Customer successes

Odyssey Thera Inc. is a drug discovery company with a strategy for identifying safe and effective medicines for a wide spectrum of human diseases. The company was growing rapidly, and needed an on-demand seamless financial system that would improve reporting and scale as the company continued to grow.  This new solution needed to:

• Simplify implementation and scalability
• Offer excellent built-in internal controls and compliance processes
• Provide anytime, anywhere web-based access

 Acceller offers an innovative comparison shopping platform for digital lifestyle services with a unique customer experience. When business began to increase, the company needed a more sophisticated financial reporting system that would improve financial reporting and offer secure remote access. The company wanted a low-maintenance system they could customize and integrate with Salesforce CRM. Acceller especially wanted to:

• Improve financial controls and gain richer reporting capabilities than what they were getting from QuickBooks.
• Support needs now and into the future with a scalable financial management system.
• Deploy an easy-to-use and reliable solution that didn’t require an expensive investment in IT. 

 Aicent, a provider of mobile data services for global wireless carriers, needed to find a flexible, uniform platform with multi-entity and multi-currency support to manage its increasingly complex finances globally. Aicent needed to:

• Provide multi-entity functionality with real-time consolidation of accounts.
• Automatically convert currency for accounts from overseas operations.
• Reduce IT support costs.
• Provide mobile executives with real-time business intelligence 

 Bulk TV and Internet, which specializes in offering DIRECTV and Dish Network packages to commercial properties, needed an innovative approach to improve operational efficiencies, gain better control over contract management and billing processes, and integrate with Salesforce CRM. Additionally, Bulk TV and Internet wanted to:

• Integrate CRM and financial applications to improve operations.
• Do away with legacy system QuickBooks, which often crashed and required regular IT intervention.
• Eliminate the need to export data to Microsoft Excel for reporting. 

 ASP Global Services is a leading provider of warehouse management solutions. Wanting to modernize its financial systems, the company decided that—as a Software-as-a-Service pioneer—a cloud-based system was the way to go. After evaluating several other solutions, ASP Global Services chose Intacct to:

• Boost financial processes and controls.
• Deploy a transparent general ledger.
• Increase visibility into key metrics through reports and dashboards.
• Integrate seamlessly with Salesforce CRM.

 MuleSoft, a web middleware company, provides enterprise-class software based on the world’s most popular open source application infrastructure products. The company needed its financial management system to support a growing international reach, and improve its financial controls and audit support. Specifically, MuleSoft needed to:

• Find a robust cloud financial management and accounting solution that supported multiple global business entities.
• Automate time-consuming manual processes and improve efficiencies.
• Support a wide range of financial management capabilities that could be deployed and managed quickly, without the need for IT staff assistance.

 nCircle, the leading provider of automated security and compliance auditing solutions, had grown exponentially—through both organic growth and acquisition, and it was time to move to a financial system that could handle advanced reporting needs and strengthen internal financial controls. The company needed a world-class, easy to use system that would save time and money, without having to add staff to support it. nCircle was looking for the capabilities to:

• Support global business management with multi-entity, multi-currency capabilities.
• Gain richer ad hoc reporting functionality to make better decisions and drive business performance across the organization.
• Maintain the system without heavy lifting from IT.

OpSource is a technology firm that helps Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) and web companies develop and deploy applications more effectively. The company needed a system that would help them improve financial controls, simplify close and consolidation processes, and automate those processes they were forced to do manually. In evaluating Intacct, OpSource wanted to:

• Support multi-entity and multi-currency management.
• Improve revenue recognition processes and reporting to gain global visibility.
• Find a solution that could integrate CRM and financial applications to streamline operations and reduce days sales outstanding (DSO).

SchoolDude.com, a provider of online tools for school operations management, needed a central repository for front office and back office data. Because the company was using multiple systems, staff members were spending too much time on administration rather than on business development. The company turned to Intacct to:

• Integrate business processes and increase productivity using a single, easy-to-manage solution.
• Gain better insight into key financial metrics and share customer intelligence.
• Lower costs and increase customer satisfaction through improved customer support.

 Virtual Hold Technology develops virtual queuing solutions for Fortune 100 clients. The company needed a financial management application that could:

• Give employees visibility into account and order information for better customer service.
• Provide access to financial information to remote and traveling employees.
• Easily integrate with Salesforce CRM for real-time visibility into invoice and payment status.

Voltage Security, Inc., an enterprise security company, is an encryption innovator and global leader in enterprise data protection for data residing both inside and outside the cloud. They needed a robust, scalable financial management system that would keep up with the company’s growth plans, and make it easier for employees to focus on customers. Voltage Security needed the ability to:

• Eliminate additional IT infrastructure and support.
• Provide employees with anytime, anywhere access to advanced reporting capabilities.
• Support overseas subsidiaries with flexible multi-currency functionality.

Regent Entertainment, with a motion picture studio, theatrical release division, and the chain of Regent movie theatres, needed a business solution to streamline business processes and provide real time business intelligence, without adding costly hardware or software. Regent was looking for a solution that would:

• Streamline the management of multiple entities.
• Enable a single, unified, real-time view of all its affiliates.
• Provide immediate, transparent business performance metrics, and real-time collaboration capabilities.
• Offer fast implementation and easy integration without additional staff.

 Fast Eddie's, a nationwide chain of sports and billiards restaurants, wanted a financial management system that would provide visibility and GAAP-required corporate controls. To continue growing the business successfully, Fast Eddie’s needed to: 

• Gain comprehensive multi-entity functionality that offers a unified view of all affiliates.
• Find a multi-unit accounting system with seamless single- and multi-entity entry and reporting features.
• Properly allocate capital and human resources to the core business, without having to add hardware, software, or staff to manage financials.

 Consulting Radiologists, Ltd., (CRL) is a full-service network of radiology professionals and imaging centers focused on improving care through timely patient diagnoses, appropriate interventions and innovative treatments. In its quest for a better financial management solution, CRL wanted a trusted business advisor to help the company:

• Find and deploy a flexible and full-featured financial management and accounting system to streamline financial processes.
• Manage multiple business entities more effectively.
• Maintain HIPAA compliance and deploy high levels of security and privacy.

 Fitness Formula Clubs (FFC) is a Chicago-based chain of fitness clubs with multiple locations in both public and corporate locations. With 15 separate business entities, the company needed a flexible financial management system to support its quickly-growing business and:

• Streamline and improve reporting overall, and eliminate the need to export data to Excel.
• Maximize ROI and minimize demands on a small IT team.

 Platinum Hospitality Management, a hotel developer and operator in Texas and Tennessee, needed a financial management solution that could support the company’s growing property portfolio. With complex operations comprised of multiple corporations, bank accounts and subsidiaries, Platinum needed a solution that would: 

• Provide multi-entity functionality to centrally run the hotel chain's back-end tasks.
• Offer advanced business analytics to gauge real-time business performance.
• Lower IT costs and provide anywhere, anytime access.

Faith Promise Church is a contemporary church operating as an autonomous, self-governing group under no specific denominational control or influence. With over 3,500 members, Faith Promise needed a robust financial system tailored for large nonprofit organizations that would:

• Provide robust functionality and improve financial visibility, while keeping overhead costs low.
• Streamline business processes and improve productivity for its 45 full- and part-time employees.
• Automate numerous time-consuming manual processes and eliminate duplicate data entry.

 The Great Books Foundation is a nonprofit educational organization that serves K-12 schools in the United States, and in English language schools and post-secondary schools throughout the world, supporting learning programs and book clubs, and promoting lifelong appreciation of literature. To further its mission, The Great Books Foundation needed a cloud financial management system that would enable the organization to:

• Support ongoing growth using a flexible and full-featured financial management, accounting, and inventory management system.
• Integrate financial management with existing Sugar CRM, osCommerce e-commerce, and other enterprise systems.
• Increase ROI and minimize demands on its small IT team.

 TeleManagement Forum (TM Forum) is a global industry association focused on simplifying the complexity of running a service provider’s business. With subsidiaries and satellite offices in seven countries, TMForum needed a scalable web-based solution with advanced reporting and business process automation capabilities to keep up with rapid expansion. TM Forum needed to:

• Employ multi-entity functionality with multi-currency consolidation.
• Improve visibility using real-time business intelligence and advanced financial reporting.
• Automate business processes with a highly scalable infrastructure.

