NNIT

Kunde Case
Seeing is Believing
NNIT modernized financial planning on time and in budget with Jedox.
Kunde
NNIT
Område
Worldwide
Industri
IT Services
Afdeling
Finance
Løsning
Finansiel Planlægning og Budgettering
Systemmiljø
Microsoft SQL server
Fordele
Simplified, Stabilized planning environment

Project Delivery on time and in budget

High user satisfication

Potential usage scenarios across the enterprise
Hvorfor Jedox?
Stand-alone planning software

Compatible with Microsoft Technologies

Good response times worldwide

Flexible scalable solution
Executive Summary
NNIT is a leading Danish IT service company with a strong global reach. Following a change in its steering model at the beginning of 2017, the company needed a new solution for financial planning and budgeting. It chose Jedox after an extensive market screening and in-house testing with the free trial version. Thanks to the flexible, intuitive software and its efficient project management, NNIT rolled out a comprehensive planning solution to 200 users on time and in budget.

Fast-growing, international IT consultancy

Effective planning and performance controls are essential for a dynamic company like NNIT that started out in Denmark. Today, it has more than 2,800 employees and a strong global reach – selling and sourcing from various locations in Asia, the United States, and Central Europe.
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New steering model

As the business grows, the complexity of its original planning system has mushroomed as well. At its height, the Excel-based tool supported over 200 users and sourced data from 28 stored procedures in underlying databases. A change in the steering model for IT operations at the start of 2017 sealed the system’s fate. The complex allocations needed to control performance from both customer and service dimensions were just not possible in Excel.

More than a gut feeling

NNIT screened the market for suitable products based on a request for information and research from Gartner®. The main goals were to support the new steering model, simplify the database structure, and stabilize the planning environment. The company quickly focused its search on standalone products that were tailormade for planning and compatible with Microsoft. Jedox was among those on the short list.

Ingen interne IT-ressourcer

“Many competitors in this market are similar in terms of pricing, architecture, and front end, but most do not have – or even allow – trial versions,” confided Lisbeth Westergaard Nielsen, Program Leader and Finance Team Leader at NNIT. “We downloaded Jedox ourselves, ran some integration tasks, uploaded our data, crunched the numbers, and liked what we saw.”
Response time was another important criterion for the system, which was to be hosted in Europe but used heavily in Asia. Jedox passed various latency tests with flying colors. “The fact that we could play around with Jedox was decisive in my opinion,” she added. “None of the other providers offered that.”
“Our developers built our own proof of concept in Jedox Cloud without any training or prior knowledge. The tool is so logical that you can understand it and work with it intuitively”
Lisbeth Westergaard Nielsen
Finance Team Leader - NNIT

Efficient, lean project team

Throughout the project, Westergaard Nielsen worked together with an internal IT business consultant, who was responsible for tasks such as integration, security, and ETL. This small, dedicated team ensured effciency and minimized waste during the tight build phase. It also collaborated with external implementation partners, who were allocated full time to the project.
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200 users in initial rollout

Today, NNIT uses Jedox for financial management, which encompasses planning, budgeting, P&L planning for customers and services, and capacity management. The system gives over 200 users in Denmark, China, the Philippines, and the Czech Republic a single point of entry for their financial planning. They can view their input in near real time and the aggregated results as the process evolves.

High user satisfaction

User feedback has been very positive and a rollout to the United States and Switzerland is already in planning. Performance issues, which were commonplace in the former planning tool, are now a thing of the past. Jedox has eliminated many different tabs and steps so users simply input their data in one place. Many of these inputs are now even driver-based so they can create capacity forecasts or build a cost budget just by adding their FTE’s.
Time is money

Project delivery on time and in budget

The management team at NNIT is also satisfi ed with the new planning solution, which the team delivered on time and on budget. The company sees great opportunities for using Jedox outside of finance as well. “Jedox is an extremely flexible and logical tool,” commented Westergaard Nielsen. “You can work in a sandbox environment and see fast results – not just for large-scale enterprise solutions like planning but also for smaller ones to support day-to-day business.”

Taking planning to new levels

Over two thirds of the business at NNIT comes from IT operations – a service industry with a completely other setup and complexity. Westergaard Nielsen sees huge potential in linking activity-based costing to operational planning in Jedox to gain a more seamless understanding of cost drivers and their overall financial impact.
“Going forward, I also hope to be able to engage and empower people to take a more active interest in their financial performance, but that has to go hand in hand with governance and processes,” she concluded. “It is much easier to roll out a new system than to work with behavior and governance, where we are still in the early stages. I think that is where Jedox will really stand up to the test and create the benefits and value that we are hoping for.”
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