Omnia Group Deploys Clarity, an Apex BI’s Technology Expense Management (TEM) Platform

TechInAfrica — Omnia Group has launched Clarity, its Apex BI’s Technology Expense Management (TEM) platform which delivers insights across the entire group through to user level in detail. Omnia Group is a diversified chemicals group that provides chemicals supply and specialized services. It also provides solutions for the agriculture, mining, and chemical application industries.

The metadata Clarity attributes to each user is crucial in allowing Omnia to understand where the particular owner of a SIM card lives within the organizational hierarchy right away, and whether or not their consumption and related expenditure, align with their job function.

Omnia Group does not only try to limit the consumption of materials and resources used in its manufacturing processes but also attempts to create value continuously through its products. This approach is similarly reflected inside when it comes to the consumption management and internal value creation relating to its mobile environment.

Elaine Janssen, Omnia Group Procurement Officer, speaking on an occasion, said, “We needed the tools necessary to enable us to pinpoint and validate the primary cost drivers and contribution areas.

“Clarity has provided us with the level of insight necessary for the effective transfer of accountability and visibility to the relevant stakeholders. It also facilitated the implementation of strategic, and most importantly, informed, fact-based decisions. An example of one of the decisions that we were able to implement quickly was the deployment of enforced usage policies via Clarity, for certain user groups. This resulted in substantial savings.”

According to Nick Inward, National Account Manager, Apex BI, Omnia looked for ways to increase stakeholder accountability, acquire greater control over its mobile usage, decrease costs through enhanced visibility of consumption in all of its technology services, and access insightful data in support of informed decision-making processes.

“It is exactly where TEM and specifically Clarity have a significant role to play,” said Inward.

Clarity offers a majority of features and functionality benefits, including a single view across all mobile providers, benchmarking, and performance tracking. The analysis of before and after is simplified, and cost accounting and internal reporting are improved. It as well provides objective insights, measurable, tangible, high impact cost savings, and allows informed decision making.

Spreadsheets with different information over the stakeholder environment are eliminated. The system can lock user SIM cards if the predefined business standards and policies installed in the deployed software, are violated.

“Simply put Apex BI customers benefit from the power of knowing. They can log into a sophisticated online single source of information that provides near real-time foresight preventing bill shock, in other words changing decision making from reactive to proactive,” Inward concluded.

Source: intelligentcio.com