Case Study: Superior Graphite achieves executive dashboards in four hours with QlikView (Qlik)

QlikView’s revolutionary technology succeeds where OLAP failed at Superior Graphite

Superior Graphite, a Chicago-based producer of graphite and carbon products for diverse industrial markets, needed timely executive dashboards to replace slow Lotus Notes and spreadsheet reporting. After spending six figures and 18 months with consultants building an OLAP solution that failed to deliver, CIO Michael Korin sought a faster, more usable BI approach to provide current sales, regional and product-level insights.

A QlikView demo proved decisive: Korin built the phase-one executive dashboard in four hours, replacing a static 50‑page report with interactive, drillable views of sales and finance data and deploying to users within days. The rollout delivered real-time tracking, faster analysis and forecasting, reduced reliance on outside consultants, and immediate operational gains—enabling better decision-making and future what-if planning.

Superior Graphite

Michael Korin

Chief Information Officer