KPMG TEAMS WITH WESTERN DIGITAL FOR NEXT-GENERATION
KNOWLEDGE-BASED SOLUTIONS
Western Digital Corporation, a leader in information storage products and services, has gone live with a comprehensive data warehouse implemented by KPMG LLP to quickly and accurately measure the company's products against the Western Digital world-class standard. KPMG, a leading professional services firm, designed this single knowledge repository to support Western Digital on a global basis.
With product lifecycles decreasing exponentially, Western Digital requires immediate access to detailed information for answers to mission-critical business questions, while focusing on customer requirements and satisfaction. The data warehouse solution provides the necessary answer.
KPMG and Western Digital designed the data warehouse solution to:
The Data Warehouse Solution
KPMG and Western Digital developed a single information repository currently accessible to Western Digital employees worldwide via the company's Intranet. Through the data warehouse solution, Western Digital can be proactive with its customer base, drive its suppliers to build better, more reliable hard drive components and better meet customer needs based on the knowledge captured. The solution provides the company with the ability to collect over a thousand attributes and supports an infinite number of queries on a given product as it moves through the production and distribution process.
"We can now spend more time analyzing data and making strategic decisions as a result of the data warehouse solution," said Jerry Hill, vice president of Enterprise Data Warehousing at Western Digital. "We've been able to dramatically reduce the amount of time we spend simply looking for relevant data. We chose KPMG because of its ability to understand Western Digital's vision of the end solution, our business and our challenges. KPMG also offered the best Internet solution, which has enabled Western Digital to provide better customer service and accurate information to our suppliers."
"We are providing our clients the capabilities to focus on fact-based decision making in a global economy," said George Lambert, partner in KPMG's Information Communications and Entertainment (ICE) practice. "Western Digital is now armed with a comprehensive, end-to-end solution that can help ensure its long-term and global success."
Western Digital's Executive Briefing Center
Western Digital has created an Executive Briefing Center (EBC) at the company's Irvine, California headquarters facility to demonstrate to other company executives how the data warehouse solution benefits Western Digital. The Executive Briefing Center showcases how the technology is being used to provide insights, how state-of-the-art inventory management is being implemented, and the results Western Digital has achieved with the data warehouse solution.
For more information on the data warehouse solution and the Executive Briefing Center, contact Linda Perez at (949) 932-5793.
About Western Digital Corporation
Western Digital Corporation is a leader in information storage products and services. The company designs and manufactures hard drives for personal and enterprise-wide computing and markets them to leading systems manufacturers and selected resellers under the Western Digital brand name. Western Digital is the first Fortune 500, multinational company to have been awarded company-wide ISO 9001 registration, linking all WD organizations with a consistent global standard for quality processes. The company was founded in 1970 and has long been noted for its storage and end-market systems-level design knowledge. The company's World Wide Web home page can be found at http://www.westerndigital.com.
About KPMG
KPMG LLP is the U.S. member firm of KPMG International. In the U.S., KPMG partners and professionals provide a wide-range of accounting, tax and consulting services. As a provider of information-based services, KPMG delivers understandable business advice - helping clients analyze their businesses with true clarity, raise their level of performance, achieve growth and enhance shareholder value. KPMG International's member firms have more than 6,700 partners and 92,000 professionals in 157 countries. KPMG's Web site is http://www.kpmgconsulting.com.