DATA INTEGRATION CASE STUDY

Monitoring and Reducing Telephone Costs

Clients Problem: Clients Requierement:
Phone invoices in 3 different formats Automated phone bill processing
Not suitable for electronic processing Efficient calls monitoring system by bill
Cumbersome manual phone bill evaluation analysis
Expensive and inaccurate manual processing Monitor private / company phone usage Czech subsidiary of a multinational
consulting company with 1,200
Mounting phone bills without traceable Determine best possible call rates / plans permanent employees and $100
cause by billing breakdown million in annual earnings, came to
Javlin Inc. with the following
CloverETL Solution: problem:
Telephone invoices were sent from
three different providers in three
Inputs: incompatible formats, thus not
suitable for subsequent electronic
Itemized phone bills in three different formats merging and processing.
Companys employee database To process and further analyze these
Customer contacts database invoices, the values were manually
entered into spreadsheets. These
Process: spreadsheets were then converted by
macros, updated every few months,
Consolidating CDRs (call detail records) from various telecommunications operators thus causing inconsistencies in
historical data. Because the compa-
into a uniform structure nys telephone bill was $44,000
Report phone expenses per person / project / department monthly, growing by further 24% per
Complete analysis of phone call pattern throughout the day year, approximately 6 man-days per
month had to be allocated to manage
this task. To keep phone expenses
Type of calls Private low the company needed an efficient
monitoring system. Therefore alll call
Company International records were to be merged into one
Domestic transparent format for further
Internal processing and evaluation.
Our team employed CloverETL to
consolidate data from all inputs into a
uniform structure that enabled easy
subsequent processing.
Thanks to the use of an ETL tool the
solution is transparent and maintai-
nable. Automation minimized the
possibility of a human error. At the
same time the implementation of
standard test and conversion
techniques through CloverETL sped
up development and improved the
quality of system updates. Additional
reporting option was generated to
supplement the solution package.
Telephone expenses now can be
broken down by person, department
or project.
CloverETL solution enabled the IT
department to work more efficiently
and gave the management the
opportunity to set accurate rules for
private telephone usage. With a real
Solution Benefits: historical data on hand the most cost
advantageous telephone plan was
chosen from each provider.
Process automation saving manpower, eliminating human errors
Calls audit reducing company phone abuse
Optimizing phone rates switched to the most cost-efficient provider
Javlin Inc.
11921 Freedom Drive
Overall Yearly Savings 37% = 150,000 Reston, VA 20190
USA

Javlin a.s.
Kremencova 18
110 00 Prague 1
Czech Republic

[email protected]
www.cloveretl.com
+420 277 003 237