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The world is changing, this is not new but what is new is the speed at which the change occurs. Political and economical context

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is also very difficult for a company like Carmeuse. One of the most important market for Carmeuse is steel and gas, american gas is also very challenging for us. 

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Our legacy consolidation and planning systems were out of maintenance. We were looking for a single interface for both

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consolidation and planning, a tool providing the flexibility that we were lacking in our legacy systems, with integrated reporting tools

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and open to future evolutions. We discovered CCH Tagetik thanks to a CCH Tagetik partner, Element 61.

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Before CCH Tagetik we mainly used SAP systems, we used SAP as business warehouse, we used SAP for the consolidation with BCS

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the business consolidation system, and we use SAP BPC for the planning and finally SAP as reporting tool. The main issue that we faced

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was the rigidity of the tool, it was not possible to add new scenarios to perform sub consolidation, 

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it was not possible to have a cash flow report, no internal reporting during the consolidation or planning process, so these were really the challenges

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that we had with the old systems. The characteristic of the software vendor that we were looking for were really the long-term vision,

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it was the most important, a very good customer support, also the ability to provide evolution to follow the market 

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and the regulations rules in order to be on the page at every moment. What is unique in this new configuration is that we have

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spread the responsibility by main region and then finally at the group level, so this is really a big change compared to the previous 

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consolidation application. Another very important change is the reporting, now the users can use CCH Tagetik reporting in order to make some controls

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of their data before finalizing the consolidation or the planning, and also the graphical workflow really just amazing. 

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If I would recommend CCH Tagetik to somebody else, as we say in brussels, 'Non peut-être' which means 'Yes, of course'.