PERCENTIX HELPS TOSHIBA AMERICA ELECTRONIC COMPONENTS EARN INFOWORLD 100 AWARD FOR NEW BUSINESS INTELLIGENCE SYSTEM
Toshiba Redefines IT As "Innovation Technology"
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November 2007 Percentix client Toshiba America Electronic Components, Inc. (TAEC)*, a technology leader that collaborates with other leading companies to create breakthrough designs, announced in November that the company has been selected as a winner of a 2007 InfoWorld 100 award for its newly implemented business intelligence system.
The annual awards from IDG InfoWorld honor projects that demonstrate the most creative use of cutting-edge technologies to further their business goals. To be considered, projects must stretch beyond the typical, off-the-shelf solution, and must use multiple technologies in innovative ways to serve well-defined business goals.
“Percentix continues to deploy world class solutions that reflect the latest best practices within the Enterprise Performance Management space,” said Thomas Antunez, CEO of Percentix. “We are very proud of the work we have completed with our business partner, TAEC. Moreover, this engagement demonstrates how collaboration between consultancies (Business Objects) can add tremendous value to our clients.”
To develop the new BI system, TAEC initiated a strategic redesign of its entire business reporting system, partnering with industry leaders to develop an end-to-end solution. The first phase of the system supports intelligence gathering over TAEC's integrated financial and business systems, and aligns information gathering with corporate strategy. The next phase provides insight into daily business issues and highlights exceptions to business metrics for the executive team.
"This multi-vendor business intelligence solution puts Toshiba at the forefront of technology companies by integrating industry best practices, resulting in world class capabilities in the areas of database structure, access to information, analytics, dashboarding and metrics-based alerts," said Stephen Marlow, executive vice president for TAEC.
To achieve an integrated solution, Business Objects and Percentix worked with IT teams from TAEC and Toshiba Semiconductor Company headquarters to design, develop and implement a new BI solution integrating Hyperion business performance management tools with Business Objects enterprise reporting and performance management tools, incorporating data from Oracle 11i applications with other business data sources. The new system balances EPM-based reporting with interactive dashboarding based on TAEC's corporate metrics to achieve an exception-based, seamless and intuitive reporting system.
"We're pleased that InfoWorld has recognized our innovative BI system and our strategic approach to identifying and measuring critical metrics to improve enterprise performance," said Malcolm Wood, director, business analysis, strategic planning, for TAEC. "Customizable dashboards hold the promise of improving performance and managing resources. Our comprehensive performance management strategy also includes consistent and timely monitoring of both suppliers and business partners."
"Whether ushering legacy systems into the agile era or revolutionizing how their companies leverage technology to meaningful ends, this year's winners are both inspiration and proof that striking a new path in IT can reap deep organizational rewards," said InfoWorld senior editor Jason Snyder.
About Percentix, Inc.
Percentix, Inc. is the preeminent provider of Enterprise Performance Management (EPM) solutions that greatly improve the way companies around the world plan and analyze their businesses. The firm specializes in the diagnosis, design, delivery and deployment of best-in-class EPM services that significantly improve organizations’ performance to proactively compete in today’s ever-changing economy. Percentix has performed more than 150 EPM-related implementations for world-leading companies in a wide range of industries, including high technology, finance, healthcare, telecommunications, retail and more. Percentix is headquartered in Irvine, CA with a second office in Denver, CO. To learn more, please visit www.percentix.com
About TAEC
Through proven commitment, lasting relationships and advanced, reliable electronic components, Toshiba enables its customers to create market-leading designs. Toshiba is the heartbeat within product breakthroughs from OEMs, ODMs, CMs, distributions and fabless chip companies worldwide. A committed electronic components leader, Toshiba designs and manufactures high-quality flash memory-based storage solutions, discrete devices, displays, advanced materials, medical tubes, custom SoCs/ASICs, digital multimedia and imaging products, microcontrollers and wireless components that make possible today's leading cell phones, MP3 players, cameras, medical devices, automotive electronics and more.
Toshiba America Electronic Components, Inc. is an independent operating company owned by Toshiba America, Inc., a subsidiary of Toshiba Corporation, Japan's largest semiconductor manufacturer and the world's fourth largest semiconductor manufacturer (iSuppli, World's Top Semiconductor Supplier Rankings in 2006). For additional company and product information, please visit http://www.toshiba.com/taec/