The Petrochemical Company : Multi Billion Dollar Diversified Producer Of Petrochemicals And Advanced Synthetic Resin

As we discuss the possibility of emerging into business intelligence software we must keep in mind the overall purpose of using any type of software is to reach strategic goals in order to increase market shares. I will discuss how business intelligence software will allow us to meet those strategic goals. We will establish what type of information and analysis capabilities will be available once this business intelligence software is implemented. We will discuss hardware and system software that will be required to run specific business intelligence software. Lastly, I will give a brief synopsis on three vendors (IBM, Microsoft Microsoft and Oracle) that are dominating the business information software

The IT staffs were certain that the existing SAP software will provide all necessary computer support. They believed that even if the SAP would not fit their business processes precisely, it may be an investment that provides greater long-term flexibility and better solutions to the company’s problem.

Dashboard is a data visualization tool that displays the current status of metrics and key performance indicators (KPIs) for an enterprise. Also, dashboard consolidates and arranges numbers, metrics and sometimes performance scorecards on a single screen. They may be tailored for a specific role and display metrics targeted for a single point of view or department. The essential features of a dashboard product include a customizable interface and the ability to pull real-time data from multiple sources. An Executive Dashboard gives a clear picture of the data and the insights visually to the corporate executives.

In detail, a strong resistance will come from some of the operating companies that already have “their own small-scale business intelligence applications in place”. These companies may not see any valid reason or advantage to switch and implement a new software system. Furthermore, another obstacle that SYSCO might confront will be the objection from the existing managers and IT experts averse and incapable of using a new software with different functions. Moreover, the forthcoming implementation time of the BI software proposed by the Assistant Vice President of Technology and Applications Twila Day might raise doubts and concerns among management as well as

This figure illustrates the future of BI for CTC. Independent data sources have been incorporated into a single BI system, within a global data model. All data will be loaded into corporate EDW via ETL. The EDW will feed the financial data mart for enterprise performance management, so business users will be able to conduct planning and budgeting functions. On the right side of the EDW, BI specialists will assist in organizing data marts into four categories: Supply Chain, Vendor,

Loblaw used to save store and vendor information in different types of Legacy systems, for example, the vendors’ sales data is stored in the system called Bi-query, and the vendor stores payment records can be found in Customer Information Control System (CICS). However, given the size and complexity of Loblaw, it is hard to remain competitive without a system that can integrate information from all business areas and provide real-time information updates of critical information so that an entire enterprise may function as one. Therefore, Loblaw starts to transfer store and vendor data from Legacy systems, into a more efficient and powerful system called SAP.

The article of discussion is been published in The Economist on 7th Feb 2015, it’s about the Brazil’s oil industry’s major player Petrobras ( 'Pitfall at Petrobras ', 2015). Petrobras is tangled in scandals money laundering, commissions paid to politicians for favour’s, and targeted for artificially inflating the company real vale from the investor to raise debit which eventually led for the resignation of the only women CEO of oil an company .Will the change in such top ranking official fix the problems of this oil giant and how will it effects on its economy, global image and future investments, in such a volatile market were the price of oil is highly dependent on the consumer demand internationally. Real change in company’s culture & strong Global leadership skilled CEO (Expert power) is needed to bring the change.

As we discuss the possibility of emerging into business intelligence software we must keep in mind the overall purpose of using any type of software is to reach strategic goals in order to increase market shares. I will discuss how business intelligence software will allow us to meet those strategic goals. We will establish what type of information and analysis capabilities will be available once this business intelligence software is implemented. We will discuss hardware and system software that will be required to run specific business intelligence software. Lastly, I will give a brief synopsis on three vendors (IBM, Microsoft Microsoft and Oracle) that are dominating the business information software industry today.

In the organizational layer, DLL has a global business intelligence and global analytics team. The business intelligence team’s focus is data warehousing, dashboard designing and providing real-time data companywide for all the countries, which can be queried via SQL or Hyperion. Given that data often needs clean up and analysis to better understand its trends, the business intelligence team has created a Virtual Reporting Tool which is accessible by all members of the company and is meant to be the only source of the truth. This tool provides live reports and dashboards which are used for monitoring purposes and for analysis. On the other hand, the global analytics team’s focus is

Carl Zeiss Group wanted a future-proof basis for integrated processes and to develop additional synergies. Participating in the SAP Ramp-Up program and using key SAP NetWeaver platform components, the firm made the transition to my SAP ERP solution in just 4 months.

This is a wholly owned division of Oxy and is a leading manufacturer of polyvinyl chloride (PVC) resins, chlorine and caustic soda in America. These products form an important part of a variety of products such as plastics, pharmaceuticals and water treatment chemicals. The manufacturing facilities are mainly concentrated in US, Canada and Chile.

Tactical dashboards: They track departmental processes and projects and emphasize analysis more than monitoring or management. It has intermediate time horizons, uses mostly internal information, and has structured decision process. They display results in a business intelligence (BI) to monitor a projector process that they manage; it uses OLAP tools, parameterized reports, advanced visualization tools, and scenario modeling tools to encourage users to explore information to identify trends and ascertain the root causes of problems or issues and let them create plans that contain multiple scenarios. This dashboards use workflow tools to make users share their findings and request approval, also monitoring and auditing tools to track users adoption and

The Pacific Oil Company a well-established oil company with an assorted diversified product line including “Vinyl Chloride Monomer (VCM)”. (Lewicki, 2010, p. 583) As one of the pioneer producers of VCM, Pacific Oil cornered the market share for contracting, distributing and selling their niche product, VCM worldwide. One of Pacific’s longtime customers was Reliant Corporation. This partnership was more than a decade old and was strong. However, if Pacific Oil decided to further diversify its product line to include Polyvinyl Chloride (PVC) a VCM derivative, “it would not want to be in the position of supplying a product competitor with the raw materials to manufacture the product line, unless the formula price was extremely

A management dashboard developed with the help of SAP shows how smoothly a critical process is running at a certain point in time. Information from the dashboard helps Burtons users identify inconsistencies a problems that should be monitored more closely.

The petroleum industry includes the global processes of exploration, extraction, refining, transporting (often oil tankers and pipelines), and marketing petroleum products. The oil is used as feedstock for many chemicals, including drugs, solvents, fertilizers, pesticides and plastics. Industry is generally divided into three main components: upstream, midstream and downstream. Crossing operation usually included in a lower category.