Siemens Digital Industries Software (DI SW) gains new collaborative insights into Profitability with Siemens GBS Commercial Services Business Intelligence suite.

Optimization and automation are two words you often hear associated with business efficiency. But just how important is it to leverage these two key ideas for your business?

Just ask Siemens DI SW. They got to see firsthand the importance of implementing a business intelligence suite to create visibility and transparency in Segment/Product performance. When Siemens DI SW first came to the GBS Commercial Services team, they were burdened with a challenging and laborious way of using excel to assist them with their Profit & Loss (P&L) portfolio.

This reporting process was time consuming with multiple manual touchpoints to blend data extracts and data crunching mostly in the form of pivot tables. Even through all of this manual hard work was being performed, data crunching and analyzing reports was still in the form of pivot tables.

Needless to say, all of the hard work for Siemens DI SW was being doubled in effort, there was a need to efficiently maximize data-driven insights. That was, until they collaborated with GBS Commercial Services to create a whole new Business Intelligence suite that assists with an efficient way of processing data and making the output more consumable and actionable.

How It All Came to Fruition

How did GBS create an analytical dashboard to showcase the product profitability for all the software that DI SW creates and sells?

GBS solution architecture focused on the live connection of data from Polaris (an Enterprise Data and Analytics Platform) and visual analytics to support strategic focused decision making.

From there, the Commercial Services team designed the transformation using Power dataflows with intelligent automatic caching of data in the background while maximizing performance.

“This project provided us with an opportunity to create insightful and lasting value for our customers. We explored various tools like Knime, Alteryx and Dataflows in the process of data transformation and selected right solution which meets data visualization and reporting needs. There was a special focus on providing insights with a fully customized user experience and the same has been recognized by DI SW. This developed intuitive and thought-provoking visuals on the Power BI platform providing transparency to make it easier for the business to see the connection between the costs it receives and services it consumes on a day-to-day basis.” - Naveen Kumsi Nagarajaiah, Functional Controlling Professional

By turning data into collaborative insights, Portfolio P&L Business Intelligence (BI) Suite allowed the business to see where and how it can influence costs providing the ultimate game changer in leveraging advanced analytic tools and technologies.

Interested in learning more about the Portfolio P&L Business Intelligence (BI) Suite? Please contact christopher.zimmerman@siemens.com or naveen.kn@siemens.com