„Since we have been using biGENiUS, we manage the development 100% internally. We did not only save a lot of money but, having built everything ourselves, we gained in efficiency as we are able to adapt any user requests right away. Unlike in the past, users are now coming to us frequently asking for more features. biGENiUS helped us show our users the benefits of a proper reporting tool. A lot of tasks that used to be manual are now replaced by reports.“
TiRus International SA is a wholly owned subsidiary of VSMPO-AVISMA Corporation, the world’s largest integrated producer of titanium and its alloy. As such, TiRus is a key strategic partner of leading companies in high-technology sectors like aerospace, aero-engines, energy (including nuclear power industry), chemical engineering, ship building, medicine, etc. To service the demand created by exporting 70% of the titanium, the company produces for more than 300 companies in 48 countries worldwide.
In 2012 the small IT team based in Lausanne started its first DWH project from scratch. None of the two team members had previous experience or background in analytics. Supported by Trivadis, the first BI reports were provided shortly. Along with the increasing adoption of provided reports by users across the entire company, more and more new requirements from business units followed and reqiured delivery within shorter and shorter deadlines. Thus, the next logical step was to enhance the exisiting BI platform, but this time using biGENiUS for data warehouse automation.
Within a few months after the initial presentation of biGENIUS in January 2017, the training of the IT team and a POC were successfully completed. Thus, the development of a brand new operational data store (ODS) and an entreprise data warehouse (EDW) started. In data modelling, the development team used star schema. Thanks to the architecture blueprints intergrated in biGENIUS, instead of tackling with technical details, the small BI team could focus on implementing the business logic and providing the desired reports to business users timely. Further, biGENIUS allowed customization e.g. data mappings, incremental loads could be managed fully in the tool, so no manual development after the process of code generation was needed.
Even before the Go-Live of the new BI platform, benefits of automation in the development could be observed e.g. significantly lower costs both in development and maintainance along with shorter time-to-market for a number of new features. Additionally, biGENiUS provided the team with ready-to-use customizable blueprints for data warehousing and a semantic layer for data modelling. This enabled the BI developers of TiRus to implement a best quality data management solution even without long-year experience in data analytics.