Case Study: BAE Systems achieves integrated, collaborative financial planning and real-time forecasting with KCI Computing's CONTROL

CONTROL brings new era of integrated, collaborative financial management

BAE Systems faced complex, long-duration defense contracts and found its homegrown financial system unable to capture key data, integrate with Oracle, or provide multi-dimensional views needed for accurate planning and accountability. To replace that fragmented approach and include balance-sheet items across the organization, BAE Systems selected KCI Computing and its CONTROL financial planning solution.

KCI Computing implemented CONTROL as a centralized, multi-dimensional database and forecasting platform, enabling consolidated planning, drill-down analysis, and collaborative input from business development, program control, and finance. The KCI Computing solution delivered measurable results: faster reporting (report development shrank from three weeks with two people to two–three days with one person), improved forecasting of revenue, cash, billings and WIP, and greater accuracy, ownership, and decision-making across the enterprise.

BAE Systems

John White

Director of Financial Planning