We need flexibility and agility. We need to be able to respond to regulatory changes and to market demands quickly and efficiently. That’s what the TimeXtender/Qlik Sense combination gives us.

The constant fine-tuning of the business requires that we have a manageable and agile tool where we can quickly and easily see, understand and tweak the development everywhere. I don’t have major technical abilities within programming. But even with my abilities, you can learn to use TimeXtender. Therefore, we can now operate our business intelligence solution in the finance department instead of the IT department. This is a huge advantage because, as accountants, we have a natural eye for what information the business can benefit from being able to see and then investigate further. It is easy and straightforward.

The time that passes from when a need arises until a solution to the need is ready is very important so that we can actually assist management and colleagues with relevant answers fast enough when they have an enquiry. The switch to TimeXtender’s solution has meant a significant improvement because we can dive down into the figures and details ourselves. TimeXtender’s structure means that we can also see and understand the basis for the figures we are looking at.

TimeXtender’s solution means that we are now much better able to optimize our business. We can quickly locate the key figures enabling us to make the right decisions in time. It has given us a greater degree of flexibility as we now have the power over our own data. Very rarely do we now use external consultants, because our own controller – after receiving efficient training with TimeXtender – now masters 90% of what we use the solution for.

One of the first major tasks the TimeXtender consultants helped us with – and which has turned out to be very valuable for us – was the preparatory work of defining the categories of ‘customer’ – because the individual customer numbers are crucial for creating transparency both to our suppliers – TV providers and Copydan Verdens TV (that administers the copyright for distribution of Danish and international TV channels) – as well as local cable service providers, who are our customers.

Today we are using the same ERP system in 9 out of 15 countries. We use TimeXtender to configure the “data cube” and, afterwards, for moving data from the ERP system to the frontend system Targit. And it really is a fantastic tool for this task because it makes it so much easier and faster to configure data cubes compared to traditional programming which often requires consultant assistance.

Previously, extracting and converting data for our Targit BI system was a major and complicated task. But now, when we use TimeXtender for this task, it only takes me a few minutes each time. And this is true of all the other tasks, where we have to extract and transfer data between different IT applications.

TimeXtender has become an essential tool in our day-to-day business operations. Using the data warehouse and OLAP cubes, we have an ongoing overview of how our business is faring in all 61 pharmacies.

It used to take days for us to create accurate company wide and cross country business unit reports, but now it would be more like a few hours. The time saved really is that much.

By using data warehouse automation we succeeded with a very small team to develop an agile, future-proof BI landscape. Without automation this wasn’t imaginable!

I am first and foremost impressed with the rapid development process and the subsequent reduction in time to market that we have been able to achieve through using TimeXtender. I have been responsible for many BI-projects in the past, but I have never before experienced these kind of productivity gains using so few resources. TimeXtender’s Discovery Hub® is agile and simple to use and corrections and adjustments are dealt in a speedy and efficient manner. The fact that the underlying code being generated is identical regardless of the consultant used, will save us a lot in reduced maintenance costs going forward.

Without Discovery Hub® we weren’t able to get a complete picture of what was going on in these neighbourhoods or get any insight into the effects of our work there.

It was a matter of finding the right tool for the job: a solution that would make it easy and fast to get our BI up and running.

We can see data, analyze it and add fields without relying on IT support to make changes. Since we are not IT people, having a sufficient level of autonomy to see what we need to see, to add, modify and to model new things, that’s crucial.

TimeXtender is so simple and automated, it’s flexible and agile, it’s quick to adjust, quick to publish, and it is always online, even when we’re working behind the system and doing some changes.

TimeXtender has enabled me to put technology at the heart of PEI’s business, to change the way we compete and operate by providing deeper understanding and engagement with our customers.