Case Study: Addleshaw Goddard achieves instant management reporting and unified BI, planning and forecasting with Board

A consolidated approach to BI, Planning and Reporting at Addleshaw Goddard LLP

Addleshaw Goddard is a 1,300‑person international law firm serving FTSE 100 companies and other major clients across the UK, GCC and Asia. The firm needed to replace legacy financial planning and reporting tools to improve data visibility, speed up decision‑making and support a move to a managed datacentre—monthly management reports could take an analyst up to two days and partners depended on ad‑hoc requests to Finance.

AG selected BOARD after an RFP and POC and rolled the solution out in three phases: role‑based dashboards for 800+ fee‑earners and staff, a three‑month replacement of TM1/Cognos for management reporting, and a driver‑based budget and forecast module. The result is self‑service access and a single version of the truth, multi‑currency reporting, management packs produced in minutes rather than days, reduced reliance on Finance/MI teams, and a full deployment delivered in about 14 months.

Addleshaw Goddard

Donna Cariss

Systems Accountant