| Happy customers “Management has much greater capacity to do accurate financial planning, so all our business customers are a lot happier.” Chief Financial Officer, Aevum | |
| Happy staff “The finance team was actually applauded. I think it was the relief of having something that did what they needed it to do, and so effectively.” Manager, Management Information Systems, University of New South Wales | |
| Ahead of the game “We are now able to capture more data, more accurately, more often with more detail giving us much better insight into the business. We feel this puts us way ahead of the game, and we can't imagine how we ever operated without CALUMO.” Management Information Analyst, Ramsay Health Care | |
| Rapid implementation “I've worked with a number of applications over the years and it always amazes me how much time, resources and money organisations invest in planning, analysis and reporting systems. We were able to implement a complete Business Performance Management system (CALUMO) in effectively 6 weeks, using in-house staff and existing hardware. Our only additional capital cost was the software licenses.” Manager Financial Services, State Rail Authority | |
| Better productivity “The end result is better productivity and more time for staff members to serve others.” Executive Manager, People & Learning, Teachers Health | |
| Impressive cost savings “It was far cheaper [than the original financial reporting application]. We saved $30,000 in fees, and even taking account of the investment in the original system, we still have a lower average cost over time.” Manager, Management Information Systems, University of New South Wales | |
| Simple learning curve “We had five weeks to implement the system from scratch, so we needed an easy-to-use system in order to implement the product, develop it, and train 150 users.” Systems Manager, Energy Retailer | |
| Saving 52 days a year “a 20% saving on developing management accounts... [we are] always able to review regional profitability online... sales forecasting automation is now available 'on-demand' and we have saved 52 days a year.” Executive Partner, McKinney Rogers | |
| Freeing up time for business analysts “Flexibility was also paramount. We have complex customer and product hierarchies, both internal and external - and with this solution it's just a matter of drag and drop and it's done. Users are more self-sufficient, thus freeing up the time of our business analysts.” Financial Controller, Johnson & Johnson | |
| Demolish yearly budgets “Doing a yearly budget with 60 cost centers used to generate a mountain of spreadsheets. Because of the write-back feature in CALUMO, I can experiment with input data, comparing it with general ledger information without any danger of polluting the original data.” Chief Financial Officer, Aevum | |
| Identify issues, take immediate action “The performance management system is a massive benefit to the finance team and the university as a whole. It means we can do high-quality analysis very quickly, identify issues and take immediate action.” Manager, Management Information Systems, University of New South Wales | |
| A catalyst for positive change “This project has and will continue to be the catalyst for very positive change at UNSW. Our team, with CALUMO's expert guidance, is delivering a platform that enables us to maximise the financial resources available to support our teaching and research priorities more effectively and at speed. The time frame from commencement to yielding real business value has been astonishingly short. Our environment is very demanding and complex; the flexibility and performance of CALUMO has been excellent. It's a breath of fresh air for our user community and we're also proud to be supporting world-class Australian innovation in Business Intelligence.” Garry McLennan, CFO at University of NSW | |
| Staff don't have to stay until 9pm “I can redeploy staff from low-value to high-value tasks. The system has reduced the time taken to produce board reports from 12 hours to 30 minutes, and my staff don't have to stay here until 9pm.” Chief Financial Officer, Aevum | |
| Saving one week every month “Just managing data on the new system saves us the equivalent of one week per month.” Manager, Management Information Systems, University of New South Wales | |
| Good first impressions “[CALUMO] were much more straightforward than some of the other vendors we spoke to and they were more convincing. Plus their costing was good.” Executive Manager, People & Learning, Teachers Health | |
| Issues quickly remedied “The implementation process itself presented a number of challenges, but in each instance, the CALUMO team stepped up and remedied all our issues in a timely manner.” Management Information Analyst, Ramsay Health Care | |
| Analyse data from different systems “I can combine general ledger information with a set of forecasts for a potential acquisition from a completely different system. This really helps the business understand the financial implications of a particular acquisition.” Chief Financial Officer, Aevum | |
| Secure web access “It's very dynamic. Staff don't have to be on site to do their analysis or devise their reports. And in terms of security, this application is very safe. Access is managed at the web-browser level, combining SQL security with single sign on through CALUMO and Microsoft Active Directory.” Manager, Management Information Systems, University of New South Wales | |
| A friendly web experience “The web browser interface allows managers, who have little IT training, to interrogate finance and business data remotely, while the finance department gets to control who sees what.” Chief Financial Officer, Aevum | |
| Get what you need “With the [CALUMO] solution we have what we need, and our investment in the product has already paid for itself.” Financial Controller, Johnson & Johnson Medical | |
| Project success “This implementation would be one of the most successful IT application projects that the Corporation has experienced to date.” Gary Rolph, Port of Brisbane Corporation | |