Case Study: Centric Group improves BI performance and cuts costs with Microsoft SQL Server 2012

Niche Market Supplier Improves BI, Speeds Performance, and Cuts TCO

Centric Group, a retail and distribution supplier, needed to improve its access to business data and analytical tools to enhance operations. Facing slow performance and high costs with an existing Oracle platform, the company sought a more efficient and cost-effective business intelligence solution from Microsoft.

By implementing a Microsoft BI solution built on SQL Server 2012 and SharePoint Server 2010, Centric Group empowered employees with real-time data access. This deployment resulted in reporting times being cut from hours to seconds, enabled better business decisions, and reduced the company's maintenance costs by two-thirds.

Centric Group

Pete Williams

Manager of Data Systems