ADP CANADA: Cognos Allows Us to Look at Things in Different Ways and Find Real Opportunities
(10/1/2003) CFO Project Volume 2
By Jeff Gerkin, Cognos
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ADP Canada decided to replace its spreadsheet-and-email planning infrastructure with a new solution to streamline budgeting and planning, improve forecasting accuracy, reduce budget cycle time, and pinpoint opportunities for savings. The solution needed to consolidate a large number of cost centers, analyze data, respond to rapid change, and create and amend management reports. “We needed an integrated planning solution with broad functionality,” said Stefan Sarazen, senior finance director. “It had to have the ease-of-use of Excel, which even non-financial types find fairly easy and straightforward. And it had to be able to make changes at a high level and ripple them back through individual plan submissions, as when you reconcile bottom-up and top-down plans.
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