Case Study: Florida Institute of Technology achieves 60%+ faster reporting and frees 25% of IT support with Global Software, Inc.'s Spreadsheet Server

Florida Institute of Technology - Customer Case Study

Florida Institute of Technology struggled with reporting from its Banner ERP, which wasn’t configured as a financial system. Monthly data required dumping an entire fiscal year and sorting by date, making trend analysis and forecasting difficult. The institute faced challenges accessing applicable data, manual multi-step processes, heavy reliance on IT, slow report creation, and complex external/GASB and NCAA reporting requirements.

The school implemented Global Software’s Spreadsheet Server, using its QueryDesigner and Excel-based tools to pull live ERP data for financial aid, tuition, expenses, budgets, audits and board reporting. As a result, reporting efficiency improved (data retrieval up over 50%), IT support time was reduced by up to 25%, and reporting time dropped by more than 60% compared with the prior process.

Florida Institute of Technology

Susan Denyer

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