Case Study: The Association For Manufacturing Technology achieves scalable, rapid BI and improved member insights with OpenText Analytics

Open Source and Cloud Software from Actuate Delivers Business Intelligence to The Association For Manufacturing Technology

AMT — The Association For Manufacturing Technology, a century-old trade group supporting U.S. manufacturers, faced a classic data problem: a mountain of market and industry data but no efficient way to access, analyze, and deliver timely insights. Analysts spent excessive time compiling one-off reports from multiple sources, limiting service to members and constraining revenue opportunities, so AMT set out to build an online BI portal to enable faster, self-service access to its data.

AMT evaluated vendors and chose Actuate’s BIRT onDemand and ActuateOne to power MTInsight, a cloud-based, open-source friendly portal launched in June 2011. With vendor training and close member collaboration, MTInsight delivered on-demand reports and dashboards, slashed report production times (some monthly reports went from ~12 hours to seconds), saved subscribers hours weekly, enabled more competitive pricing for custom work, and created new revenue and partnership opportunities.

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