Logan City Council

OneBI has allowed Council to save time and reduce costs, by providing greater visibility of key strategic and operational information. Council is now using OneBI to make more informed decisions, by accessing real-time information in an easily digestible format.

"We're saving about 700 hours a year across the organisation, by using OneBI," Mr Strachan said.

"That translates to a cost savings of about $700,000, and allows the branches to undertake other value-add activities. Rather than spending all their time trying to find the information, they can better utilise resources to provide an improved service to the public."

Logan City Council is a local government in South East Queensland, with a population of more than 300,000 residents across its land area of 957 square kilometres. The council was seeking a business intelligence system that could easily exploit information from its enterprise software.

Logan City Council uses a number of TechnologyOne products for its core business processes, including TechnologyOne Financials, Supply Chain, Human Resource & Payroll (HRP), Asset Management and Enterprise Budgeting. The council implemented OneBI to extract and deliver data from both TechnologyOne's software and third-party systems in a simple, easy to understand format.

"The graphical overlay of OneBI really talks in everyone's language," Finance Manager Robert Strachan said.

"To interpret finance numbers you need a certain type of knowledge and expertise. But to have that information presented in a table, graph or dashboard really simplifies it, so it is easy to understand.

"OneBI provides live information, which means you aren't looking at data from last week, or last month. It gives you the option to look at historical data, or at the current period.

"From a managerial perspective, OneBI provides transparency. Managers can now see in real-time, what's happening, when and where across the city. It definitely improves decision making."

The council is now using OneBI to simplify reporting from its HRP and Financials systems, with plans to eventually roll out to Asset Management and external databases.

"The budget process this year has been about finding efficiencies and cost savings, and that's not going to change for the next few years," Mr Strachan said. "Working with OneBI is allowing us to make those improvements. We are certainly now producing quality work at a rapid rate."