News - 24 Oct: QlikView slashes costs at gold refinery

QlikView slashes costs, risks at world's biggest single-site gold refinery and smelter

The Rand Refinery, the world's largest single-site gold refinery and smelter, has used new-generation business intelligence (BI) technology from QlikView to increase production efficiencies and boost its profitability, says CIO Neri Credo.

The refinery implemented QlikView in early 2007, having accumulated several years' worth of data for analysis in its JDE enterprise system, because it recognised the need for easier, faster access to information. Reporting previously took days out of every week and the results were inflexible and hard to read.

"In two weeks the QlikView team produced a profitability model as a proof of concept that we're still using,” says business analyst David Denton. “Even on our most conservative projections of the resulting savings, that model alone will pay for the entire implementation in 14 months."

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