Case Study: USC Dornsife College achieves 81% faster budget preparation with Strata Decision Technology

USC Dornsife College Prepares Budgets 81% Faster

USC Dornsife College, the largest college at the University of Southern California with over 9,000 students and nearly 1,800 faculty and staff, faced a slow, error-prone annual budgeting process that once took as long as four months and relied on collecting and cleaning dozens of spreadsheets. To address this, the college adopted Axiom™ Budgeting & Forecasting and Axiom™ Reporting & Analytics from Strata Decision Technology to centralize data, automate integrations, and standardize budgeting and reporting workflows.

Strata Decision Technology’s solution created a single source of truth and enabled self-service reporting for deputy directors, automated account changes, and rapid scenario modeling for mandated budget cuts. As a result, USC Dornsife reduced budget preparation time by 81% (from four months to about three weeks), produced four times as many reports with the same six-person staff, cut errors significantly, and delivered more value-added services without increasing FTEs.

USC Dornsife College

Javier Mosquera

Senior Financial Analyst