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The main pain points for us were ... we were working with a system that was not

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viable anymore, we had a lot of time requirements and our systems, especially our budgeting system was 

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all excel-based. The costs involved in labor and time were

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tremendous. Our budgeting process took an inordinate amount of time and, in some cases

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we were presenting budget after the budget year had started. Not only did an impact on our internal reports

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but it impacted our production of our audited financial statements.

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We were quite impressed with the team, their knowledge ... they were very attentive to our needs.

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Some of the benefits that we've achieved really relate to the level of granularity that

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we can store in CCH Tagetik. In the past we were not able to do that. There's a tremendous amount of data that

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we are able to access now. For us it's different, it's like another dimension compared to the way we were.

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Our process which was pretty flat, archaic,

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it just doesn't compare to the environment we're in now.

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Right now, we are disseminating CCH Tagetik to all the users and ... they're just going to have everything, they're going to have a financial that they can 

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use in Excel and manipulate. They're going to have access to detailed transactional information, to payroll transactional information.

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So that, for us, I think is also a big benefit, beyond just the budgeting process.

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Getting information in people's hands is also a big deal for us.

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Instantaneous access: we make the changes, run some allocations and the results are there 

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and I think that immediate feedback, instantaneous feedback 

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is what the analysts love.

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It certainly has reduced our close time ... absolutely... and it's taking a big burden off of me, because at the end of every close I used to spend a solid day and a half for so...

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...to organize information, do a balance sheet, do my metrics, etc... come up with summary financial 

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reports, divisional reports, divisional kind of flash information...

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It's really taking a burden off of me ... and we reduce the length of time it takes to do the budget, to do the reporting.

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So ... I love it

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I absolutely would that I could go back in time and get it for some of the other lives that I've been in.