A Budgeting & Reporting System by opensky Data System provided the answers to Enterprise Irelands budgeting challenges. Navigate is a web enabled, collaborative Microsoft Office based solution that manages large organisational budgeting and planning processes. Integrating fully with all standard ERP and Financial Systems ie Oracle, Sun, Ifor, SAP. Navigate speeds up and simplifies the budgeting process and improves planning accuracy at all levels.

1. NAVIGATE
An Integrated Planning, Budgeting & Reporting System
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Client Solution Case Study
Intuitive opensky solution transforms the annual global
budgeting process at Enterprise Ireland into a faster, easier and
more collaborative business workflow with increased financial
accuracy, less cost and deeper insight.

2. Navigate An Integrated Budgeting and Reporting System Client Solution Case Study - Enterprise Ireland2
At a Glance
Client: Enterprise Ireland
Industry: Government
Country: Ireland
Solution Suite: Large / Medium Enterprise Solutions
Located in Dublin, Ireland, Enterprise Ireland is the Irish
government agency responsible for supporting Irish
businesses in the manufacturing and internationally
traded service sectors. Enterprise Ireland reports to the
Department of Jobs, Enterprise & Innovation and is
financed by Exchequer Grant and income generated from
its activities.
■■ Over €300m Annual
Funding 2012
■■ 720 staff
■■ over 200 project
budgets annually
■■ 120 global cost centres
■■ Over 100 budget data
submissions
■■ 10 Finance Account
Managers
■■ 9 regional offices
■■ 4 major cost categories
> opensky made it easy to do business with them by being
very precise in showing us how they were going to meet
our requirements.They implemented the agreed solution
quickly and with minimal interruption to our business
process.Their support and service level agreement in place
has been excellent and the opensky support team have been
very efficient in responding to questions or enhancement
requests. I highly recommend openskys Integrated
Budgeting & Reporting System <
Bernard Folan,
Section Manager, Responsible for Global Budget Co-ordination,
Enterprise Ireland.
T: 01 727 2000 www.enterprise-ireland.com
The Results
60% Reduction in Annual
Costs of Budgeting Software
*based on existing licence structure
60%
€ € €
positive
feedback
from users
Return on Investment
Achieved within 3 years
Significant
Reduction
in helpdesk
calls
Reduction from 100
individual monthly
reports to 1

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Drivers
of Change
■■ Enterprise Ireland’s previous
budgeting and reporting system,
Oracle Financial Analyser (OFA)
was de-supported in 2010.
■■ There was a high level of admin
input required to get access to
transaction level information
via another supported product
(Discoverer reports).
■■ Enterprise Ireland had a
requirement to provide business
managers with easier access to
information on budgeting and
forcecasting commitments.
■■ A more dynamic trading
environment that necessitated
two mid-year budget reviews and
reforecasting.
The Business Need
In 2011 Enterprise Ireland issued a request for tender from suitable qualified
companies for the supply and implementation of a budget management system as
the legacy system in use had reached its end of life cycle.The budget management
solution would be an integral component of Enterprise Irelands budgeting/
reporting framework and crucial in the delivery of key financial information.The key
functional requirements included the preparation of the annual budget, preparation
of monthly management accounts, departmental budget monitoring and variance
analysis. Other critical aspects of the solution would be that it was cost effective,
user-friendly, fast, and intuitive with access to real time critical data.
Why opensky?
> High cost savings [Reaslised]
> Tried & Trusted Reference Sites
> Clear Methodology of Delivery
> Broad range of Technology Skills
> Extensive support SLA
The Benefits to Enterprise Ireland
■■ Leaner administration of departmental budget reports, reducing the number
of Excel reports from 100 to 1, saving Enterprise Ireland days on data input,
aggregation and dissemination
■■ Faster calculations and more intuitive user experience that mirrored Enterprise
Irelands budgeting and reporting process flow at each level
■■ Seamlessly interfaces with existing Financial Accountancy System - which
assured operational business continuity for Finance teams but with a higher
level of budgeting and reporting system capabilities
■■ Business intelligence Dashboards of analytical measures/KPI’s gives the
management team in Enterprise Ireland enterprise wide visibility to realtime
budget performance updates, including variances, remaining balances,
consolidated performances and provides a powerful set of utilities to allow
for day to day budget management

