Success Stories

Here we present a few Success Stories of satisfied Palo Customers.

Video Success Stories are available here.

Web-based solution for the corporate-wide annual budget planning, Clariant International AG

Clariant International AG Clariant is a worldwide leader in specialty chemicals, with headquarters in Muttenz near Basel/Switzerland. Clariant is represented on five continents by more than 100 group companies and employs approx. 18,000 people. In 2008, Clariant achieved a turnover of approx CHF 8.1 billion which equals around € 5.4 billion. The business is organized in four divisions: Textile, leather & paper chemicals, pigments & additives, masterbatches and process chemicals. Clariant caters almost exclusively to the manufacturing industry, e.g. automobile, construction, electronics, cosmetics, synthetics, crop protection, pharmaceuticals or textile.

Budget Planning With Efficient Processes, Standard Life Versicherung

With Palo OLAP Server, the German Standard Life branch implemented a planning environment that facilitates their annual budget planning. The solution is also utilized to report monthly figures to the staff responsible for a cost center – allowing forecast adjustments – and for scenario planning as well as ad hoc analyses in the field of controlling. It enabled Standard Life to accelerate their planning processes and improve data quality tremendously.

Funds Management Reporting and Analysis, Lloyd Fonds

Lloyd Shipping, a division of Lloyd Fonds AG, implemented a reporting application based on Palo OLAP Server and Palo Worksheet Server for the funds management of the world‘s first open ship fund, for which Lloyd Fonds AG acts as investment adviser. The Business Intelligence solution is utilized to analyze extensive detail information on ships and fund. Sales Department, Executive Board and Committees, Accounting Department and also business partners to some extent receive user specific reports and analyses regularly. This ensures transparency in all departments and saves time in searching for and processing information.

International Group Reporting, Dürr Group

Dürr Systems GmbH The Dürr Group is present in 21 countries. Corporate Controlling in Stuttgart has implemented a Best-of-Breed-solution for their group reporting automating data flows for planning, reporting and consolidation. One of the key components is Palo OLAP Server which is used to project the P&L of the profit centers up-to-date for the current month. The use of Palo saves considerable efforts both in gathering and processing data as well as making structural adjustments in the planning and reporting process.

Web-Reporting with Balanced Scorecard, Compass Group Deutschland GmbH

Compass Group GmbH The Compass Group Deutschland GmbH controls its decentralized organization units via a Balanced Scorecard solution, which can be accessed by all operational managers and the executive board via the Web. The electronic BSC is based on Palo OLAP Server and Palo Worksheet Server, which consolidate and analyze SAP data and data from other source systems. Approx. 925 users work with the reliable and stable web application. The universal reporting tool makes current developments in the entire organization transparent.

Scorecard Sales Performance, Nycomed Deutschland GmbH

The pharmaceutical company Nycomed Deutschland GmbH implemented with Palo and Worksheet Server a web application that makes corporate-wide defined KPIs available to measure the sales performance in form of scorecards.

Worksheet-Server and Palo at ALTANA Pharma Germany

Altana ALTANA Pharma Germany has sucessfully implemented a Worksheet-Server and the open source database Palo scorecard based solution targeting the enhancement of the sales performance. ALTANA's "Selling Excellence Initiative" analyses the effectivness and efficiency of the sales areas, allowing to compare the results with the competition as well as within ALTANA. Here you can read the complete success-story (PDF).

Open Source OLAP for Controlling: DIHK chooses Worksheet-Server and Palo

DIHK The Deutsche Industrie- und Handelskammertag e.V. (DIHK), the head organisation of the German Chambers of Commerce Abroad, uses Worksheet Server and Palo as a centralised controlling cockpit for their chambers. 120 organisations in 80 countries are online connected with Berlin through Palo. More Infos can be found here.

Business Intelligence with Worksheet-Server at Novartis and Sandoz

At Novartis Austria the Worksheet-Server is the basis for a Business Intelligence solution named "Pharma Cockpit". At the Austria-based affiliate Sandoz Austria Worksheet-Server serves as the basis for the "Sandoz Cockpit".

Successful in medium-size enterprises: GEA Wiegand chooses Worksheet-Server

When it comes to centralizing spreadsheet models, the Worksheet server delivers its efficiency advantages not only to the large corporations, but also in medium-size enterprises. Recent example is the GEA Wiegand GmbH in Karlsruhe/Germany. There the Worksheet server is used successfully for computation and design of plants for the chemical and pharmaceutical industries, the food industry and for the environmental industry.

Bayer HealthCare AG chooses Worksheet-Server for IT-Cost Controlling

Bayer Bayer HealthCare AG decided to implement its global IT-Cost-Reporting with Jedox Worksheet-Server. The new controlling system allows to collect data via the web-browser and also allows OLAP-based analysis of IT costs and cost allocation. The new system will be used in the divisions Animal Health, Biological Products, Consumer Care, Diagnostica und Pharma with 113 affiliates in 69 countries world-wide.