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Lloyd's

Lloyd's of London uses EQM and reduced their ROI from 18 months to 11 months Lloyd's, the world's leading specialist insurance company, does business in over 190 countries and territories. When Lloyd's of London chose BusinessObjectsT to manage their reporting environment, they realized that effective control of the BusinessObjectsT environment was a "must-have" if they were to ensure maximum return on their investment in BI technology.

Lloyd's recognized they needed better control over their resources, universes and reports. They also wanted to automate the migration of universes between environments to eliminate human error and guarantee procedures were in place when releasing changed Universes/Reports into a live environment.

NOAD's EQM was implemented, and now Lloyd's has completely separate environments for Development, Testing, Acceptance and Production (DTAP) with complete quality assurance procedures, an online real-time audit trail and automated migration process between them. Lloyd's uses EQM to analyze the impact of universe changes, highlight specific testing that needs to be completed, and create a complete audit trail of changes made and approved. They also can automate the transfer of universes and documents between environments, provide security so that no overwrites are performed on updated versions, and eliminate the redundancy of universes and documents.

Mr. Hunt, Senior Project Manager reports, "Initially we had anticipated a ROI in 18 months, but this was actually achieved in 11 months. The reduced cost of ownership of development and support of the BusinessObjectsT environment also resulted in a faster return on the BusinessObjectsT investment".

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