Burton businesses commit to intelligent partnership
Burton upon Trent based Ginho has signed a contract with local business intelligence specialists Marshall Mahoney as the global automotive components group embarks on an ambitious programme of international growth.
The first step of the partnership will be for Ginho to integrate Marshall Mahoney's Data Hub product which will bring cutting-edge technology to the company's financial reporting.
Data Hub will provide a single version of the truth, at the touch of a button, in the form of a single dashboard across Ginho's UK, European, US and Mexico operations.
It will consolidate and streamline statistics from multiple sources - including Sage - and legacy systems such as CRM (customer relationship management).
As a cloud-based system, it is serverless, and therefore avoids both risks from technological failure and the need for any upfront infrastructure.
Data Hub also brings maximum levels of compliance on an international basis and state-of-the-art cybersecurity.
The huge savings in terms of time and money are game-changing benefits for business leaders but the facility to then access, analyse and act on insight in real time is also getting serious traction as more and more companies sign up to Marshall Mahoney's business intelligence services.
Installation typically takes four to six weeks as opposed to four to six months.
Shaun Gray, managing director of Ginho, is hugely excited about the commercial benefits it will bring and partnering with a locally-based business saying: “It's fantastic that we have found a local company to support with Ginho's business intelligence development.
“With Data Hub streamlining our business reporting we will continue to offer the most efficient and cost-effective solutions for our customers.
“Previously, it would typically take around three days of our financial controller's time to collate monthly accounts. It will now take less than a minute! Similarly, if a customer wants a snapshot at any point, they can have it immediately.”
“Working to a just-in-time model means that timeliness has always been crucial. Now that we will have instant access to live data whenever we need it, we will be able to identify trends that much faster and to predict future needs and upcoming challenges.”
Marshall Mahoney director James Marshall added: “We are delighted to have been contracted by Ginho who epitomises the type of business that we can help to make huge improvements in terms of efficiency - a global organisation with multiple sites and vast numbers of product lines.
“Our customers tell us that they want data silos to be a thing of the past and we are delighted our automated business intelligence platform can achieve this, saving our customers life-changing amounts of time and giving them a single source for their business data. We are also working on a number of new innovations too to help analyse the past, digest the present and predict the future.”
Marshall Mahoney offers a suite of Data Hub products for businesses of all sizes. Click here for more information.
Pictured from left to right: Tim Mahoney, technology consultant CTO at Marshall Mahoney; WeiWei, European financial controller at Ginho; James Marshall, data and business consultant CMO at Marshall Mahoney and Shaun Gray, European managing director at Ginho.
