Atento is a call center company with offices in 16 countries. Each country has its own systems to manage and support daily operations, but all use the same processes and business units. The corporate office needed to consolidate all that information and align local indicators with the global business strategy. The company also had isolated data marts, based on different technologies, that weren’t shared across departments, so generating monthly executive reports was time-consuming, requiring lots of manual validation and coordination.
To solve these problems, Atento built an enterprise data warehouse, using Agile methodologies so that business users could quickly evaluate the project’s ROI and be involved as stakeholders in the following phases of the solution. The Azure platform is serving as an interim solution to support the entire BI stack so that it can be easily accessed by corporate and local teams. Come see how they did it.
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FROM ISOLATED INFORMATION TO AN EDW
Background and goals
Each country has its own systems to manage and support daily operations, but all use the
same processes and business units.
The company also had isolated data marts, based on different technologies, that
weren’t shared across departments, so generating monthly executive reports was time-
consuming, requiring lots of manual validation and coordination.
The corporate office needed to consolidate all that information and align local
indicators with the global business strategy to provide a unified repository for
local and global management
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Initial Stuff
Sql
Server
Oracle
Oracle
EIP
SGS
SAP
BPC
Local BI
System
Sql Server
Oracle
Local BI
System
Sql Server
Oracle
Sql
Server
Oracle
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BI Strategy Aligned With IT Roadmap
Unify tools at
country level
• Same desktop
platform
• Same ERP
• Common
intranet
• eDW
Main Priority
• Corporate
reporting to
measure
effective and
efficient
company
performance
Convert
weaknesses
in strengths
Quick Wins
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Global And Local Users Engagement
QW1
• POC to consolidate indicators
based on global corporate reports
QW2
•Train corporate users to have
them supporting the new BI
system
QW3
•Compile existing definitions
from all countries to build a
common set of indicators and
dimensions. Involvement of
country and corporate teams.
QW4
•Minimize impact on the current
local processes providing a
common tool based on their
current local processes
QW5
•Train country users on the global
BI system to understand the value
of a EDW
QW6
•Build the BI system following
agile methodologies involving
final users through all the
iterations
10. FROM ISOLATED INFORMATION TO AN EDW
Agile Implementation
Create Collaboration Area
• Unify criteria per area based on
conversations with final users
• Create common templates for
all countries
•Create web portal in Sharepoint
Extend BI system
•Add new indicators and
dimensions
•Incorporate countries
Engage Users
•Train final users
•Validate data against
existing reports
Iteration n
11. FROM ISOLATED INFORMATION TO AN EDW
BI Architecture Keys
Analysis Services
•OLAP storage
DW Database
•Fact and Dimension schemas to
support eDW
Staging Database
•One schema for each data source
•Views to consolidate data for area
•Single point of source for the
eDW
•Provide independence to the
number of sources
•Scripts and stored procedures to
automatically add new sources
ETL
•Changes needed to incorporate
new dimensions and
measures, but not new sources
12. FROM ISOLATED INFORMATION TO AN EDW
Loading Staging
Country Users
Unify information per country
and department
Stage Send DW
Country 2
Country nCountry 1
Data Control Checks
15. AZURE AS THE BI PLATFORM
From Zero to 100 using the cloud
Atento needed additional IT to:
Extend the network
Create a corporate domain
Build new servers
Provide global access
Havi minimum risks and costs
16. AZURE AS THE BI PLATFORM
Hybrid Network
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Internet
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XX.XXX.XX.XX
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Windows Azure (Europe West DC)Atento (Madrid)
SubNet01LANAtento
DNS Atento:
Proxy Atento
DNS DC/AD Azure MIS
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17. AZURE AS THE BI PLATFORM
Active Directory And BI In The Cloud
ADSGLB001
Azure Virtual Machine
Domain Controller 01
ADSGLB002
Azure Virtual Machine
Domain Controller 02
Azure Virtual Machinge
Analysis Services
CBIGBL001 CBIGBL002
