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Case Study - CEA.pdf
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Competing in the global business environment can be complex, and the complications increase as your business grows. A company that can't monitor its revenue and spending for planning purposes will find it difficult to manage international activities. That was the case for Cultural Experiences Abroad (CEA), which specializes in study abroad programs for college students from the United States and Canada.
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Case Study - Sea Island Company.pdf
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The Sea Island Company owns a group of luxury resorts and recreational facilities located on the Atlantic coast in southern Georgia. As the company expanded, so did its need for current, reliable information. The Sea Island Company was looking for a system that could provide more flexibility in budgeting and reporting. It would have to be affordable and easy to learn and use, and it would have to work with the existing ERP system. The Host Analytics CPM Suite was successful in bridging the gap between Excel and the ERP system while minimizing user adoption issues.
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Case Study - Otis Spunkmeyer.pdf
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Otis Spunkmeyer, Inc., is known nation wide for its cookies and muffins, often seen at retail stores, food-service facilities, catered functions and fundraising events. Behind the whimsical name and the sweet baked goods, however, is a complex business that faces challenges to plan and budget in today's volatile economy. For more information, see a video with customer highlights on Otis Spunkmeyer, Inc.
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Case Study - Genlyte Philips.pdf
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Businesses – and especially finance departments – don’t like disruptions to their regular operations. It can be a particularly frustrating situation when a software vendor presses users to migrate from an old but still functional application that the business is comfortable with using. That happened a few years ago to the Genlyte Group, who decided to replace the old software. Host Analytics was chosen because of their knowledge and understanding of the financial and accounting side of business in addition to technology.
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Case Study - Sigmatel.pdf
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As one of the fastest growing companies in the semiconductor space, SigmaTel’s goal was to create a streamlined, global budgeting, planning and consolidation model. Host Analytics has improved the top-down and bottoms-up budgeting and planning process, eased global financial consolidations, and provided employees with visibility to their performance against strategic corporate goals.
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Case Study - MWH Global.pdf
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MWH Global is using Host Budget as a strategic business tool to track the progress toward meeting global, strategic objectives. The Host Budget solution is being used by almost 300 employees across the organization, from finance to operations to consolidate budgets in a timely manner. After evaluating several vendors in this category, MWH selected Host Analytics for their total cost of ownership, ease of implementation, user-friendliness and their proven hosted solution business model.
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Case Study - McCoys.pdf
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McCoy’s is in the retail business and clearly recognized the value in creating a new level of accountability at each retail store. The organization looked to Host Analytics for their budgeting and scorecarding solution to help them increase their revenues and meet new sales growth targets.
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Case Study - DHI Mortgage.pdf
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Host Budget is used to ease the budgeting and planning of DHI Mortgage’s high-growth mortgage banking business. Before Host Budget, the 54 branch managers at DHI Mortgage did not have the means to effectively budget and plan. The P&L reports were cumbersome to prepare and not timely. There was a need to break out detailed budget information such as annual workforce fluctuations but with Excel spreadsheets, this was difficult. The time it took to consolidate budgets from multiple branches was not acceptable considering the growth pace. Branch managers’ ability to model fluctuations in loan originations throughout the year was near impossible.
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Case Study - JPMorganChase.pdf
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Host Analytics software is used by the IT organization inside JPMorganChase. The group leverages Host Budget’s “Project Module” to dynamically manage IT projects and resources in a fast paced, rapidly changing environment. The scope of their budget includes multi-year plans of full-time employees as well as nonemployee related costs such as hardware, software, infrastructure and travel. JPMC utilizes project portfolio management processes which help them categorize and manage the priority of their projects. Host Budget enables the ability to management multiple inter-related projects. In the previous spreadsheet environment it was difficult to enforce business rules and provide multi user editing of the plan.
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Case Study - Signet Armorlite.pdf
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With global operations in multiple countries, obtaining visibility to detailed budget vs. actuals and forecast data for each division inside of SignetArmorlite was not an easy task. The company looked to Host Analytics to solve their budgeting issues first. Historically, the company used Excel spreadsheets for global budgeting, but the level of information only touched the surface of what was needed to budget effectively. As questions about the data came up, emails would fly back and forth from finance to different divisions. There was little to no transparency.
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Case Study - Procter and Gamble.pdf
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Procter and Gamble’s Western European region knew they had to do something to improve the speed and accuracy of the budget preparation and reforecasting process. They were in need of replacing their current budget and planning system which consisted of hundreds of spreadsheets. The old system was very labor intensive and lacked the latest technology to integrate processes and align the business units. Many hours were spent integrating data from their SAP ERP application, a Collaboration Software Package, and their budget and plan spreadsheets.
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Case Study - Paramount Farms.pdf
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Paramount Farms is one of the world’s largest suppliers of pistachios and almonds to companies like Sunkist. The budgeting process at Paramount consisted of merging a host of Excel spreadsheets together which was error prone and not an efficient use of the budget manager’s time. The company needed to integrate their legacy systems and reports to deliver a solid, annual plant budgeting process which included the analysis of cost drivers such as workforce costs, plant costs, shipping, etc.
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Case Study - City of Vancouver.pdf
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Vancouver, Washington, has a population of more than 162,000 people who are proud of their rich heritage, friendly neighborhoods, vibrant economy and high-quality services. Vancouver sits on the north bank of the Columbia River directly across from Portland, Oregon, and combines the excitement of a major metropolitan area with small-town charm and abundant recreational opportunities. To maintain such a strong community, the city has adopted strategic planning and business planning processes that allow the city leadership to determine the best ways to continually improve the city and its services.
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Case Study - Airborn.pdf |
| All too often, businesses in growth mode – especially those growing by acquisitions – run into barriers posed by legacy information systems. An acquired company’s systems may be incompatible with the parent’s, and they may be outdated or otherwise incapable of performing required functions. This situation typically forces the acquirer to undertake time-consuming technology integration projects or spend unplanned budget on replacing the acquisition’s systems with those currently in place.
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