Case Study: Leading Retail Fashion Brand achieves faster financial close (from 12 to 3 man-days) with Datamatics

Leading retail fashion brand incorporates BI reporting for easy data collation from subsidiaries

Leading Retail Fashion Brand, a major ready-to-wear and men's formal wear retailer, faced growing data volumes across subsidiaries, limited visibility into operations and finance, and IT bottlenecks that slowed report creation and financial close. To centralize financial consolidation and reduce pressure on IT, the customer engaged Datamatics to deliver a centralized BI reporting solution built around a SQL Server data warehouse and Datamatics’ nSights BI capabilities.

Datamatics implemented a consolidated data warehouse that ingested SAP, Oracle, BizTalk and Excel sources, provided a DIY GUI and pre-configured BI reports, and automated workflows and notifications. The solution shortened the financial reporting cycle from 12 to 3 man-days (a 75% reduction), cut resource requirements for consolidation, addressed multi-currency and regulatory needs, and enabled faster, self-service insights — with the Leading Retail Fashion Brand now planning to add budgeting and variance analysis.