Upper-case LEIFHEIT teams with lower-case arcplan

Must be a case of opposites attracting … upper-capped LEIFHEIT, a manufacturer of non-electrical household appliances, bathroom accessories and textiles, a business intelligence platform humbly bedecked arcplan. arcplan Enterprise will underpin LEIFHEIT decision support and sales analysis via CIM-OLAP, an arcplan Enterprise-based analytical application developed by the German arcplan partner Antares Informations-Systeme GmbH.

The complete management information system implement represents a changeover from the LEIFHEIT’s German field sales staff use of a CRM system for sales and revenue analysis. The combination of central repository and local databases on each salesperson’s laptop was found slightly inefficient in the long-term planning sphere; the LEIFHEIT brain trust ultimately selected the OLAP module of the Corporate Information Mall solution developed by Antares. LEIFHEIT’s MIS is based on arcplan Enterprise and includes OLAP technology and predefined data models and input forms for analyses and reports.

The data are updated automatically on a daily basis and centrally stored in a SQL Server database. LEIFHEIT AG supplies non-electrical household appliances, bathroom accessories and textiles in Europe under brand names such as Dr. Oetker Bakeware, Kleine Wolke, LEIFHEIT, Meusch, Soehnle, spirella, and Dr. Oetker Bakeware.

Headquartered in Nassau, LEIFHEIT employs 1,600 and boasted turnover of €296 million (approximately US $381.5 million) in 2005. Founded in 1993, arcplan is a provider of process-centric business intelligence software. Arcplan has headquarters in Dusseldorf, Germany and Philadelphia, Penna. Arcplan’s clientele of 2,500 customers and 300,000 users worldwide includes Bayer, DaimlerChrysler, Deutsche Bank, Schering and Office Depot.