Case Study: National Heritage Academies achieves 91% faster report generation with Global Software, Inc.'s Spreadsheet Server

National Heritage Academies - Customer Case Study

National Heritage Academies (NHA), a rapidly growing public charter school management organization serving over 50,000 students, was spending excessive time and IT resources producing monthly reports. Their accounting team relied on Lawson Business Intelligence and IT support to build and drill into reports, a slow, manual process that could take about an hour per school and limited users’ ability to access detailed data independently.

NHA implemented Spreadsheet Server with Distribution Manager and Global Support to turn Excel into a dynamically integrated reporting tool for Lawson. This enabled self-service access from the General Ledger through AP invoice detail, automated distribution of reports and ACH payments, and eliminated repeated drilling into Lawson. The change cut report time from ~1 hour to ~5 minutes per school — a 91% improvement in report generation speed.

National Heritage Academies

Laura McDowell

Accounting Systems Analyst