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> By migrating 10 years
of financial data from
Oracle, the end users
were given an immediate
value add by having
the ability to perform
historical analysis on
data that was previously
difficult and cumbersome
to interact with. <
William Flanagan,
Chief Technology Officer,
opensky
A SUMMARY OF THE SOLUTION
Navigate:A Budgeting & Reporting System by opensky provided the answers to Enterprise Irelands budgeting challenges.
Navigate is a web enabled, collaborative Microsoft Office based solution that manages large organisational budgeting
and planning processes. Integrating fully with all standard ERP and Financial Systems ie Oracle, Sun, Ifor, SAP. Navigate
speeds up and simplifies the budgeting process and improves planning accuracy at all levels.
Data Integration
& Warehousing
William Flanagan, CTO at opensky
describes the implementation.“Our
Navigate solution was designed to
co-exist with any financial system,
including Oracle Financials.The Chart
of Accounts General Ledger structure,
invoice actuals and commitments are
integrated in to Navigate so as to be
completely transparent to both the end
users and the system administrators.
Budgeting Module
An easy to use Windows based interface
for data collection purposes reduces
training requirements. The ability to
import and export budget data to
and from Excel remains. Crucially, the
solution provides end users with an
array of in-built utilities to allow them
to profile budgets accurately, simply and
with minimum of line entry. Because of
the unified database, a fully consolidated
view of the budgets is always available to
Finance Managers, which when coupled
with the workflow. Historical budget
submissions are maintained and available
for analysis purposes, and a full audit of
all versions of the budget is maintained in
the database. Web enabled workflow and
online collaborative tools, gives higher
visibility to reasons supporting budget
submissions.
Report & Analysis
The solution creates a suite of standard
reports with featured enhanced “At a
Glance” weekly, monthly and annual
reports and performance dashboards.
Powerful self-service analytics provides
the end user with access to a simple
drag and drop report builder and can
be shared with selected colleagues.
Standard formatting features i.e
exceptional variances in red font etc.
are built into the application. Reports
are viewable online (i.e HTML) and can
be exported to Excel, PDF,Word etc.
Search and pivot report capability is
included. Budget Holders can choose to
automatically email or share the reports
with defined users throughout the
hierarchy, at a certain time.An additional
forecasting module to predict future
performance based on certain scenarios
and powerful algorithms is optional
and provides useful data for resource
planning and goal setting.
“The system opensky implemented
was an excellent fit with our specified
requirements.The solution leveraged
elements of our existing technology
infrastructure and interfaced seamlessly
with our accounting system. Significant
benefits have been achieved, notably in
the streamlined administration of the
departmental budget reports, user and
security management, and enhanced BI
capabilities e.g. excel cube reporting for
variance analysis, drilling to transactional
detail.As with the budget data collection
tool, feedback from end users of
the reporting services has been very
positive” reported Folan.
> Process is much simplified
- with direct access to
all budget information,
including drill to detail.
Fewer Help Desk calls,
lower costs and much
improved user experience
in terms of the interface,
usability etc. Budget
data is quickly and easily
exportable to Excel etc. <
Deirdre Mc Donough,
Department Manager,
Business Process
Improvement & IT,
Enterprise Ireland

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> The budget data collection
solution delivered is
user-friendly, fast
and meets with all our
functional requirements.
The tool is now used extensively
throughout the organisations
national and international
network of departments for
budget data preparation and
submission. Feedback from
all users of the budget data
collection tool has been
very positive. <
Bernard Folan,
Section Manager,
Responsible for Global Budget
Co-ordination,
Enterprise Ireland
Enterprise Ireland Offices at The Plaza,
Eastpoint Business Park, Dublin 3
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