Star Group is Queensland’s largest independently owned and operated pub and liquor retail group with a portfolio of 18 licensed venues, 46 retail liquor outlets and six accommodation venues.

Challenge

Star Hotels were running a spreadsheet-based process to consolidate the results of their 30 hotels. This used to be an error prone, labour intensive process that took the finance staff more than 2-3 weeks to prepare. This left very little time for the actual analysis of results and often took too to respond to urgent matters in time.

Solution

Using Acterys the process to create and maintain the Star Hotels data warehouse which loads the data from 30 Xero companies was completely automated with just one click. The automatically generated Power BI reports and dashboards were extended with POS, HR systems and other data sources and customized to the exact requirements in less than a week.

 Outcomes

With a completely automated process the finance team have now up to date information in real time supported by powerful interactive analytics features in Power BI.