Case Study: City of Wiesbaden achieves transparent, efficient budget management with SAS Business Analytics

Manage municipal budgets with greater transparency, efficiency

The City of Wiesbaden, a German municipal government responsible for seven departments and 30 offices, needed a more transparent, efficient way to manage its expanded double-entry budget and make sound fiscal decisions. With responsibilities that include social services and fluctuating revenue streams like business taxes, the city sought an IT solution that could integrate existing systems, preserve familiar Excel workflows, and deliver accurate, forward-looking financial forecasts.

Wiesbaden implemented SAS Business Analytics to pull and analyze SAP data, mirror master records, and provide monthly variance analyses with a traffic‑light alert system that highlights variances, underlying causes and linked corrective measures. The platform produces reliable monthly forecasts, improves budget adherence and early problem detection (for example, predicting business tax trends), and gives managers actionable, Excel‑compatible reports so they can make faster, better-informed spending and staffing decisions.

City of Wiesbaden

Helmut Müller

Mayor and Treasurer