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E.ON UK Cuts Reporting Time to Five Days and Saves Money Through Faster Reconciliation

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Overview E.ON UK wanted to conduct complex analyses of six terabytes of customer billing and settlement data that increases by five to six million rows per day to gain insight into customers' gas and electricity use and leverage multidimensional analytical capabilities to ensure prompt reconciliation and identify over- or undercharging. The challenge was to analyze gross margins to the lowest level and identify demand for and profitability of 40 different price-capped offerings. The company implemented Oracle to support the Finance Transformation Project to improve analytical capability, deliver timely billing and settlement data, and improve forecasting accuracy. It replaced Microsoft Excel spreadsheets and Access databases with Oracle Database, Oracle OLAP, and Oracle Business Intelligence Standard Edition.

Further White Paper Details
Publisher	Oracle	File Format	PDF
Date Published	January 2008	Downloads	2
Format	Case Studies
Topics	Database Management, Business Intelligence - Data Warehousing, Finance

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