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Case Study - AON.pdf
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Aon Consulting is a leading employee benefits and risk management firm
– a division of Aon Corp., the Chicago-based provider of risk management
services, insurance and reinsurance, and human capital consulting. From
a center of excellence in Brussels, Belgium, Aon Consulting consolidates
pensions and benefits accounting data for clients across the EMEA (Europe,
Middle East and Africa) region, enabling the client companies to accurately
report benefits information in their annual accounts.
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Case Study - Bama.pdf
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The Bama Companies Inc. supplies baked goods to many of the best-known restaurant chains and food-service organizations in the United States and abroad. Throughout the last decade Bama, based in Tulsa, Okla., has practiced the Six Sigma methodology to reduce defects in manufacturing, and it has won the Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award. Growing steadily while retaining its commitment to quality, the company continually looks for ways to refine its business processes, and its people rely on data as a critical resource for improving them.
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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 and maintains luxury resorts, rental properties
and recreational facilities located on the Atlantic coast in southern Georgia.
The company must manage a variety of operations, including hospitality, food
and beverage, and real estate. Balancing all these businesses, as well as
managing 1,600 employees, requires complex financial planning and timely
information to assist in making decisions that impact profitability. Growing
rapidly, Sea Island needed more flexible reporting and analysis for budget
and planning functions than it could get from the accounting system in its
enterprise resource planning (ERP) platform.
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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 - 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 origination 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 - SBA Communications.pdf
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SBA Communications owns and operates wireless communications towers across North America and also helps wireless service providers develop their own networks. SBA’s financial organization oversees both of those business lines and consists of some 25 departments and more than 100 business entities. Each department has to create and manage a budget for selling, general and administrative (SG&A) expenses.
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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 - Thule.pdf
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Thule Vehicle Accessories North America is a division of a global manufacturer best known in the U.S. for its vehicle load-carrying systems such as roof racks, rooftop boxes and bicycle carriers. Committed to high quality and continuous innovation in their products, all units of Thule also strive for efficiency and teamwork in their business processes.
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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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