global procurement data warehouse enhances sourcing intelligence

GLOBAL PROCUREMENT DATA WAREHOUSE

ENHANCES SOURCING INTELLIGENCE

Submitted to:Dr. Tanushri Banerjee

By Group 1:

Apurva Mittal (20141009)Bhaumik Gandhi (20141011)Riya Giri (20141058)Shikha Sah (20141066)

IGATE

• IGATE is an IT service company, headquartered in Bridgewater, New Jersey.

• The firm operates in North America, Asia, Europe, Japan and Australia, providing technology and procurement services.

• Recently on 27th April 2015, French IT group Capgemini acquired IGATE for $4bn.

• The client is a global leader in the oil & gas industry.

• The client followed an independent sourcing strategy for each of its different line of business(LOBs).

• Lack of centralized mechanism for sourcing product hampered client’s ability to negotiate effectively with its suppliers.

• To improve its sourcing process, the client decided to centralize its procurement process.

• This would help the client to improve the procurement initiatives for different LOBs.

Solution Overview

• IGATE used its Business intelligence development roadmap based on Interactive and iterative development methodology(IIDM).

• With a planned roadmap, IGATE helped the client to successfully integrate data from 35 diverse sources.

Benefits• The procurement data warehouse has provided a

single move for different sourcing initiatives undertaken by various LOBs.

• The data warehouse captures over 98% of the spend information across the organization.

• Quality of data in the data warehouse has increased the confidence in the accuracy of the data.

ETL: Informatica Power Center 7.0ETL: Extraction, Transform and Load from different heterogeneous data sources to commonly one data source

Enterprise Data Integration

Informatica Power Analyzer

Product OverviewUnified Environment

•All in one server based product

•Reduces deployment cost

•Vastly improves BI time-to-market

•Performance management system: Six sigma, Metrica Management, Time Series

Product Architecture

Oracle8i: DatabaseOracle Memory

Structures

Database Storage Architecture

Portal Management : Tibco• Portal in simpler terms is a collection of a variety of useful information into

a one-stop Web page

• Igate portal has the functionalities of Discover, Capture, Manipulate, Distribute & consult

BENEFITS• Increases customer and partner satisfaction• Improves the productivity and decision-making of employees• Decreases HR and call centre overhead• Reduces training expenses• Improves executive visibility into internal operations, supply chain, and

distribution channel activities with executive dashboards.

Web server : iPlanet 6.0• A web server is a computer that runs a computer program which

provides the above functionality • Main key performance parameters are:

– number of requests per second– latency response time in milliseconds– throughput in bytes per second

• iPlanet features– Virtual Server Support– Server Administration– Protection from Common Threats– Data Encryption and Security– Built-in search engine

Application servers : Tomcat, Weblogic 7.0

• An application server is a server program in a computer within a distributed network that provides the business logic for an application program.

• The application server is frequently viewed as part of a three-tier application, consisting of GUI server, an application server, and a database and transaction server.

• Tomcat is a web server which can run servlets and JSP. • Tomcat is owned by Apache Software Foundation • Weblogic is an application server which can run EJBs also. • Weblogic is owned by Oracle. Weblogic fully supports the Java Enterprise Edition

like EJB. • Few distinctions between Tomcat & Weblogic: Transaction management can be done in Weblogic but it can’t be done in Tomcat. Weblogic supports both Http and Ftp but Tomcat only supports Http. Oracle WebLogic Server Process Edition also include Business Process

Management and Data Mapping functionality. WebLogic supports security policies managed by security administrators.

Procurement Data Analysis

• Bubble Charts• Visual BI• Deeper insights• Interactive and iterative development

methodology

Conclusion

• By building a centralized global procurement data warehouse, IGATE helped a leader in integrated communications improve its spend analysis process on different product categories across a diverse set of suppliers.

• These solutions can accelerate growth by employing features such as built-in data models, Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) and executive dashboards.

• To help clients meet the demands of today and plan for tomorrow, BI is the need of the hour