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Success Story with Hertz, a car rental company

Posted: Wed Jan 29, 2025 10:10 am
by seonajmulislam00
QlikView has streamlined the entire decision-making and planning structure at Hertz Spain. The ability to react to seasonal situations in our market allows us to visualise possible scenarios and understand trends in bookings. The tool has also facilitated detailed monitoring of offices and salespeople spread across the country, allowing corrective measures to be taken earlier. ” Francisco Arroyo, IT Manager at Hertz Spain.

The Spanish subsidiary of Hertz, a global car rental company, leads the market for rent-a-car at airports, and offers mobility opportunities responding to individual needs with more than 80 offices throughout the country.Hertz offices

Product and service innovations such as Hertz #1 Club Gold, NeverLost satellite navigation systems, SIRIUS XM Satellite Radio and unique cars in the Prestige, Fun and Green Collections categories set Hertz far ahead of its competitors.

In a framework of continuous evolution, the Madrid headquarters considered the development of a tool that would allow them to anticipate possible business scenarios and act accordingly with greater speed in their service.

The system required an instrument that could analyse fleet greece number data management control and booking trends based on seasonality and geography criteria. All of this was available to a company with 350 employees and a turnover of 113 million euros in 2010.

Among the key factors that tipped the balance in favor of QlikView over other options were its ease of use and implementation, the intuitive nature of the tool, the possibility of importing data from different sources, and its quality-price ratio.

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The solution proposed by Mercanza, a QlikTech partner, was based on the creation of reports to be able to analyse the business in a proactive way and the possibility of visualising the information in a clearer and more precise way.

Hertz Club GoldQlikView was implemented in 2008, and since then Hertz has been able to view and analyse the information generated and thus obtain the full value of the new generation of BI.

The current system has a data volume of about 40 GB and around 100 users, ranging from team leaders and supervisors to managers and senior management.

The main indicators that QlikView measures are the fleet – in the operations department – the profit per day – in the financial area – and the fleet utilization in both departments.

The positive impact of the application on Hertz's transportation business was visible in a very short time, affecting the organization very positively: “ The simple fact of having such a visual solution that makes it easy to consult data and reservations from other periods in order to be able to react and be proactive about high season campaigns, allows us to organize the entire business and supply the national market in the most efficient way possible ,” says Francisco Arroyo, IT Manager of Hertz Spain.

Hertz branches

With the initial requirements fully met, Hertz has demonstrated the suitability of QlikView for this type of project through the implementation of the solution in the operations and financial areas.

According to the IT manager, the added value provided by QlikView has been unquestionable, supporting a new Management Control. In addition, Hertz has reduced the time it takes to obtain information about its business and continues to distribute daily activity reports that help to understand the status of the company in all its areas.