Case Study: ASM International achieves streamlined, secure, and timely cross-border financial reporting with Workiva (Wdesk)

ASM Masters Complex Financial Reporting with Wdesk

ASM International, a Netherlands-based maker of wafer-processing equipment, faced high-pressure financial reporting: with shares listed on NASDAQ and Euronext, Hans Zweers and a two-person team had to produce two different sets of reports multiple times a year. Their legacy Word/Excel workflow was slow, hard to safeguard, and struggled with XBRL tagging, creating anxiety and risk around meeting deadlines.

ASM adopted Workiva’s Wdesk to centralize financials in a single linked workbook, streamline report authoring, and use Workiva’s professional services for XBRL tagging. The solution improved data accuracy and document security, cut external tagging costs by about 50%, reduced filing stress, and gave the company the flexibility to file reports on its own schedule.

ASM International

Hans Zweers

Director of External Reporting and Treasury