Inciper recently worked with an international property agent and facilities management company with over 40,000 people working for them in more than 70 countries. One of the significant obstacles they encountered as part of their global Microsoft Dynamics ERP rollout was financial reporting; with automation, reconciliation and surfacing business insights all proving to be a challenge.
Data & Analytics Strategy & Roadmap
The business wanted to improve the way they visualise and interact with financial data, with a view to making more data driven decisions. As part of the initial engagement with Inciper, a strategy was recommended to ensure the solution being put in place would support current and future reporting and analytics requirements. This approach allowed Inciper to recommend the implementation of a data & analytics solution based on Microsoft’s reference architecture for analytics from Dynamics ERP, leveraging leading edge Azure Data Lake, Azure Synapse Analytics and Power BI technologies as the basis for trend analytics and near real time operational reporting.
Inciper were able to define and agree the technology roadmap aligned to the Dynamics ERP rollout, allowing them to understand the value that would be released at each stage of the data & analytics journey, not only based on ERP data, but also the wider footprint of information assets available to the organisation. The discovery phase, undertaken with key finance stakeholders across Europe, allowed Inciper to understand the key pain points of each country, along with the detailed reporting requirements which would support each country and the wider group with effective, intuitive, interactive finance analytics.
This stakeholder driven approach provides a mechanism to assure the business are getting the outcomes and value that they require as part of the solution implementation.