Azure Virtual Machine
Integration Services
SQLGBL001
Azure Virtual Machine
DBMS SQL Server 2012
Azure Virtual Machine
SharePoint Server 2010 01
LOC: West Europe
VMS: L (4 Cores)
SHPGBL001
LOC: West Europe
VMS: L (4 Cores)
LOC: West Europe
VMS: L (4 Core)
LOC: West Europe
VMS: L (4 Core)
LOC: West Europe
VMS: S (1 Core)
LOC: West Europe
VMS: S (1 Core)
CLOUD ACTIVE DIRECTORY AND INFRASTRUCTURE
VPN CROSS-SITE ATENTO-AZURE (VIRTUAL NETWORK)
Local/Corporate Atento Network
SAP BPC
Atento Virtual Machine
LOC: Atento Corporate
Network
Local System
Atento Virtual Machine
LOC: Atento Local Network
Local System
Atento Physical Machine
LOC: Atento Local Network
18. CONCLUSIONS
Strategy
•Quick Wins
•Short Time to Market and
quick ROI
•Local and corporate users
using the same information
Development
•Agile methodology and early
training
•Final user engagement
Infrastructure
•Azure
•Immediate and flexible
infrastructure management
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Atento:as you can see in this map atento is a global companyWith operations in 16 countries,most of them in south america, we are more than one hundred and fifty thousand employees, we are providing customer support to hundreds of millions of people in europe, north and south america and africa. founded by telefonica in spain, we were involve in an adquisition by bain capital group As Contact Center and BPO LeadersWe represent major clients in very diverse areas of action - finance, telecommunications,insurance, technology and so on. in every country where we are. Our solutions, product portfolio.Backoffice, customer service, sales, debt recovery,service desk, technical supportwhich are offered as part of a real partnership with our clients supported by multichannels solutions.
Each country has its own systems to manage and support daily operations, but all use the same processes and business units. The company also had isolated data marts, based on different technologies, that weren’t shared across departments, so generating monthly executive reports was time-consuming, requiring lots of manual validation and coordination The corporate office needed to consolidate allthat information andalign localindicators with the global business strategy.
There was another big challenge to support. Atento is a very flexible company, they adapt to the changes very quickly, so that means the are having new countries, entities and organizations quite frequently. So the BI system should be able to grow and adapt to their needs very quickly. Agility is the main concept here. In summary, we need to have the ability to do adapt to the changes quite easily with the minimum impact in the system.
The initial stuff is compose by local systems that are managed by local teams. Some countries have their own local BI systems. The corporate office has started to compile manually the information and storing it in the corporate system, howev.er the process is quite tedious and produce a compile scorecard from the different corporate sources it is a hard task
One of the main question before starting the Project was to identify the priorities for Atento in terms of IT. The main goal was to consolidate not just the process across the organization but also the tools and systems.For an organization like Atento, having the possibility of analyzing the data cross-country and cross-department is a must. They are managing 150.000 employees and 500 clients, they have to assure the company is running within the expected performance to assure its continuity.However the diversity of the tools and the manual based operations run in each country was an important challenge. Moving from a local-isolated strategy to a global-consolidated company needs to assure people and process adapt to the new vision quite smoothly. To assure that Atento defined a set of actions so they can move to the final goal based on a Quick Wins plan.
Toassurethesuccess of thecorporateimplentationisneededtoassurethatallusersinvolvedunderstandthevalue of thesystem and are engaged so theimplementationwould be considered as anopportunitynot as asriskor as a threat. Proof of concept, training and minimalchangesontheirday-by-daybasicsprocessesis crucial.
Se were spending a lot of money deploying global Solutions :Global SAP rollout, eprocurenent Platform , Global CRM. new global prívate Cloud IaaS.We get the solution ready and we need to deploy it.Spending a lot of money in global project one of them deployment global infrastructures As Private CloudExtend the networkCreate a corporate domainBuild new serversProvide global accessHavi minimum risks and costs