Cut Data Warehouse TCO by 50% and Simplified SAP Data. Ask insightsoftware
insightsoftware, a global leader in financial, accounting, and operational analytics, is transforming how businesses use SAP data. The result: data-driven decision-making, stronger forecasting, and business growth while reducing data warehouse Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) by 50%.
Unlock Financial & Supply Chain Insights Without IT Dependency
Traditional SAP reporting and forecasting require IT-heavy data extraction and complex analytical tools, slowing down access to insights. Angles for SAP, an insightsoftware solution, eliminates these barriers with a self-service platform that:
- Processes high volumes of SAP data for fast access to business insights.
- Applies predictive analytics and business logic to refine forecasting.
- Stores structured insights in a data warehouse for on-demand reporting.
- Enables decision-makers to run queries and generate reports without IT reliance.
Breaking Free from Legacy Constraints
The Angles for SAP legacy database was difficult to scale and occasionally experienced inconsistent query performance. Since SAP data is built for transactions, not analytics, reporting was slow and inefficient. Also, key supply chain processes like procurement, stock control, sales, and production were siloed, limiting end-to-end visibility.
With daily data refreshes, insightsoftware needed a system that could handle multiterabyte datasets and hundreds of thousands of weekly queries at sub-second to seconds speed to meet customer SLAs. They migrated to a cloud data warehouse for better scalability and performance but faced excessive costs and scalability challenges as data grew.
Finding the Right Solution
When insightsoftware explored Yellowbrick to solve performance and scalability challenges. Skeptical of Yellowbrick’s claims of superior performance, cost efficiency, and scalability, they ran a proof of concept to confirm its capabilities
Yellowbrick delivers unparalleled data load and query performance on multi-terabyte datasets, enabling fast insights and driving prompt decisions in business-critical use cases.
- Christopher Barnes, VP of Engineering @ insightsoftware
Yellowbrick outperformed both the legacy database and the cloud data warehouse in performance and cost-efficiency, giving insightsoftware the confidence to migrate their Angles for SAP solution to Yellowbrick in AWS Cloud. The results: a transformed data infrastructure with major gains in performance, cost savings and scalability.
Key Outcomes
Yellowbrick SQL Data Platform exceeded expectations, ending performance complaints and streamlining operations. insightsoftware now runs a multi-terabyte dataset with over 200K weekly queries in sub-seconds to low-second speed, onboards more customers, and drives sustained business growth without increasing costs.
This foundation enables insightsoftware to deliver greater value to its customers by reducing costs, improving efficiency, and unlocking new revenue opportunities.
- Improved supply chain visibility to mitigate disruptions and optimize procurement.
- Aligned financial planning with real-time operational data for better cost control.
- Improved sales and revenue forecasting by integrating SAP performance metrics.
Companies using insightsoftware solution have reported:
- 40% reduction in time spent on financial reporting.
- 35% increase in forecasting accuracy compared to traditional SAP analytics methods.
- Users now have timely access to the data and expanded functionality.
Besides, insightsoftware achieved:
- 50% lower data warehouse TCO and higher scalability. Now onboarding 12x more customers at a lower cost.
- Seamless cloud deployment completed in just a few months with full control and predictable costs.
What matters most to me is whether customers are happy or complaining. If something is wrong, we hear about it quickly. Since optimizing with Yellowbrick, customers are happy, and that’s the important metric for me.
Bart Van Dongen, Director of Engineering @ insightsoftware