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“I quickly saw how easy it was to run my own analyses. It was nothing short of superb."
David McKeown, Controller, Bell Tea | 5/22/2008 9:47 AM | | 8/27/2008 |
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“Decision-making is faster and more accurate, and decisions are based on what we know rather than what we think we know.”
Dennis Jones, Director, Burger King
| 5/22/2008 9:49 AM | | 8/26/2008 |
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“Improved information availability has allowed us to reduce our wastage by 0.5%. When you deal with the volumes we do, that translates into major savings.”
Dennis Jones, Director, Burger King
| 5/22/2008 9:49 AM | | 8/25/2008 |
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"With iQ4bis our teams now have access to information that guides them in developing and validating strategies to meet our objectives."
Chris O’Connor, SVP Operations, Dreyfus Investments
| 5/22/2008 9:50 AM | | 8/24/2008 |
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"Take me off all your distribution lists for your reports. I don’t need them anymore. iQ4bis gives me everything I need." Vice Chairman, Dreyfus Investments
| 5/22/2008 9:52 AM | | 8/23/2008 |
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“Now that we’ve used iQ4bis to see the reality, we’ve tightened our operation notably. We’ve been able to reduce our aged inventory from 40‑50% to 15%."
Ian Jansen, Sales Director, Express Data | 5/22/2008 9:53 AM | | 8/22/2008 |
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"iQ4bis sits on top of our multiple data sources so we can look at sales, or eventually inventory, procurement, financial, and other information, no matter what the ERP source.”
Glenn Pinnel, Applications Director, Alpharma | 5/22/2008 9:54 AM | | 8/21/2008 |
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“ERP is a great tool for transactional processing and linking operational areas like manufacturing, supply chain, and finance. But it does a terrible job with reporting. iQ4bis unlocks the data for your users so they can move the business forward."
Glenn Pinnel, Applications Director, Alpharma
| 5/22/2008 9:55 AM | | 8/20/2008 |
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“The BI application we selected had to be cost-effective, integrate cleanly with JDE and easy to operate so that our management team could find the information they were looking for. iQ4bis was installed and validated in two weeks.” Ron Myshka, Vice President Information Services, E.A.Sween
| 5/22/2008 9:55 AM | | 8/19/2008 |
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“iQ4bis lets me quickly analyze my data and make a decision about what and how I manufacture through the day. For each hour that goes by that I can’t get data, that’s an hour that I can’t get my manufacturing group started on what they need to build.”
Marlys Clay, VP of Vendor Managed Inventory, First Look Studios | 5/22/2008 9:56 AM | | 8/18/2008 |
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“With improved visibility, our production managers can fine tune weekly production staffing requirements, saving us roughly 15% in salaries and related costs in the first year. We quadrupled our productivity in two years. We see iQ4bis as a major contributor to our improvement.”
Craig Gonsewski, Controller, Franke Foodservice Systems, Inc.
| 5/22/2008 9:57 AM | | 8/17/2008 |
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“We now use iQ4bis views for production forecasting, profitability analysis, credit analysis, sales analysis, sales vs budget and vs forecasting, delivery confirmation, and order fulfillment analysis."
Mark Palmer, Business Analyst, Frucor | 5/22/2008 9:58 AM | | 8/16/2008 |
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“I don’t believe we could have been as successful with our initiative to decrease E&O inventory if it weren’t for visibility provided by iQ4bis."
Fred Berndt, Manager of Sales Analysis and Financial Planning, MFC Cannon | 5/22/2008 9:58 AM | | 8/13/2008 |
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"Looking at key performance indicators through iQ4bis let’s us deal with situations as they happen, instead of finding out months too late that we’re not focused on the right products, or on the right sales trends.”
Fred Berndt, Manager of Sales Analysis and Financial Planning, MFC Cannon
| 5/22/2008 10:01 AM | | 8/13/2008 |
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“iQ4bis gives us a viable and intuitive business intelligence solution that managers and decision-makers alike can use to make more informed decisions."
Eva Chow, Senior Project Manager, Medtronic | 5/22/2008 10:00 AM | | 8/13/2008 |
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"With iQ4bis we have our fingers on the pulse of the business allowing us to easily manage our sales staff, reduce wastage, and improve the servicing of our customer inventory.”
Eva Chow, Senior Project Manager, Medtronic
| 5/22/2008 10:03 AM | | 8/13/2008 |
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“Not only can we access the data, but we can transform it into intelligent business information. iQ4bis helps us understand customer buying patterns and analyze trends and hot spots in our business fast and accurately.”
Craig Laurent, IT Technical Manager, Merck Sharp and Dohme
| 5/22/2008 10:03 AM | | 8/13/2008 |
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“I’ve managed business units with lots of different types of reporting systems. The power and ease of getting the information you need is better with iQ4bis than any of the others.”
Richard Hays, CIO, Nau
| 5/22/2008 10:04 AM | | 8/13/2008 |
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“With the information we get from iQ4bis, we can move quickly to put together action plans, make adjustments, and put a fix in place.”
Jolynn Ovington, GM Merchandising and Planning, Nau | 5/22/2008 10:04 AM | | 8/13/2008 |
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“The ability to more clearly understand and control our inventory movement is crucial for containing costs and enabling revenues.”
Nigel Deacon, Application Development Director, Taser International
| 5/22/2008 10:05 AM | | 8/13/2008 |
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“Report generation used to take us two to three man days per month; now it’s less than a half-day. We’re saving that expense and our line managers are more productive and more responsive to changing business requirements.”
Nigel Deacon, Application Development Director, Taser International | 5/22/2008 10:05 AM | | 8/13/2008 |
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“Interestingly, iQ4bis helped us understand where our data collection could be improved. We’ve identified areas where we’d like to know more about our business, and are adding new fields in the database to provide greater granularity of detail for more powerful analyses.”
Nigel Deacon, Application Development Director, Taser International | 5/22/2008 10:06 AM | | 8/13/2008 |
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"iQ4bis has bridged our gap between individualized data queries and massive pivot tables in providing meaningful metrics in a simple, visually appealing, yet robust application. It is the first tool deployed at Imation to genuinely have senior leadership, mid-level management and subject matter experts working from the same presentation of consistent data."
Kevin Kieger, PMP, Imation IT Applications Manager
| 6/27/2008 3:32 PM | | 8/13/2008 |