Customer Case Studies

Customer Profile | 1 Executive Summary Results with Sage Intacct: • So ware paid for itself in <6 months • Streamlined financial processes for greater efficiency • Gained ability to track budgets and other financial trends in real-time • Eliminated need for hardware and IT support <3 months A er comparing Sage Intacct with NetSuite, we chose Sage Intacct for its best-in-class financial solution that was built by CPAs to meet specialized accounting needs. We especially love Sage Intacct's dimensions-based approach, which has greatly simplified our chart of accounts, and is flexible enough to track all of the detail we need and evolve with our organization over time. –Julie Suderman, Associate Commissioner, Finance, Big Ten Conference Gaining Flexibility and Reliability with Cloud ERP Known as one of intercollegiate sports' most successful undertakings, the Big Ten formed over a century ago in the Midwest United States. Today, its conference office manages 28 different championships and tournaments, offers legislative and compliance services, oversees the production and distribution of nearly 1,400 events annually, provides staff services to coaching and administrative personnel, and services media and fans interest for information on the Big Ten. Previously, the Big Ten Conference back office used on-premises accounting so ware, but struggled to keep up with its growing transactions. Because the system required a complicated chart of accounts and several manual workarounds each month, it had become error-prone. The finance team also had li le confidence in the reliability of the older so ware, which had to be housed on physical servers with limited remote access. They went in search of a more flexible, cloud-based general ledger that could offer anytime, anywhere availability and reduce the IT department's burden. Best-in-Class Financial Automation Boosts Productivity A er selecting and implementing Sage Intacct's cloud ERP solution, the Big Ten transitioned all of its financial processes onto the intuitive system. Replacing a hard-coded structure, Sage Intacct's flexible dimension capability helped the organization refresh and dramatically simplify its chart of accounts—giving the team an entirely new way to track and report on financial data. Julie Suderman, associate commissioner of finance at the Big Ten Conference, commented, "With Sage Intacct's dimensions, we can map things to how we practically manage our business. Once we create a dimension, we can use it to categorize any transaction – general ledger, receivables, payables, etc. – and as our business changes, it's quick and easy to add the dimensions we need and re-classify things accordingly, so we can monitor what's most important to us." The biggest efficiency improvement the Big Ten has seen with Sage Intacct is in its financial reporting. This whole process is much faster and more accurate now that report preparation is done right in the so ware, Case Study: Big Ten

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