Case study

Resource exploration company: board budget reporting 90% faster across 100+ projects

Data

The situation

With more than 100 exploration projects to budget each financial year, ten globally dispersed project managers built their forecasts across a chain of MS Project and Excel spreadsheets. The board then expected a monthly actual-versus-forecast update. The process was slow, error prone, and had no real data security.

What we built

Emendo built a custom Quickbase app to create and modify budget-versus-actual data and report it straight to the board. Native Quickbase roles gave each user access to only the data they needed, audit controls replaced the tangle of spreadsheet versions, and multiple project managers could work on shared projects at the same time.

The result

The cloud-based solution cut the time to create and validate board-level monthly reporting by 90%, with proper access control and an audit trail in place of "which spreadsheet is current".

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