Malaysia Timber Industrial Board(MTIB) is responsible for initiating development of the various sectors of the timber industry and providing technical, marketing and other forms of assistance to ensure their continued growth within a rapidly industrialising Malaysian economy.

MTIB had problem in integrating their multiple systems from different platforms into a central repository for  Business Intelligence(B.I) and Business Performance Management(BPM) for their Management. At the same time, the Board needed to implement a series of analysis and reports especially to one of their departments named PSHEK. In PSHEK, the reports were generated manually in MS Excel format. They also faced the data discrepancies in their MCS system.

One of the objectives of this project carried out by the Board using Speedminer technology has been to develop an informative system, which provide both  MTIB users easy and free access to the reports in  a central and public place and to the public as well.

The Board needed to boost its capacity for multidimensional analysis, and improve access to the data being exported to MS office environment and scheduling capacity. The another requirement of the Board for selecting the tool was it must be easy to be implemented and user friendliness.

The Board also required the solution to have single sign-on technology.

For that reason, the Board decided to set a plan in motion to provide business intelligence(B.I) solutions for their Management, which were to give added value to the existing applications.

The main system involved in this project were MCS system which is Oracle DBMS and  MyFinance system which is in SQL server DBMS. We had also integrated their data from Department of Statistics Malaysia(in report format) and data in MS Excel and MS Access. Other systems involved included their Human Resource Management System and SISPEN.

Many objectives have been met and many benefits obtained through Speedminer solution. The most relevant has been the creation of analytical reports automatically especially to the PSHEK department which eliminates the manual work. To integrate the many systems in different databases, this is the success although not too hard but it was a success for MTIB.

Speedminer also produce a centralized place for MTIB to access their reports and analysis in a portal. Now the public too can easily access to the MTIB reports!

The creation of dashboard with analysis especially top level analysis has served as an aid decision-making tool for their Management.

With Speedminer, MTIB has been able to identify data error and discrepancies in their MCS system. Speedminer is able to serve as data checking platform and data cleansing tool.

It took about six months to complete the whole project include training and more than a hundred reports and analysis has been completed.

1. Export and Import information, report and analysis, regarding the number of product exported, the volume, the FOB value and to which destination and also trend analysis together with forecasting.
2. Export and Import License approval information, report and analysis, regarding the number of license approved with and without physical inspection.
3. Export report and analysis, break down by bumiputera and non bumiputera.
4. Top 10 analysis of exports, imports, exporters, importers, export destination and etc.
5. Financial report analysis.
6. HR analysis and reports