Case Study: Wolseley slashes reporting time and builds an analytics culture with Alteryx

Wolseley - Customer Case Study

Wolseley UK’s Infrastructure division, a leading distributor in civils, utilities, power and hire, struggled with fragmented data across many portals and specialist systems, which made getting a unified view for reporting and decision-making slow and error-prone. The team needed a way to standardize data, improve analytics and free up time to focus on growth and innovation.

Using Alteryx, Simon built “iSTAN”: an Alteryx-based database and analysis workflow that combines disparate sources, applies standardized KPIs and spatial and predictive tools, and serves as the team’s analytical hub. The solution eliminated duplication, cut customer reporting from 8 hours to 30 minutes, created hundreds of measures for better decisions, fostered a culture of analytics, and personally enabled greater work–life balance—Simon earned Alteryx certifications, joined the community, and lost 8½ stone (119 lbs).

Wolseley

Wasim Yaqoob

Senior Multichannel Analyst