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Optimized data knowledge and report access at De Watergroep
De Watergroep is a public utility for water distribution in Flanders. It manages a regional pipeline network of roughly 34,000 km long. Next to distributing drinkable tap water, it is also responsible for collecting and purification of wastewater.
Key results
More than 1.000 reports cataloged
Reached 50 weekly users within the first month
A single access point to find and understand assets across various data tools
Sources
Power BI
Databricks
SAP Analytics Cloud
SAP BusinessObjects
Like many other businesses, De Watergroep was faced with a growing and complex reporting landscape - which included a self-service BI platform. Therefore, the action was required to allow people to easily find reports and to avoid a wild growth of duplicate or multiple versions of reports.
Unified report hub
To achieve this, dScribe was first rolled out as the central search and documentation portal for all reports in SAP BusinessObjects and SAP Analytics Cloud. Having a structured inventory of all reports has allowed the BI&Analytics team at De Watergroep to eliminate duplicate, old, or wrong versions of reports and thus ensure that all business decisions are based on the same data.
The outcome
Having a full inventory of all reports has allowed to BI&analytics team at De Watergroep to eliminate duplicate, old, or wrong versions of reports and thus ensure that all business decisions are based on the same data.
The scope was later expanded to include Databricks and Power BI and thus create an overall inventory of reports at De Watergroep. De Watergroep now also uses the dScribe glossary functionality in order to harmonize data definitions, KPIs and business terminology.
"With dScribe we’ve created a thorough overview of all the available data and reports at De Watergroep. Through the convenient search functionality this overview is rapidly becoming the starting point for handling any new data-related questions and ideas."
Sander Bruynoghe
Analist BI/Monitoring at De Watergroep
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