Grupo WTorre Supports Management's Decision-Making with Business Intelligence Tool, Ensuring Uniform, Reliable, and Consistent Data
 
 

Grupo WTorre Supports Management's Decision-Making with Business Intelligence Tool, Ensuring Uniform, Reliable, and Consistent Data

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With more than 30 years of experience, Grupo WTorre (WTorre Group) is established as one of the most important corporate conglomerates in the Brazilian civil-construction and real-estate sectors. The company has completed construction encompassing more than 5 million square meters for more than 220 projects, within and outside of Brazil. Its major projects include the new Palmeira’s Arena, Centro Empresarial Senado (one of the largest business centers in Latin America, currently under construction in Rio de Janeiro) and the WTorre JK complex (which includes the Santander Tower and the future JK Iguatemi luxury shopping mall).

WTorre needed a system to automate and standardize analytical reports regarding its projects' physical and budgetary progress to avoid misinformation caused by each business unit manually generating a variety of reports.

With the adoption of Oracle Business Intelligence Suite, Enterprise Edition, WTorre can secure analytical reports and comparisons through one, highly secure tool. Today, managers and directors have a single, unified view of analytical reports and comparisons about the company’s civil construction project planning and execution.

 
 

 
 

Challenges

A word from Grupo WTorre

  • "Oracle Business Intelligence Suite, Enterprise Edition ensures that our managers and directors will have quick and consistent analytical reports and comparisons on which to base decisions when planning and executing civil construction projects." – Paulo André Garcia de Souza, Chief Information Officer, Grupo WTorre

  • Offer a single view of physical and budgetary project status reports and comparisons to ensure uniform information
  • Transform data into strategic information to support executive decision-making during civil construction project planning and execution
  • Provide autonomy to the business departments, enabling them to generate and alter reports without needing to involve IT staff

Solutions

Oracle Product and Services

  • Worked with Oracle Partner Ninecon to implement Oracle Business Intelligence Suite, Enterprise Edition, gaining the ability to see real-time project progress, financial information, supply data, and more, thus improving construction management
  • Enabled comparative reports between two civil construction projects to provide managers with a reference of time expended and market expectations
  • Guaranteed analytical information uniformity regarding costs, deadlines, and construction execution for the entire company, since data is generated and concentrated on a single system—eliminating the previous manually-intensive report generation process
  • Raised the security level of analytical reports and information that is circulated through the company, thanks to access control, based on distinct user profiles offered through Oracle Business Intelligence Suite, Enterprise Edition
  • Ensured independence for WTorre's business departments to generate or modify reports and comparisons—eliminating the need for reporting help from the IT department
  • Obtained reports on project budgetary processes, thanks to integration with the company's existing Oracle Project Management solution, which enables analyzing projects that have exceeded their budgets and that have a positive balance
  • Generated reports on supplies, civil construction materials, machines, and equipment—including indicators on closed orders, suppliers involved, and each material’s acquisition time, enabling the responsible department to improve material and tool provisioning timing for planned and in-progress projects—a critical aspect of any project
  • Provided control panels displaying payments and comparisons between expenses and budgets for nearly 30 business department managers and directors

Why Oracle

“In addition to being totally compatible with our existing Oracle E-Business Suite, we chose Oracle Business Intelligence Suite, Enterprise Edition because it is in the Gartner Group’s upper right-hand quadrant," said Paulo André Garcia de Souza , chief information officer at Grupo WTorre. “This means that the tool is powerful, visionary, and a market leader, which aligns with our company’s policy of innovation.”

Partner

Grupo WTorre worked with Oracle Partner Ninecon to implement Oracle Business Intelligence Suite, Enterprise Edition in just eight months. 

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