Step 3 of 4: Using AI

We call it realistic intelligence.

With a meaningful database and a reliable way to keep it accurate, the next step is putting it to work. That is where AI pays off: not for exotic goals, but for better operating results.

The PEP AI Pipeline

Everything about your labor in one file, ready for any AI model.

PEP stores its data in Btrieve files: secure, but complicated to work with. The Pipeline converts them into one simplified SQL database, PEPALL.DB, without interrupting PEP’s normal processing.

Your management team and your own AI specialist can then build dashboards, answer queries, and run deeper AI analysis of trends and future projections.

What clients do with PEPALL.DB

Dashboards

In Tableau, Google Looker, Salesforce, Workday or the tool you already use.

Queries

One-off questions answered with SQL, free tools like SQLite, or an AI model.

AI analysis

Trends over time and projections of what comes next.

1Pick a weekChoose any week’s PEP backup from the list on your network.
2ConvertThe Pipeline unzips it and converts PEP’s Btrieve files to an open SQL format.
3CombineTables are joined automatically into one file, PEPALL.DB.
4AskQuery it with your own AI model, free tools like SQLite, or your reporting system.

Gathered by PEP

Time clock punches

Department transfers

WMS volumes

HR records

Quality and incentives

PEPALL.DBOne file, every table joined. The latest week in a Live folder, earlier weeks archived. Data dictionary included.

Your choice of tool

Your own AI model

Tableau and Google Looker

Salesforce and Workday

SQLite and SQL queries

From a closed reporting system to an open, queryable data platform.

Included free with PEP for every client, current and new. Install it on any computer on your network; access stays under your own IT controls.

Already in use: a PEP client builds Tableau dashboards and runs one-off queries on its PEP data today.