Leading Energy Producer & distributor, USA

1. Leading Energy Producer & distributor, USA Cognos Upgrade Entergy Business Benefits Business Situation • Hexaware’s comprehensive Redesign and Migration services helped the company in Decrease to the IT maintenance cost in the target environment • An integrated reporting environment and seamless analysis of data between different layers of the reporting environment • Improvement to the overall performance of the reports • Access to report data with lesser number of manual operations • Accelerated archive of all required report files into .PDF which helped in the elimination of archive reports from reporting environment • The Financial reporting environment was CognosVerision7.x • There was a need to migrate to the newer version because of the risk of running an unsupported version. • Duplicate and void templates had to be eliminated • Demand for Redesign and Optimization of reports by leveraging new functionalities in Cognosseries 8.x Solution • Consolidation of report templates which helped users in retrieving information from lesser number of report files to that existed in the current environment • Elimination of redundant and dormant objects thereby setting up a clean and error-free target environment • Setup of sophisticated ad-hoc reporting layers for users to perform analysis between multidimensional to relational source systems • Hexaware used its unique Pillar III framework leveraging the solution accelerator tool BIMA (Business Intelligence Metadata Analyzer) during analysis thereby eliminating duplication and redundancy, and reducing the effort and time for generating and maintaining reports • Business reports archive to .PDF for 5 years using Hexaware’s Report Archive Application Statistics Technology • OLAP Tools – Cognos 7.1, Cognos 7.4, Cognos 8.3 • Databases – Oracle 10g • Source Systems – PeopleSoft 8.3 Statistics • Total Reports : 201 • Models-packages- 15 • Team size : 8