Client Background
One of the largest global providers of professional services and technology solutions ranging from mainframe computers to nanotechnology. Approximately $81B in revenues and over 377,000 employees worldwide.
Business Challenge
- Effective management of external consultants and bench time
- Difficulty tracking project health and impacts across the large organization
- Data stored in different formats and sourced in 20+ different sub-systems was making integration with their traditional BI Platform too difficult
The Baker Tilly Approach
- Development of a single user interface for search and financial analytics
- Created a discovery application to track project health and allow for identification of problem contracts, negative Gross Profit (GP), GP leakage, and price-to-cost variance
- Developed single interface for structured and unstructured data for 16,000 users
Business Impact
- Improved financial management of the company using all relevant information
- Improved identification of project health and at risk projects
- Significant reduction in profit erosion resulted from increase in utilization of full-time staff
- $500M savings in staffing