Construction Company Gets Strategic with the Use of Spreadsheet Server

The business challenges that led C.A. Hull Company to evaluate and ultimately select insightsoftware’s Spreadsheet Server:

• Experienced the following pain points prior to implementing Spreadsheet Server:

  • Lacking access to real-time information

  • It took too much time to make simple format changes and add new GL accounts.

• Evaluated the following reporting tools before choosing Spreadsheet Server:

  • A Business Intelligence (BI) solution

  • A reporting tool packaged with ERP

• Supplemental reporting tools used with Spreadsheet Server:

  • A data warehouse solution

• Selected Spreadsheet Server over the competition because of the following:

  • Flexibility to connect to multiple systems and outside General Ledger

  • Employees and support

  • Excel-based Interface

  • Quick implementation time

Uses Spreadsheet Sever for Financial / General Ledger reporting and the following modules:

• Bidding analysis

C.A. Hull Company achieved the following results with insightsoftware:

• Benefits received from Spreadsheet Server:

  • Faster, streamlined report creation

  • Improved data accuracy

  • Faster access to live data to make strategic decisions

• Reporting processes streamlined with Spreadsheet Server:

  • Data extraction from an ERP or relational database

  • Month-end close and management/board reporting packages

  • Reporting outside the general ledger, inventory, manufacturing, sales, purchasing, projects, etc.

• Actions or business insights gained using Spreadsheet Server:

  • Increased their ability to complete tactical and complex analysis