Regal Beloit Corporation, a manufacturer of electrical and mechanical motion control products, has deployed Oracle (News - Alert) Business Intelligence Applications to “improve visibility into business operations and enhance decision-making enterprise wide,” Oracle officials say.

Headquartered in Beloit, Wisconsin, Regal Beloit is a global manufacturer maintaining facilities in North America, Asia, Europe and Australia. The company sought a business intelligence (BI) product that would help them better understand business performance across such functions as orders, sales, inventory and receivables.

In late 2007, Regal Beloit initiated a five-month BI software vendor selection and evaluation process that culminated in the selection of Oracle. Criteria included ease of integrating data from different source systems, adapters for multiple data sources, ease of customization of ETL and front-end, capability of business users to develop reports and dashboards and having pre-built content for multiple functions.

 

In November TMC’s Anamika Singh reported that businesses using Oracle CRM On Demand are now able to get automated access to a business-to-business resource thanks to the new Jigsaw for Oracle CRM On Demand.

 

“With this new offering,” she wrote, “users can automatically export contact and company records into their customer relationship management (CRM) environment.”

Regal Beloit initiated its deployment of the packaged, role-based Oracle Business Intelligence Applications in approximately 75 days from start to finish. The company’s IT staff estimated that building a custom BI product would have taken them more than a calendar year.

Built on Oracle Business Intelligence Suite Enterprise Edition Plus, Oracle’s BI applications use the platform’s hot-pluggable capabilities to extend intelligence capabilities to a range of data sources including the Oracle E-Business Suite, Oracle’s PeopleSoft Enterprise, Oracle’s Siebel CRM, and SAP (News - Alert).

Regal Beloit’s BI system incorporates data from disparate sources including two instances of the Oracle E-Business Suite, specifically the Oracle Advanced Supply Chain Planning module, SAP, legacy applications, and flat files.