Intelligent CIO Middle East Issue 12 | Page 21

PROJECT UPDATE BAHRAIN BAHRAIN Gulf Air, the national carrier of the Kingdom of Bahrain, establishes partnership with Finesse for the implementation of a Business Intelligence solution using Qlik, one of the products in this field. Finesse has been selected by Gulf Air as a strategic partner to define a robust Business Intelligence platform to be used across the airline and to implement enterprise-level dashboards and reports. Such platform will also perform complex scenario-based analysis, to create visualisation of data and view reports and dashboards in all forms across devices. This initiative comes as a part of Gulf Air’s IT strategy and roadmap to use Business Intelligence platform to provide better and enhanced visibility and insights on the airli ne’s operations, and Finesse with their long and successful experience in this regard will constitute a valuable input in this direction. To meet Gulf Air’s requirements for an enterprise-wide Business Analytics solution, Finesse proposed the Qlik Sense Business Intelligence tool. The Associative Data Indexing capability which enables the user to explore relationships between Data derived from various sources, highly intuitive interface, wide selection of charts, unique colour cues – all make it the most well suited platform to analyse and visualise data. UAE UAE Epicor Software Corporation, a global provider of industry-specific enterprise software to promote business growth, has announced that Zaker Trading, a one-stop-shop for specialised products and accessories in welding, lifting, safety, power tools, abrasives and other engineering-related products, has recently implemented Epicor ERP (enterprise resource planning) across all its facilities in the Middle East. The solution is enabling Zaker Trading to streamline and automate their sales, finance and manufacturing processes as well as increase visibility, transparency and information exchange across the organisation. The Epicor ERP solution includes key modules such as financial management, supply chain management and inventory management and was deployed across all Zaker Group companies in the region, bringing each business unit onto a single platform. www.intelligentcio.com INTELLIGENTCIO 21