 Matrix Absence Management provides customized HR management for disability, workers’ compensation, and family leave programs. The rapidly growing company needed a cloud-based, user-friendly solution that was robust enough to meet its current financial requirements, yet scalable enough to grow with the organization in the future. Specifically, Matrix needed to:

• Automate financial management and eliminate paper-based processes, while supporting a complex general ledger structure.
• Improve revenue management capabilities.
• Reduce demands on a small IT team.

 3balls.com is one of the nation’s largest retailers of used and like-new golf equipment. With 3,000 new channel partners, 3balls.com needed to upgrade its financial system to increase staff productivity, gain better insight into costs and revenues, and support rapid growth. 3balls’ wish list included:

• Provide anywhere, anytime access.
• Help the management team make better decisions faster using real-time business intelligence.
• Deploy an open platform to integrate front and back end applications.

 Navis Logistics Network, a national packaging and shipping franchisor, operated warehouses and retail outlets on disparate accounting and ERP systems, which slowed responsiveness to market changes, impeded cost-saving efforts, and drained resources from core business operations. The company wanted to standardize financial operations across its network to respond more quickly to market changes and save costs. Navis also needed to:

• Gain better visibility into the financials and operations of all franchises.
• Gather data on aggregate shipments across its network to gain volume discounts from freight carriers.
• Get a consolidated, real-time view of its franchise network.

 Cenzic, a provider of vulnerability management solutions that automate penetration testing of web applications, needed to:

• Improve remote access to the corporate financial system.
• Add scalability to accommodate the company’s growth.
• Reduce time spent on system maintenance.

 Electronic publishing software maker Atypon Systems deployed Intacct applications to reduce IT costs, accelerate market growth worldwide, and tightly control corporate governance across offices in California, New York and the United Kingdom. Intacct provides Atypon with the tools to:-          Consolidate and process financials from various offices.-          Track order entry in real time.-          Diligently enforce corporate accounting policies worldwide.

 EZShield pioneered identity theft protection nearly a decade ago. As EZShield grew, it realized its on-premises accounting software was no longer the right fit and set out to find a more flexible, cloud-based solution. EZShield selected the Intacct cloud financial management system to:-          Support its growing multi-entity business.-          Automate revenue management.-          Better handle tracking, approval, and reimbursement of employee expenses.

 Rapid growth, a desire for streamlined financial processes and a need to automate manual processes were the drivers that made OnShift upgrade from QuickBooks to Intacct. The move enables OnShift, which increased customer acquisition by more than 500 percent in 2010, to:

• Automate critical billing, revenue management and financial reporting functions—saving the company significant time and money.
• Streamline its quote to cash processes using built-in integration with Salesforce CRM.

 Pentaho, a leader in open source business intelligence and data integration, experienced rapid growth and outstretched the capabilities of its previous QuickBooks accounting software. The company evaluated cloud financial systems from Intacct and NetSuite, and Intacct was selected for its ease of implementation, advanced revenue management capabilities and project accounting application. Intacct capabilities enable Pentaho to:

• Reduce the cost and complexity of running its business in multiple countries.
• Ensure accurate, up to the minute financial management, visibility and control.
• Streamline and automate the capture of all its billable and non-billable time and expenses for professional services projects using Intacct Project Accounting—reducing revenue leakage and maximizing billable hours.

 RedVision Systems, a national provider of real property research solutions, had been struggling with a financial management solution that consisted of Excel spreadsheets and four instances of QuickBooks. When looking for a new solution, the company evaluated Intacct, NetSuite, and SAP Business ByDesign. RedVision selected Intacct to:

• Take advantage of the flexible and extensible General Ledger.
• Improve ease of use.
• Gain deep visibility with rich reporting and analytics.
• Easily integrate with salesforce.com CRM applications. 

 WellAWARE Systems is a web-based wellness monitoring solutions provider that upgraded its financial management system to Intacct to:

• Improve its financial control processes.
• Gain real-time access to business metrics.
• Automate revenue management.
• Take advantage of native integration with Salesforce CRM to streamline its lead-to-cash process by eliminating duplicate data entry and removing any gaps between the sales and finance teams.

 Signal 88 Security combines experienced staff with state-of-the-art technology to provide customized security services to the business community. Signal 88 had been using QuickBooks within its corporate finance department, but recognized early on that QuickBooks was never designed to be used as a single system across nearly 100 franchises and at corporate headquarters. Signal 88 now uses Intacct at its corporate headquarters and across all its franchises and is now able to:

• Gain better visibility into finances at both the corporate and individual franchise levels.
• Streamline the invoicing process to improve company profitability.

Eye Care for Animals (ECFA), a group of veterinary ophthalmology service practices throughout the United States, graduated from QuickBooks to Intacct to improve cash management, streamline financial consolidation and provide management with greater insight into key financial metrics to facilitate improved decision making. ECFA had been struggling with 30 different QuickBooks instances and lots of data stored in Excel spreadsheets. Intacct now makes it possible for ECFA to:

• Gain a single source of truth, by providing real-time access to all financial data in one place.
• Enable each practice to maintain its own financials, which are automatically rolled up into a consolidated view with the click of a button.

 Tango2 is a growing healthcare IT consulting firm that has doubled in size each of the past four years. They quickly outstretched the abilities of their previous Microsoft Accounting Pro system and switched to Intacct to:

• Gain a more robust financial management and accounting platform to accommodate its growth.
• Provide easier access to granular financial and operational data.
• Enable the firm's remote consultants to enter and access information from anywhere. 

 Gemstone, a company that specializes in managing upscale boutique hotels and unique resorts across the U.S., is growing fast and expects to double its number of properties within the next two years. This growth and the added complexity these new properties will bring to Gemstone's financial management and accounting processes and IT infrastructure led the company to reevaluate its previous Microsoft Dynamics AX ERP system. Gemstone chose Intacct to:

• Improve financial visibility.
• Decrease IT costs.
• Streamline accounting management of its multiple properties.

 Located in northwest Las Vegas, Nevada, Canyon Ridge is a congregation of more than 6,000 people. The church is growing rapidly, but dependence on QuickBooks was an obstacle to its expansion. This large and fast-growing faith-based organization is anticipating that the switch to Intacct will:

• Significantly reduce manual data entry.
• Enhance visibility into financial performance.
• Minimize the church's reliance on IT staff.
• Free up the finance team to focus on projects that better support the church's spiritual charter.

With plans to grow locally as well as globally, Church of the King wanted a financial system that would enable easy access to financial data from anywhere in the world, thus helping to ensure informed decisions and fiscal execution at all levels and in all geographic regions. Church of the King felt Intacct would:

• Offer an intuitive, user-friendly interface.
• Deliver extensive functionality that would increase productivity.
• Easily integrate with the church's existing IT infrastructure, including Fellowship One church management software.

 Grace Fellowship Church is a multi-campus church serving areas in Maryland and Pennsylvania. Grace outgrew its ACS Financial Suite and wanted to move to a cloud financial management system. Grace chose Intacct to:

• Fulfill its need for a cost-effective financial management system.
• Streamline fund accounting and activity-based budgeting.
• Offer church management and other stakeholders real-time visibility into its financial performance.

The no. 47 company on the Deloitte Technology Fast 500 list integrates Salesforce CRM with Intacct financial management and accounting software to manage its healthcare technology and consulting business, which is expanding nationwide through acquisitions and organic growth. Fusing sales, supply chain, and accounting reduces IT costs, increases revenue, and establishes stronger internal controls for financial reporting. 

Results Engineering, an IT consulting firm with offices scattered across the United States and consultants in the field working with Fortune 100 companies, values the ability Intacct provides to:

• Centralize real-time financial information.
• Gain better visibility into the performance of specific operations.
• Identify underperforming areas earlier, and make decisions accordingly.

Rise Interactive, a data driven online marketing services firm focused on search engine optimization, paid search, display/banner advertising and web analytics for a stable of national brands like Dale Carnegie Training, Abt Electronics, Claire's and ULTA, had outgrown an industry-focused solution. The company reviewed the top financial systems on the market before selecting award-winning Intacct cloud financial management and accounting software. Intacct has helped Rise Interactive to:

• Improve financial visibility.
• Streamline financial processes.

 SEMI, the global industry association serving the manufacturing supply chains for the microelectronic, display and photovoltaic industries, has selected Intacct as its new financial management system. By switching from Lawson to Intacct, SEMI will:

• Streamline its financial processes.
• Improve financial and operational reporting.
• Significantly reduce total cost of ownership (TCO).