End-to-end reporting capabilities save 75% time month-on-month for the finance team of an F1000 biopharmaceutical company
Problem
The client’s budget & control division was utilizing multiple datasets from various financial source systems for tracking and reporting budget variance.
- The data analysis for month-on-month financial reporting involved a manual process that was time-consuming and cumbersome, with recurring and costly delays in critical reports
- The teams were very comfortable with the existing process and did not want to expend training time and cost to switch to entirely new technology.
The client wanted a solution to ensure that budget variance tracking was up-to-date. It also needed to be easy for the teams to adopt.
Solution
MResult developed and delivered a full-scope BI strategy and solution with end-to-end reporting capabilities that:
- Was augmented with an extended Centre-of-Excellence (CoE) team to support reporting requirements, so the client's teams could focus on their core function
- Identified areas for automation and automated data aggregation from various systems to a centralized data mart.
- Was easy to adopt by internal teams
Impact
The new solution with self-serve features: