Case Study: King County Housing Authority cuts reporting time by 80% with Spreadsheet Server

Housing Authority Automates Its Reporting with Spreadsheet Server to Gain Back Time

King County Housing Authority (KCHA) needed a better way to handle financial reporting after its existing Unit4 Business ERP tool, Excelerator, proved unintuitive and lacked drill-down capability. The team was forced to recreate database commands manually and rely on large data downloads and cut-and-paste work in Excel, making reporting slow and labor-intensive.

KCHA implemented Spreadsheet Server to gain customizable, drill-down reporting built directly into Excel. With Spreadsheet Server, the organization automated much of its budgeting and reporting workflow, built queries into the process, and saved 80% of the time previously spent creating reports. Craig Violante, CFO, called it one of the best IT investments of his career.

King County Housing Authority

Craig Violante

Chief Financial Officer