Testimonials
Westrail 12 May 2011
Rail infrastructure operator WestNet Rail is the latest Australian company to experience the benefits of SIBA Solutions' streamlined BI methodology.
It took WestNet Rail and SIBA Solutions eight weeks to design, pilot and deploy a customised below-rail KPI reporting and analytics solution based on the QlikView BI tool.
The solution covers the critical Signals & Communications function, which includes service maintenance, fault management and active level-crossing monitoring.
WestNet Rail's IT Manager Graeme Stickland said the system had achieved very significant time and cost savings
by bringing together data from multiple sources into one reporting forum, allowing the company to analyse performance holistically across a broad asset base and diverse functional framework.
The solution provides an up-to-the minute compliance-monitoring facility to satisfy regulatory requirements.
It also takes advantage of QlikView's powerful data-in-memory and associative search capabilities to allow a more proactive response to recorded faults data.
Australian Maritime Safety Authority
Australian Maritime Safety Authority is another satisfied customer after SIBA was able to quickly deliver an asset-management solution for its Aid to Navigation assets. “We wanted to automatically synchronise the key operational aspects of asset management with the relevant financial's, at a granular level. The information generated will improve our capability to plan future investment, including making critical repair versus replace decisions, on assets with varying useful lives” said Gerry Brine, Manager, Navigation Safety.
In the current business climate demand is growing for more detailed and relevant content coverage and the pressure is on for IT divisions to more quickly provide switched-on end users with the precise analytics they need. In line with this trend SIBA Solutions appears to have positioned itself very nicely to satisfy a growing market.
Integrated Logistics
SIBA’s strengths in the busy BI space revolve around its ready-made, functional and industry-specific content templates and streamlined processes, which rely on the emerging, data-in-memory-analysis (DIMA) paradigm to ensure quick and economical solution delivery.
Director Jim Hoban said the application of DIMA-based tools such as QlikView had allowed SIBA to develop and deliver pre-configured analytical templates to clients in much quicker time than the market standard.
The value of the model has been endorsed by Mario Chetcuti, General Manager, for Integrated Logistics Company. “We needed to pull data from a myriad of different coal-chain participant sources, logically consolidate it, then present it back to them in a time-critical and user-interactive way,’’ he said. “The whole project was done in very quick time and on-budget.”
