Case Study: Big Ten Conference achieves real-time, organization-wide financial visibility with Sage Intacct

Sage is top of the league for Big Ten Conference

The Big Ten Conference, a more than 120‑year‑old leader in intercollegiate athletics that manages nearly 1,400 events annually, struggled with an on‑premises accounting system that required a complex chart of accounts, manual workarounds, limited remote access, and significant IT support. The finance team needed a more flexible, reliable cloud-based general ledger to improve accuracy, accessibility, and reporting.

They implemented Sage Intacct’s cloud ERP, using its dimensions to simplify the chart of accounts, automate reporting, and enable real‑time budget and trend analysis. The result was faster, more accurate closes and audits, department-level visibility and self-service reporting, elimination of hardware/IT overhead, and software that paid for itself in under six months.

Big Ten Conference

Julie Suderman

Associate Commissioner, Finance