Case Study: City of Pittsburgh achieves streamlined, accurate budgeting with Workiva

City of Pittsburgh Revolutionizes Budgeting with Workiva

The City of Pittsburgh’s Office of Management and Budget, a five-person team responsible for the city’s 400‑page operating budget, faced a time‑consuming, error‑prone process built on spreadsheets, manual PDFs, and a single-editor workflow that often forced staff to work nights and weekends to make last‑minute changes.

The team adopted Workiva’s Wdesk to link data directly from their budget software, enable simultaneous editing with automatic version control, and cascade changes across all linked documents. The result: faster, more accurate budgets with easy root‑cause error tracing, fewer late nights, improved collaboration, and plans to extend the platform to CAFR and other reports.

City of Pittsburgh

Patrick Cornell

Senior Budget Analyst in the Office of Management and Budget