Case Study: Arata Corporation achieves streamlined sales reporting and reduced costs with Information Builders' WebFOCUS

WebFOCUS Streamlines Sales Reporting at Arata

Arata Corporation, a Tokyo-based wholesaler of household, health and beauty, and pet products, faced a time-consuming and inconsistent sales-reporting process: sales representatives manually pulled data into Excel each month to create retailer-specific reports, which demanded hours of work and produced uneven results.

With partner Ashisuto, Arata deployed Information Builders’ WebFOCUS to build the Genesis reporting environment—automating data retrieval, formatting and visualization into a common, user-friendly system. Developers ramped up quickly, report creation time dropped by about 10–20%, reporting efficiency improved, costs were reduced, and high-quality reports now reach customers much faster; Arata has adopted WebFOCUS as its standard web reporting tool and is expanding its use across the company.

Arata Corporation

Hideyuki Yamada

Head of General System Department, System Division