From the beginning, the focus was on helping clients set up data environments for analytics. What began as a small company with an in-house, home-made Excel application for timekeeping - the NURD (Nippur Hours Registration Database) - soon ran into the limits of manual processes.
Nippur is a company specializing in data & analytics. It advises clients on gaining more insights through robust data & analytics solutions. In addition to custom solutions, they also provide the Karez data platform, which quickly and flexibly supports clients across the entire data & analytics service provision.
Founded
2002
Employees
28
Headquarter
Oirschot
The challenge: growth outgrows Excel
As Nippur began to grow, managing the Excel-based timesheet became increasingly complex. Excel was fine for five people, but growing made it unwieldy, especially with management, new software versions and the risk that essential files were stored locally. The company needed a system that:
- Could centralize timekeeping (by client, by project, by task).
- Could secure contract agreements, hourly rates and master data on colleagues and clients.
- Could provide invoicing directly from the hourly system.
- Financially attractive and scalable.
The solution: ionBIZ as a central hub and partner in growth
As one of the first customers of ionBIZ, ionBIZ offered the functionalities Nippur needed, especially in the areas of time tracking and invoicing.
Core features in use:
- Centralized time tracking and invoicing: This is still the core feature in use. ionBIZ allows for a tight process where employees record their hours, vacation balances and leave requests. This allows Nippur to get invoices out the door on the first day of every month and keep billing under tight control. The integration between the hour sheets and billing is a great strength, providing traceability and easy answers to billing questions from customers.
- Ticketing and Service Contracts: Recently, Nippur started using ionBIZ's ticketing module for service contracts for their self-developed data platform product. This provides one place where customers can create tickets and those tickets can be linked to timekeeping and billing.
The results: efficiency and customized insights
ionBIZ has enabled Nippur to:
- Support healthy growth: Moving from an Excel solution to a robust, financially appropriate system has enabled the company's growth.
- Streamline billing: The monthly billing process is tight and reliable. The integration between hour sheets and billing provides traceability and easy answers to customer billing questions.
- Ensure control and traceability: The long retention time of historical data in ionBIZ ensures reliable and auditable financial records.
- Personalize data insight: For complex management questions that required a combination of data from different tables, such as leave and plus/minus hours, Nippur uses ionBIZ's OData link. This allows them to use their own expertise as a data consultancy to build efficient Power BI reports, eliminating manual Excel exports and speeding up management controls.
In short: where Excel once limited growth, ionBIZ is now helping Nippur further accelerate that growth. In the future, we will continue to think along about new possibilities and strengthen cooperation.
More information about Nippur's self-developed data platform Karez, can be found here.
