Case Study: North Star BlueScope Steel achieves unified dashboards and improved operational efficiency with OpenText Analytics

North Star BlueScope Steel Selects BIRT to Improve Operational Efficiency and Leverage IBM Maximo

North Star BlueScope Steel (NSBSL), a joint venture between BlueScope Steel and Cargill in Delta, Ohio, is a steel manufacturer that relies on IBM Maximo for asset and maintenance management. NSBSL faced siloed data, manual and error-prone reporting, and no standard BI framework—hindering operational visibility, timely decisions and self-service access to critical information.

NSBSL implemented Actuate’s open-source BIRT integrated with IBM Maximo and other systems to create a single BI framework with interactive dashboards and ad hoc reporting. The phased rollout has unified reporting, reduced reliance on IT, sped time-to-insight, improved compliance and operational decision-making, and set the stage for mobile access and future Maximo upgrades.

North Star BlueScope Steel

Miguel Alvarez

President, NSBSL