Case Study: City of Missoula achieves faster, more trusted management reporting with Workiva

Connected Data Fuels Fast Management Reporting for Missoula

The City of Missoula's finance team, led by Budget Manager Scott Paasch, was spending huge amounts of time extracting 50,000–60,000 lines from their ERP into spreadsheets and manually reconciling with departments. The process was slow, error-prone, caused version‑control headaches, and needed to be flexible enough to handle a potential future ERP change.

Missoula implemented Workiva’s Wdata to connect multiple data sources directly to Wdesk and automatically pull fresh data nightly. Within a month they produced multiple management reports, eliminated the daily 40‑minute manual pull, accelerated the budget cycle (first ERP import three months earlier), increased confidence and auditability, and greatly reduced copy‑and‑paste errors.

City of Missoula

Scott Paasch

Budget Manager