Case Study: Albany International Corp. achieves faster profitability insights with Microsoft and Simplement

Albany International - Customer Case Study

Albany International Corp., a global manufacturing company with a focus on advanced textiles and materials processing, faced a significant challenge in measuring product profitability. Despite using SAP, their existing tools and manual processes made it extremely difficult and time-consuming to analyze financial data, hindering their ability to identify new ways to increase profits. They turned to Microsoft and its partner Simplement for a business intelligence solution.

Microsoft and Simplement implemented a solution combining the Simplement Data Liberator Platform with Microsoft SQL Server and Power BI. This integration liberated data from SAP and presented it through real-time dashboards, providing immediate insights into profitability. The results were transformative: analysis that once took hours or could only be done a few times a year was reduced to seconds, enabling data-driven decisions on product selection and manufacturing. This empowered Albany to finally understand its global profitability and find new avenues for growth.

Albany International Corp.

Dawne Wimbrow

Vice President and CIO