Florida’s Natural Growers, Inc is the largest citrus cooperative in the state of Florida and the second largest orange juice producer in the country, behind Tropicana. The cooperative comprises 13 grower organizations that represent more than 1,000 farmers and their motto is to do best and produce premium quality orange juice from the tree to your glass.
Challenge
Scott Kapocsi, Senior Systems Application Developer at Florida’s Natural Growers, Inc. shares his perspective on the challenges addressed by Dimensional Insight’s end-to end business intelligence (BI) platform, Diver Platform (Diver). Florida’s Natural replaced their paper-based reporting and analysis system, vastly improved their analysis capabilities, and significantly reduced the burden on IS by implementing Diver.
Other previous BI solutions were extremely hard to administer, they required a substantial amount of time to implement, and the price was extreme. Dimensional Insight fulfilled our needs, the solution could be developed quickly at a reasonable cost, and they didn’t have to invest time in SQL training.
Additional challenges also include:
- Printer platform required constant upgrading as requests for sales related information grew
- Paper based reporting was cumbersome, expensive and unproductive
- Growing demand for new reporting and analytics applications platform
Solution:
Their standard sales reporting system was robust, but we were constantly having to upgrade the HP 9000s as the sales department grew. People were running reports to retrieve just a few numbers at a time. For example, they would create a hard copy report to see what, when, and how many products a broker sold, and then throw out the paper. Now, with Diver, the sales department can answer those quick questions online without slowing down the entire system by using the HP 9000s. UBS quickly recognized that other departments would benefit from the functionality of Diver.”
Thankfully UBS came up with solutions addressing their problems.
- Provide powerful data manipulation capabilities
- Deliver an easy-to-use solution offering a zero-footprint interface for broad adoption
- Access reports, charts and analytical applications via a single point of entry
- Replaced paper-based reports with self-service reporting and analytics platform
- Enhance the budget analysis process
- Free IS to focus on mission critical initiatives instead of report generation