Kevin Crosby, Fairfield-Maxwell: Fairfield-Maxwell Ltd., we operate very similar to a private equity. We’re a company that has a lot of different investments on different ERP systems, so you needed a system that can easily get the files necessary to load into this centralized database, and easily report off of that database with a small team.
We first used Anaplan for our consolidation platform and we expanded it to providing a dashboard for our executive management team.
Some of our challenges with the spreadsheet consolidation process we had previously was a lack of the ability to do a journal entry into the spreadsheet properly and have an audit control system in that consolidation process.
Now we have a much more controlled process. The consolidation goes a lot smoother. Before, it was 15-plus days to close our books. Now we’re closing in six days. It’s basically the heartbeat of our organization. We are able to do much more with less personnel and faster as plug-and-play as we get an acquisition.
My name is Kevin Crosby. I’m the Chief Operating Officer at Fairfield-Maxwell Ltd., and we consolidate with Anaplan.
