Past Analytics Excellence Awards
Team Members: Ricardo Mendes, Roberto Teófilo, Valter Cazassa
Company: Central de Recuperação de Crédito - CRC
Business Partner: Conjecto
Awards Category: From Zero to Hero
First of all, as far as we know, CRC was the first Alteryx customer in Brazil. Therefore, we were starting using Alteryx from Zero not just from a single company perspective, but also we were starting a journey that was inspiring for several other companies in Latin America. In fact, CRC’s success story was shared in the first two Alteryx User Group meetings in Brazil.
After starting using Alteryx in early 2014, in less than one month we have eliminated all the risky, time-consuming manual activities of one of the most important data blending processes which usually took four days of hard work of a CRC's line of business (LOB) analyst. Now, using Alteryx workflows, the whole process runs in less than 15 minutes, which has brought significant productivity improvements and more accurate results not only for this particular process, but also for several others that depend upon it. The extraordinary results obtained in the first Alteryx use case at CRC had sparked new initiatives to explore other opportunities with data blending and advanced data analytics. Alteryx is now an essential part of CRC business operations.
Awards Category: Best Value Driven with Alteryx
In 2015, just two years after started using Alteryx, CRC has experienced almost 30% revenue growth and a reduced 15% in its headcount. That’s a remarkable accomplishment for our business and we have no doubt that Alteryx solutions and Conjecto analytics services have played a very important role to make that happen. We love the independence and flexibility that Alteryx brought to our LOB analysts. Our users are much more productive and CRC is now a more data-driven company that it used to be. That was a big boost to our business.
Describe the problem you needed to solve
When CRC first started using Alteryx in the first quarter of 2014, the company was beginning a rapid expansion of its business activities that eventually led it to bring more strategic accounts to its customer base and, as a natural consequence, more data sources and complexity to its operations. In this challenging scenario, it would be virtually impossible to reach its goals without innovative, effective solutions for data analysis and decision support in different levels of the organization.
Alteryx solutions have been extremely helpful for us to solve different, relevant business problems. A major challenge for CRC prior to using Alteryx solutions was the need to quickly and effectively improve the productivity of daily critical and complex business processes based on data blending from different, heterogeneous sources with huge amount of information that could not be handled timely and appropriately with traditional software systems. Moreover, CRC operations performance was looking for effective ways to use machine learning algorithms to improve business performance without paying expensive software infrastructure and hiring expensive data science experts.
Describe the working solution
Alteryx solutions have been extremely helpful for us to solve different, relevant business problems. A major challenge for CRC that was solved with Alteryx software was the productivity of daily critical and complex business processes based on data blending from different, heterogeneous sources with huge amount of information that could not be handled timely and appropriately with traditional software systems.
CRC has also implemented more advanced analytics based on Alteryx predictive and spatial tools. One of the main business problems that we have successfully solved with those tools is identifying which are the individuals or companies that are most likely will respond positively to an action that will eventually lead them to paying their debts. That’s pretty much what we need to do on a daily basis to get better results to our customers and to our organization.
Regarding data blending functionality, CRC has taken advantage of most of data prep tools, including data preparation, parse, join, transform, developer, and inDatabase. To implement advanced analytics applications and macros, our team has used predictive (e.g., boosted, logistic regression, and decision tree models) and grouping tools (for unsupervised learning).
Describe the benefits you have achieved
In fact, all sponsors for this initiative recognize the extraordinary results with what have been accomplished thus far regarding business growth and customer satisfaction. Business and decision making processes have been greatly improved which had a profound impact corporate results. In 2015, just two years after started using Alteryx, CRC has experienced almost 30% revenue growth and a reduced 15% in its headcount. That’s a remarkable accomplishment and we have no doubt that Alteryx solutions and Conjecto analytics services have played a very important role to make that happen. Nowadays, CRC is well-known in Brazil as one of the most analytics-driven company in financial services.
