Power BI Financial Reporting for AliBaba

Alibaba Achieves 37% Faster Financial Closings With Power BI Reporting

An optimized Power BI solution transforming Alibaba’s financial operations and generating timely and accurate month-end closings for over 100,000 brands and 30 million shoppers.

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2012 - Pakistan

Ecommerce

Over 10,000 employees

About The Client

Alibaba

Daraz is the leading e-commerce platform across South Asia. After their advent as an online fashion retailer in 2012, they quickly expanded their business portfolio to a comprehensive online marketplace by 2015 and in 2018, they made a big move by becoming part of Alibaba’s expansive global footprint that enabled them to utilize Alibaba’s expertise in technology, logistics, and digital payments. Today, their platform proudly house 30 million active shoppers, supporting transactions for more than 200,000 active sellers and over 100,000 branded/non-branded products to sell.

The Challenge

Navigating Data At Scale

With 1000s of suppliers and shoppers to serve and products to sell, Alibaba's processes a continuous flow of financial data in terms of transactions, vendor settlements, and their outstanding balances, which seemed difficult with massive datasets in place.

The massive volume and complexity of data led to performance issues within their reporting infrastructure

Difficulty generating critical financial reports in a timely manner, slowing down operations

Their old method of reporting struggled to ensure the accuracy of financial reports, leading to ambiguous insights

Achieving smooth and precise month end financial closings became a mess and time-consuming process

OUR SOLUTION

Optimized Power BI Reporting

Folio3 partnered with Alibaba to build a high-performance reporting solution using Microsoft Power BI. The approach was mainly focused on implementing advanced performance optimization techniques catering Alibaba’s large and complex dataset environment. The key aspects of our solution were:

Deep Data Model

We designed Alibaba’s Power BI data models to cater huge data volumes efficiently, reducing redundant calculations and boosting data retrieval speeds.

Advanced DAX Query Tuning

Our Power BI experts refined Data Analysis Expressions (DAX) queries, turning complicated calculations into highly efficient formulas that processed data faster with more reliability.

Strategic Data Integration

We optimized data integration from Alibaba’s various data source systems to Power BI to maintain data integrity and freshness.

Business Outcomes

The implementation of Folio3's high-impact Power BI reporting solution delivered measurable benefits supporting Alibaba’s financial operations and large marketplace ecosystem:

Expedited Financial Closings

Smooth and timely end-of-month financial closings were made possible, eliminating perfo...

Expedited Financial Closings

Smooth and timely end-of-month financial closings were made possible, eliminating performance bottlenecks.

Enhanced Reporting Accuracy

The data optimization techniques significantly improved the accuracy of financial reports, resu...

Enhanced Reporting Accuracy

The data optimization techniques significantly improved the accuracy of financial reports, resulting in reliable insights into vendor settlements and remaining balances.

Scalable Reporting Foundation

The robust Power BI reporting provides scalable and opportunities for growth, esp...

Scalable Reporting Foundation

The robust Power BI reporting provides scalable and opportunities for growth, especially for companies like Alibaba with a massive online marketplace footprint.

Alibaba Achieves 37% Faster Financial Closings With Power BI Reporting

An optimized Power BI solution transforming Alibaba’s financial operations and generating timely and accurate month-end closings for over 100,000 brands and 30 million shoppers.

2012 - Pakistan

Ecommerce

Over 10,000 employees

Alibaba

Navigating Data At Scale

The massive volume and complexity of data led to performance issues within their reporting infrastructure

Difficulty generating critical financial reports in a timely manner, slowing down operations

Their old method of reporting struggled to ensure the accuracy of financial reports, leading to ambiguous insights

Achieving smooth and precise month end financial closings became a mess and time-consuming process

OUR SOLUTION

Optimized Power BI Reporting

Folio3 partnered with Alibaba to build a high-performance reporting solution using Microsoft Power BI. The approach was mainly focused on implementing advanced performance optimization techniques catering Alibaba’s large and complex dataset environment. The key aspects of our solution were:

Deep Data Model

Advanced DAX Query Tuning

Strategic Data Integration

Business Outcomes

Expedited Financial Closings

Expedited Financial Closings

Enhanced Reporting Accuracy

Enhanced Reporting Accuracy

Scalable Reporting Foundation

Scalable Reporting Foundation

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Alibaba Achieves 37% Faster Financial Closings With Power BI Reporting

An optimized Power BI solution transforming Alibaba’s financial operations and generating timely and accurate month-end closings for over 100,000 brands and 30 million shoppers.

2012 - Pakistan

Ecommerce

Over 10,000 employees

Alibaba

Navigating Data At Scale

The massive volume and complexity of data led to performance issues within their reporting infrastructure

Difficulty generating critical financial reports in a timely manner, slowing down operations

Their old method of reporting struggled to ensure the accuracy of financial reports, leading to ambiguous insights

Achieving smooth and precise month end financial closings became a mess and time-consuming process

OUR SOLUTION

Optimized Power BI Reporting

Folio3 partnered with Alibaba to build a high-performance reporting solution using Microsoft Power BI. The approach was mainly focused on implementing advanced performance optimization techniques catering Alibaba’s large and complex dataset environment. The key aspects of our solution were:

Deep Data Model

Advanced DAX Query Tuning

Strategic Data Integration

Business Outcomes

Expedited Financial Closings

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Enhanced Reporting Accuracy

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Scalable Reporting Foundation

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Take A Seamless Cloud Ride With Us!

Get the power to boost your business, innovation, and growth.

Schedule a 1:1 Call Today

Get in touch with our team to solve your Azure queries

US Office

UAE OFFICE

UK OFFICE

Mexico Office

Pakistan Office

Canada Office

Bulgaria Office

Expedited Financial Closings

Enhanced Reporting Accuracy

Scalable Reporting Foundation