Essbase Implementation

The Client:
The client is the world’s largest bedding provider. The company develops, manufactures and markets mattresses, adjustable bases and pillows as well as other sleep and relaxation products. Combining a proud history and groundbreaking innovation, the company holds some of the most highly recognized brands in the industry.

The Challenge:
The client acquired another large bedding provider in 2012 and had to bridge the gap and merge into a single company with wide reporting needs. They therefore faced challenges when combining two separate hierarchies for the Dealer/Customer and Sales. Through detailed design sessions with the client, there were several measures of success that were identified:
– Single source of truth and reporting needs
– Simplify the Extract Transform and Load (ETL) process and reduce processing times to load data from several data source into Essbase
– Getting both companies’ resources up to speed with process change and maintenance
– Modifying all the dimension change and downstream process for all 30 cube
– Managing the sales organization
– Document, provide training and transfer knowledge to administrators