Friedrich-Schiller-University Jean

Standards and Trade Development Facility

STDF is a global partnership established by FAO, OIE, the World Bank, the WHO and the WTO. STDF supports developing countries in building their capacity to establish and implement international sanitary and phytosanitary standards (SPS), ensuring health protection and facilitating trade expansion. They use D-Sight’s tools in a variety of developing countries to establish priorities between competing SPS investments. More information about the collaboration between D-Sight and STDF can be found at www.standardsfacility.org and in the case study.

Fluxys

Fluxys makes extensive use of fiber optic cables in order to manage all gas usage communications (e.g. measure, remote control, etc.) Fluxys had to buy hundreds of miles of new cables of various capacities (ranging from 8 to 144 fibers per cable) to renew part of its optical network. By using D-Sight, the team was able to conduct a faster offer evaluation process. While saving their time, D-Sight gave them the possibility to immediately get a global idea of what the providers offered. Furthermore, as the team held progress meetings, the interaction between the buyer and the engineer was significantly improved. Indeed, the interactive interface of D-Sight allows the stakeholders to easily understand the results. The numerous tools available within D-Sight allow for a more profound offer comparison. By empowering the users to perform sensitivity analysis, the stakeholders are comforted in their choices and can easily and rigorously justify them. In addition, D-Sight provides a results export feature for simple report creation.

Region Wallonne

The Walloon Region is one of the three Regions that make up the Federal Belgian State, the other two being the Flemish Region and the Brussels-Capital Region. The Walloon Region has an area of 16,844 km² (55.18% of Belgium) with nearly 3.5 million inhabitants (32.4% of the Belgian population). D-Sight developed a tailor-made plugin, based on D-Sight Desktop, with a automated integration of an existing database in order to gather and analyze data with a customized reporting system.