MXI secures €380,000 deal with Irish Life

Wicklow software provider MXI Ireland has secured a €380,000 deal with pensions and life assurance insurance provider, Irish Life, which has selected Tableau Software to support its business intelligence (BI) across the firm. The financial services specialist is using Tableau to provide user-friendly dashboards that allow access to data on financial products to 300 staff for use when they out of the office, presenting data to clients using tablet computers.

"From our experience with Tableau Software, we can see that the return on investment is already being delivered," said Gerry Hassett, CEO at Irish Life Retail. "The whole implementation of my dashboards has taken a few weeks and has been a seamless operation. We can now see what is happening on the day-to-day and week-to-week basis which means we can develop our business accordingly and further enhance our competitive edge."

Graham Mulhern, director at MXI Ireland, said: "Tableau Software is an elegant business intelligence solution which is already having a positive impact at Irish Life. Business executives and sales managers are following the emerging trends, seeing new and additional insights into the business information and capitalising on relevant opportunities. From MXI’s viewpoint, Irish Life is a household name and this relationship will have real meaningful effect on our business growth over the next few years, both in terms of sales and employment."

Irish Life plans to take their Tableau interactive dashboards mobile. Users will be able to browse content, access favourite reports and quickly collaborate, all while on the go.

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