Case Study: Lannoo Group Publishers achieves faster reporting and improved operational efficiency with Qlik

Lannoo Group Publishers discloses wealth of business data using QlikView

Lannoo Group Publishers, a Belgium‑and‑Netherlands publisher of non‑fiction books and stationery with 165 employees and €45M in sales, faced slow, inflexible reporting from its Baan ERP and a 17 GB Oracle database—generating basic yearly statistics took around 15 minutes and often required a programmer. Sales reps and publishers needed rapid, detailed insight into sales, customers and items, so the company set out to find a BI solution.

After evaluating several vendors Lannoo selected QlikView; installation took half a day and the team developed 12 QlikView applications in six weeks, rolling them out across offices so 68 users were active by July 2007. Reporting and ad‑hoc analysis that once took hours can now be done in minutes with drill‑down visibility, delivering up‑to‑date management information, improved operational efficiency and clear time and cost savings.

Lannoo Group Publishers

Koen Muylle

Project Manager