Case Study: Leading Equipment and Related Parts Wholesale Distributing Company achieves unified business insights and faster decisions with Informer by Entrinsik

Privately held wholesale distributor achieves comprehensive view into overall businesses with Informer

A privately held wholesale distributor with more than 300 employees and a dozen U.S. locations—carrying 12,000+ products and parts from 400+ manufacturers—needed a modern analytics environment to support rapid growth and recent acquisitions. Data access and analysis were limited to a few specialists using massive spreadsheets, and the company lacked a consolidated view across newly acquired businesses and diverse systems.

The BI Director implemented Entrinsik Informer 5 to stage, cleanse and blend data from a dozen-plus sources (SQL, UniData, FileMaker, large spreadsheets, etc.) using Informer’s Data Flows, creating curated datasets, reports and dashboards. The result: automated daily inventory reporting, ad-hoc and dashboard analytics for managers and the board, self-service data exploration for technical and non-technical users, and consistent time‑interval analysis to uncover inventory and operational trends—enabling faster, better-informed decisions.