Case Study: Gentex achieves 50% growth in sales in six months with Sisense

Sisense Forecasting Helps Gentex Gain Hindsight, Insight and Foresight on Operation Planning

Gentex, a century-old manufacturer of helmet systems and protective fabrics for defense, emergency responders and industrial customers, was operating on a 30-year-old ERP with millions of records. Director of IT Eric Farrell needed a BI solution that could extract fast, actionable intelligence from sales and operations planning data, but options for modern analytics in that legacy environment were limited and costly.

Gentex deployed Sisense—starting with a proof of concept—to build Elasticube-backed, drag-and-drop dashboards and predictive forecasts that became the company’s single source of truth. The platform achieved rapid, company-wide adoption and delivered measurable impact: 50% sales growth in six months, an 8% increase in ROI on new product launches, a 3% reduction in expenses through better planning, next-day visibility into spending and up-to-15-month forecasting.

Gentex

Eric Farrell

Director of IT