Business Intelligence:  Financial Operations & Project Analytics
Case Study

Business intelligence: Financial operations and project analytics

Modern business intelligence solution provides project analytics to track project health, leverage structured and unstructured data and improve financial operations
Business Intelligence:  Financial Operations & Project Analytics
Case Study

Business intelligence: Financial operations and project analytics

Modern business intelligence solution provides project analytics to track project health, leverage structured and unstructured data and improve financial operations

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
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