"Having the right data in the right format is as critical as having the right system in place, and this was one of the most effective implementations I've been a part of."

"Historically, everyone thought of data as an IT responsibility. But we emphasized to them that the business needs to drive the rules and standards, and there are real implications if the users don’t own the data strategy."

“We realized that there were a few critical data related issues that we needed to address integrity of legacy beginning balances from different systems, correctness of ongoing transactions, and completeness of transactions booked. The situation necessitated a quick diagnostic process followed by speedy follow through action in the form of …

"It would have been too costly to try to convert our legacy system to integrate with a modern technology platform. That was the driver to abandon our 20-year-old system and start from scratch. We knew that to grow with our customer base in the future, we needed technology of the …

“BackOffice has helped us to achieve over 99% load accuracy on-time and on-budget, thereby enabling us to have better reconciliation and be more efficient."

“There were so many barriers and data rules in place within our SAP systems that manually deleting the Canada Bread data in our SAP systems would have been extremely time consuming, costly and difficult without the help of BackOffice Associates.”

“Previously, our validation process was manual and very laborious, but with the centralized portal in place, our time is now spent on value-added work as the automation process is seamless and the reports are available on the portal every morning.”

"We have used other toolsets in some of our processes, but you need to be very technical to work with them effectively. We’re responsible for getting our data into SAP but we’re not technical people. We needed an easy way of uploading data. We were also starting to get backlogs …

“BackOffice’s collaborative, customer-first approach and deep expertise were instrumental in helping us take our data quality standards to the next level with dramatic improvement.”

“Our implementation partner was a key factor in the selection of our EPM platform… CPM Consulting worked with us to streamline our financial consolidation and budgeting process. Rapid implementation methodology, templates and extensive experience helped us to complete our project successfully and in a short time frame.”

"I don't understand why everyone doesn't use Quadrate. Why waste time and money to employ expensive resources to work with your data when there's a toolset available that can do it so quickly and easily?"

"All the careful data planning led us to be smarter about overall resource planning. BackOffice brought solutions, methodology and experts to bridge a critical time in our SAP project and go-live to keep us moving forward and respond faster, better and more efficiently."

"New releases of Quadrate bring new capabilities that are genuinely helpful to us, even improvements based on feedback we have given to BackOffice. A good example is the tools for managing logs. In the early days, we were uploading about 200 materials to SAP every day. This entailed the generation …

"For the business to operate optimally, we count on reliable customer data to ensure we can take orders and distribute based on those orders.”

"The data stewardship process had to change. The BackOffice solution provided us the means to initiate efficiency in the material master for global data at Lilly."