Zonke Monitoring Solutions (ZMS) was appointed as the agent of The National Gambling Board of South Africa in 2001, in terms of which it is contracted to develop, operate and maintain the Central Electronic Monitoring System (CEMS) to manage and monitor the Limited Pay-out Machine (LPM) industry in Website: http://www.zonkems.co.za Country or Region: South Africa Industry: Gambling Industry Partner: Karabina Software South Africa. Gambling is highly regulated by both the National and Provincial Gambling Boards, and ZMS must ensure that the CEMS complies with the applicable standards and regulatory requirements. At the forefront of technological innovation in their industry ZMS chose Zonke Monitoring Systems enhances profitability by providing state of the art systems to the gambling industry. Mission Statement: “We strive to be the gambling industry service provider of choice, known and respected for our ability to always deliver exceptional solutions and systems. We shall become a partner to our customers by creating a unique offering and delivery of integrated culture of solutions, supported enthusiastically by a devoted personnel” About Karabina Software Karabina Software was created with the vision of providing businesses leaders with pre-packaged software that enables them to leverage the benefits of their underlying but often difficult to understand data sources, without the risk of to advance in their ability to monitor and report on their monitoring systems. The Challenge: The data collected by ZMS monitoring applications and devices provide licence information, client information and machine revenue. The system is also able to detect if the machine has been tampered with. The challenge faced by ZMS was that there was no central repository of data for reporting, limiting their ability to view the data from all of the machines they are monitoring. As the gambling board regulates all forms of gambling and licence fees and the tax that is payable on the earnings generated by these machines, there was a requirement for a reporting and analytic tool. Without a central data warehouse management we were not able to easily access and pull data. Further to this ZMS has a legacy system that would be decommissioned once a new system goes live, adding the challenge of reporting off old data and new system data. lengthy expensive technology deployments. Specific ZMS requirements included the need for: Our intention is to continually harvest IP and understanding from the success we have in our enterprise and corporate consulting business, and produce low cost affordable software that can be deployed instantly with immediate results. www.karabinasoftware.com A centralised single source of accurate data for all ZMS monitoring Data Increased business confidence in information presented for compliance purposes. Ability to include legacy data as well as data from the new monitoring system. Provide a mechanism for reporting and analysis of data, from a central repository of information. Ensure ZMS could still leverage off of their investment in Qlikview. www.karabinasoftware.com | [email protected] | Tel: +27 (0) 11 463 8155 | Fax: +27 (0) 11 463 4996 INTRODUCTING TIMEXTENDER TO ZMS Karabina was tasked with providing a TIME TO VALUE mechanism for reporting and analysis of data, from a central repository of information, using an easy to use tool to quickly create and generate any reports ZMS needed, while still leveraging off their investment in Qlikview. They required a stable BI environment that could be managed and maintained by their existing team in order to reduce running costs. This also had a tight deadline as ZMS urgently needed the tool implemented and operational giving us six weeks for project implementation. Our rapid development model allowed us to implement the tool quicker than the time frame provided, implementing the solution within 4 weeks, saving ZMS time on the project. TECHNOLOGY By implementing TimeXtender, an agile and flexible data warehousing tool, ZMS have a consolidated view of information across the organization with the ability to report off historical as well as current information. With TimeXtender, QlikView Modeller & Script Generator, we were able to leverage off the QlikView investment allowing them to still use the product in conjunction with our additional analysis and reporting. • Microsoft SQL Server Standard Edition • TimeXtender • Qlikview “Our rapid development model allowed us to implement the tool quicker than the time frame provided, implementing the solution within 4 weeks, saving ZMS time on the project.” Heath Turner, Director, Karabina Software IN CONCLUSION TimeXtender design environment’s drag and drop capabilities have allowed ZMS to adopt the maintenance and future development of their data warehouse. The user friendly nature of the tool allows users to create and generate their own reports. ZMS were able to see the immediate ROI of this additional tool, providing them with consolidated reporting and analytics on all of their data, implemented within the budget and timeframe provided. The tool has also automated their reporting as there is no longer manual capturing or analysing of data, it is now easily accessible to all business users. www.karabinasoftware.com | [email protected] | Tel: +27 (0) 11 463 8155 | Fax: +27 (0) 11 463 4996
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