Case Study: Cape Consumers achieves streamlined budgeting and faster, BI-driven decision-making with IDU (idu-Concept)

IDU impresses Cape Consumers with seamless implementation and service

Cape Consumers, a long-established credit provider with more than R1 billion turnover, needed to move away from error-prone spreadsheets to a professional budgeting and reporting system to support a new growth strategy. After meeting IDU and learning about their idu-Concept solution, Cape Consumers selected IDU to replace manual version-controlled spreadsheets and decentralise budgeting so business unit leaders could take ownership.

IDU implemented idu-Concept with a clear scoping workshop, project plan, hands-on training and Sage-Accpac integration, and Cape Consumers upgraded to the Enterprise package with Business Intelligence after just three months. The IDU deployment eliminated spreadsheet version-control problems, improved data integrity and buy-in (about half of the 30 staff use it regularly), enabled decentralised budgeting and real-time BI analysis, and cut budgeting cycles from months to weeks.

Cape Consumers

Monty Stephenson

Financial Director