Case Study: Natural England achieves streamlined corporate performance reporting and cost savings with OpenText Analytics (Actuate)

Actuate & Europartnership breathe new life into Natural England’s performance data

Natural England, the public body that looks after England’s natural environment, needed better corporate reporting and monitoring after its CEO identified these as critical to delivering strategy and performance goals. The organisation faced the challenge of integrating its founding parts into a coherent three‑year corporate plan and adopting world‑class performance management for corporate plan reporting, financial reporting, risk and project management, while avoiding high implementation costs and ongoing external dependence.

Actuate partner Europartnership delivered a tailored, internally manageable solution built on Actuate’s Performance Management suite and e.Spreadsheet, providing cascaded team‑and‑outcome reporting, exception and financial reports, a corporate risk register, project and employee performance reporting, graphical views and web‑based briefing books, plus data interchange and training. The result was lower reporting costs, faster and simpler reporting, better risk oversight, clearer presentation and stronger internal cohesion and identity — a change the CEO called “a seminal moment in the history of Natural England.”

Natural England

Helen Philips

CEO, Natural England