|  Nedcor Ltd.
 Nedcor Ltd., a $21 billion bank in South Africa, created 
              a consolidated view of its lines of business ranging from banking 
              and finance to cellular phones and credit card services. Nedcor's 
              visions was to create a Strategic Intelligence Centre where all 
              data was available in a form that could be readily accessed and 
              used in the consideration of tactical and strategic alternatives 
              and to disseminate that information out to executives and managers 
              involved in strategic and tactical decisions. Nedcor had attempted to use competing solutions utilizing 
              classic data modeling techniques, however the large amounts of raw 
              data--tens of gigabytes a month from over 30+ data source--made 
              classic OLAP solutions unfeasible because of the immense hardware 
              requirements and the failure of the software to scale to that level. Nedcor needed an advanced scenario based program management 
              to manage all initiatives in the bank and wanted to test their decisions 
              in management and board meetings in advance of taking action. The solution supports scenario management and 
              operations profiling for analyzing the benefit, return, and impact 
              of new products, changes in fee structures, branch additions and 
              closings, acquisitions, and various other campaigns. The effects 
              of each scenario could then be viewed in real-time based on the 
              actual data in the enterprise model.
 
 
              "Nedcor uses Virtual Strategy in it's 
                Strategic Intelligence Centre to answer the key business questions 
                of "What is happening? Why has it happened? What could happen 
                next? and "What can we do about it?"  - Anton de Sousa, GM 
                Retail Banking 
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