Case Study: Ravensburger achieves up-to-date sales insights and 80% faster reporting with Longview

Ravensburger Buchverlag Backs Arcplan Enterprise

Ravensburger Buchverlag, a long-established German publisher of children’s and youth books, needed faster, more reliable sales insight to manage thousands of titles and growing promotional demands. Its legacy process—exporting SAP data to Access and producing bespoke Excel reports—was time-consuming, hard to validate and required full‑time maintenance, preventing timely, multi-layered analyses and web access for sales and marketing staff.

Ravensburger implemented arcplan Enterprise with Microsoft SQL Server and Analysis Services (with Actinium Consulting), creating a standardized data warehouse and web-accessible BI reports with drill-down and historical analysis. The solution delivers 140 daily and periodic reports to about 50 users, enabling targeted promotions, better business control and market comparisons; report production time fell by 80%, IT support needs dropped, and users now self-serve up-to-date sales data.

Ravensburger

Peter Nowottny

Sales Manager