The Ministry of Social Affairs, Study Department, is responsible for gathering statistical and financial information, analysing the evolution and consolidating the numbers coming from all social agencies. This assures quality control and centralised reporting for all decision-makers within the Ministry, political cabinets, Social Security Agency management, etc.

The DABAS Application contains information on the evolution of revenues and the split in money distribution between the different agencies. The Ministry use the application Planning of Infor and Essbase for this application, and the models developed are used for the analysis and reporting of all the data.

Twice a year, a so-called "Vade Mecum" is printed from the Planning models - a binder of more than a hundred reports and statistics - and distributed among the different agencies and other users. The application EIS of Infor allows public officers, both internal and external to the Ministry, to access the information and compute their own ratios.

"The application is always changing. Any decision taken at political level pushes us to revise data, re-analyse information, produce new reports, but to still assure continuity in the actual numbers, comparisons and evolution. Only a flexible and multidimensional system such as the application Infor Planning, Essbase & Infor EIS allows us to constantly modify data, structures and reports the way we need it."

Martine Van Lathem and Peter Lelie, Responsible of DABAS