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We are an insurance distribution company, listed on the Australian stock exchange and we have a number of interesting

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businesses mainly in Australia, but also branching offshore into New Zealand, Singapore, London and into Europe.

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The consolidation tool that we originally selected had a use-by life which is coming up very shortly so we chose to look

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at the market again, and look to the number of alternatives, and CCH Tagetik was far and away the number one choice for us to move into.

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We were with SAP on their BPC program. The BPC tool had most of the capability we needed on the consolidation

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but it really struggled to go beyond what I would call the statutory process and actually give us that management

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slicing and dicing of the data. So we often had to take data to Excel to re-reconcile it, to dive into those insights.

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So what we're looking at with CCH Tagetik is to have all that functionality put in together as one. What I was really looking for beyond that, was the innovation phase, 

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or the ability to go beyond, to have that flexibility and structure to cope with whatever problem we want to throw at it and also then look to the future

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so that we knew we could grow and build with it. I always saw it has been a product that had far more

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capability than I ever needed it to have. And the fact that it actually has produced the core functionality but allows us to go further means I would have to

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recommend it to anybody else who is looking at it. I think it's a really good value-for-money proposition with a very long life within a company that

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will emerge to take over the market as the dominant player.