Case Study: Majid Al Futtaim Ventures achieves unified, mobile business intelligence and faster decision-making with Microsoft Azure

One of the Middle East and Africa’s most popular leisure names moves to enhanced business excellence

Majid Al Futtaim Ventures, a leading leisure and retail group in the Middle East and Africa behind brands like VOX Cinemas, Ski Dubai and Magic Planet, faced limited operational visibility from its highly federated structure. Reporting relied on scattered Excel spreadsheets and month-end handoffs, with no easy mobile access to KPIs, so leadership sought a group-wide modern BI solution to move from reactive to proactive decision-making.

Partnering with Microsoft and Teambase, the company deployed Power BI with SQL Server 2016, Azure and Office 365, using an Agile approach to deliver an initial fashion-business content pack in six weeks. The new cloud BI service gives knowledge workers anywhere-access to consolidated KPIs, removes manual spreadsheet reporting, drove rapid adoption and executive praise, and is now being extended toward predictive analytics and machine-learning use cases.

Majid Al Futtaim Ventures

Richard Wingfield

Chief Information Officer