CUSTOMER SUCCESS STORY | PREDIGER

Illuminating a large product portfolio

Prediger provides exclusive designer lamps, technical lighting and light consulting

services throughout Germany. The company founded in 1921 o� ers over 25,000

di� erent articles from its large online shop and showrooms in Hamburg and Berlin.

Customers rely on Prediger for professional lighting advice and complete solutions.

Di� erent systems hinder fast insights

The lighting expert manages massive amounts of data on its vast selection of

products. Its product, customer, shipping and ticket information, however, is all stored

in various systems and databases. Over time, managing, exchanging and reporting

this data became more di� cult and time-consuming.

The small IT team at Prediger received the task to publish daily, weekly and monthly

statistics along with order, sales and merchandise management reports from various

business areas. It was then they knew that the existing solution could no longer keep

pace with the company’s ongoing development. The company needed a new tool to

manage its complete data management and reporting requirements.

Simplifying complexity

Prediger primarily wanted a simpler way to visualize masses of data – a universal

front-end solution regardless of the underlying data source. It also wanted to give

business users fast insights through capabilities for ad hoc analytics.

Easy handling, preferably in an environment similar to Excel, was another major

requirement. Reports should also be easy to build and pull information from a wide

range of databases.

Shedding new light on products and vendorsPrediger simplifi es reporting with Jedox

Customer

Carl Prediger GmbH & Co. KG

Region

Germany

Industry

Retail & Wholesale

Department

IT, Sales, Procurement

Solution

Personalized Web reporting,

manufacturer and product analysis

System environment

ERP Sage O� ce Line Evolution,

Magento (eCommerce), PIM, Vlog

shipping system, CRM, RT ticketing

system, MS SQL Server, Excel, Access

Executive Summary

The lighting expert Prediger chose

Jedox as a stable, fl exible solution

to report and analyze product and

manufacturer information in various

systems. The solution delivers current

information on more than 25,000

articles, delivery times and inventory

and automatically updates this data in

the online shop. With the help of Jedox,

the company has e� ciently streamlined

its data management processes.

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Custom solution through coaching

The lighting expert chose Jedox as a fl exible, smart BI solution. Various workshops

prepared the users to work e� ectively with the software. This coaching approach

instead of a standardized training allowed them to tailor Jedox to their own needs

from the beginning in order to later implement individual processes on their own. The

low administration, high fl exibility and easy installation of the software proved to be

a clear advantage.

Fast, fl exible, e� cient reporting

Reporting at Prediger used to be a painstaking process that involved multiple Excel

exports and a great deal of copy and paste. Jedox has simplifi ed this process

considerably. The personalized Web platform now presents dashboards, reports

and special functions for individual users almost automatically. A sales dashboard

visualizes central KPIs, which reveal interesting trends with just a glance. Users can

also conduct detailed analyses on individual articles, even down to postings in the

source system.

The new BI tool is ultrafast and e� cient. The system, for example, processes over

1.3 million accounting records in under three minutes. The online shop can also

automatically calculate reliable delivery times for over 25,000 di� erent articles. In

the case of exhibition articles, these delivery dates often lie weeks ahead. Previously,

employees had to update these individual periods manually, which was a time-

consuming, error-prone process. The system running the online shop now uses

Jedox Integrator (ETL) to automatically transfer the delivery time data and update it

overnight, thereby eliminating all manual work involved.

Future plans

Prediger is extending its Jedox application step by step. Upcoming plans include

integrating Google Analytics or enhancing its current mobile reporting capabilities to

access or create reports anytime and anywhere. In a later phase, the lighting expert

also wants to streamline its planning processes using Jedox Web client.

“With Jedox, we found a solution that optimally adapts to our current database environment.

We had a really good feeling about Jedox and its experience following the workshops – and quickly realized our instincts were right during the implementation.”

Jörn Hildebrandt, Commercial Director,

Carl Prediger GmbH & Co. KG

Contact: Jedox AG

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mail: info@jedox.com

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Users ⊲ 5 users

Benefi ts ⊲ Fast, reliable reporting

⊲ Integration of all data sources

⊲ Individual permissions

Why Jedox? ⊲ Familiar Excel environment

⊲ Flexible deployment on various

databases

⊲ In-house application

development and maintenance

⊲ Support through Jedox experts

⊲ Personalized Web dashboard

⊲ Easy installation and strong

system stability

Manufacturer and product analysis with Jedox Web solution