Case Study: GeoEye achieves real-time budgeting and slashes processing time from 8 hours to minutes with Hubble

Eye In The Sky Improves Budgeting On The Ground

GeoEye, a leading provider of geospatial information with 750 employees and $356M in revenue (2011), faced a slow, error-prone budgeting process. Relying on JD Edwards and Excel, the company struggled to bridge top‑down forecasts and bottom‑up detail, distribute understandable reports to business users, and make rapid executive decisions — a process that spanned 45 steps and often took more than eight hours.

By implementing InsightUnlimited Budgeting alongside their existing reporting solution, GeoEye consolidated real‑time actuals, budgets and forecasts into a single, user-friendly system. The change enabled collaboration across 70 budget owners, cut budget production from hours to minutes, reduced the process to five steps, and improved productivity, communication and visibility for senior management.

GeoEye

Bill Riviere

Director of Enterprise Financial Systems