"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 can now clearly show our business users how and where their legacy data would result in an error when put through the transformations and validations of the target system.”

“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 …

“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.”

"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?"

"We mostly run Mirroring operations on DBMoto, sourcing data from the applications that run on the AS/400 and feeding it to SQL Server. We have approximately 200 active mirroring operations that run continuously. Many of these we run at 10 times the design speed, i.e., we read the IBM i …

"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 …

"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 …

"Knowing interrelationships and dependencies of SAP and how they affect data quality is the value BackOffice Associates brings to its clients. The BOA solution allowed us to identify and correct issues much faster than would have otherwise been possible."

"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."

"Failure was not an option. We had to go-live on the appointed day since the consequences for the many companies impacted would have been too significant to imagine and endure...I am confident that significant manual effort reduction was possible due to BackOffice Associates being there. This, in turn, was key …

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

“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.”