Implementing PBCS at ODTUG
As a Director on the ODTUG Board, I have the privilege of serving as the organization's Treasurer. Some of my duties include overseeing the organization's financial reporting as well as budgeting and forecasts. When I took over the role two years ago I did an assessment of our reporting capabilities and I was unhappy about our dependency on Excel as our primary reporting and analysis tool. Our controller did a fantastic job of pulling the data each month for our close and finance review, but we were limited to the reports that were created and any follow up questions or curiosities that required digging deeper posed a challenge and required someone to go off and manually work on it. As an EPM professional, I knew there were better tools out there and my colleagues on the board agreed. Of course this wasn't news, previous boards had also thought about this, but they were impaired by infrastructure requirements. As a not-for-profit organization ODTUG runs o...