Case Study: Elizabeth Arden achieves up to 10× faster financial, sales, and marketing reporting with Oracle Exadata and Oracle Business Intelligence

Elizabeth Arden Runs Software and Hardware Engineered Together to Generate Financial, Sales, and Marketing Reports up to 10 Times Faster

Elizabeth Arden, a global prestige beauty company selling brands in more than 100 countries, needed faster, more reliable analytics to support finance, sales, and supply-chain decision making. Key challenges included accelerating financial report generation to meet a three‑day month‑end close, reducing time spent troubleshooting problem queries, and improving performance for a growing four‑terabyte data warehouse without continually adding hardware.

Elizabeth Arden deployed Oracle Exadata with Oracle Business Intelligence 11g to build a near real‑time data warehouse for 600 users. Report generation sped up 3x–10x, shrinking month‑end close times and increasing data‑warehouse usage; five executive dashboards and Essbase P&L reports enabled faster, targeted decisions and marketing; BI troubleshooting time dropped sixfold; and Oracle support freed two IT staff while providing scalable performance without frequent hardware additions.

Elizabeth Arden

James Barlow

Director Global Business Intelligence