Noetix Brings Data to Life at Onyx EMS

November 16, 2011

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Onyx EMS employees make faster business decisions with operational reporting from Noetix

REDMOND, Wash.--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Noetix Corp., a world-class provider of business intelligence (BI) software and services for enterprise applications, today announced that Onyx EMS is using Noetix^® Platform to provide fast and easy reporting and dashboards to help the company meet strategic objectives.

“With Noetix I have information in a matter of seconds,” said Ken McIntosh, MES Administrator at Onyx EMS. “It allows me to include data from different databases and combine them into the views without having to look in multiple places. We're able to see data we've been collecting for years finally come to life.”

Onyx EMS, a manufacturer of products for medical, communications and industrial applications, found itself in the enviable position of experiencing several years of double-digit growth. Onyx decided it was time to conduct an intensive assessment of its business intelligence reporting structure, and to make some changes to prepare for the future.

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“There wasn't much room to be creative or to elaborate on the details of requested data,” said McIntosh. “Maybe you could add a column here, or you could do a comparison there, but we didn't even really know at the time what we were missing.”

Onyx determined it was time to overhaul and improve the company’s data access systems and kicked off an internal business intelligence initiative. The initial goal was to enable end users to create their own reports to elevate and extend the life of the company’s dated Oracle ERP system (until an upgrade could be completed), and to integrate Oracle data with all the non-Oracle databases.

Onyx purchased NoetixViews^® for Oracle E-Business Suite, plus the Noetix Platform and Noetix^® Dashboard solutions and were up and running within a week of implementation.

Onyx’s IT team was then able to leverage NoetixViews to build reports that mapped to strategic objectives such as cutting defects to customers in half, increasing sales and streamlining their new product introduction process. Onyx’s software and report developer, Barbara Smith, created a multi-layered dashboard with gauges that show detailed production stats used to manage many of the company’s more complex assemblies. These dashboards are located on every employee’s computer desktop.

Today, nearly every one of Onyx’s 260 employees access Noetix to obtain the information they require to do their jobs. IT has created more than 500 different reports, 100 of which are used daily or weekly by employees. Approximately 2,600 reports are run on a monthly basis.

“We know that Noetix has allowed us to be a more efficient organization,” said McIntosh. “The employees who used to spend hours a day pulling reports have been able to take on many new projects because they can now access information instantly without help from IT.” In fact, Onyx conducted a survey asking users how much time they think that using Noetix reports has saved them and the results total more than one full-time employee.

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About Noetix

Noetix provides instant operational reporting and packaged analytics for Oracle Applications. For nearly 20 years, Noetix has helped customers worldwide to quickly and cost-effectively access the enterprise application data necessary for critical decision-making. Noetix’s proven technology is being used by 1,500 industry-leading customers including: Cummins, Starbucks, Toshiba, Welch’s, and Visa. The company is headquartered in Redmond, Wash., with international operations in London and Hyderabad, India.

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