We have worked with clients to deploy solutions within HR, Finance, Marketing, Asset Management, Performance Management, Call Centres and many other business areas. Clients include Shell, ntl:, Scottish Power, BP, Glasgow City Council, Sage, Scottish Water and many of the major Financial Services organisations.
Dynamic, Real-Time Spreadsheets Eliminate Budgeting Burden for 400 Costa Stores
“The project has been a complete success and our budgeting process has been totally transformed. Our users are extremely happy as they can now devote significantly more time to value-added activities and have instant access to real-time data to support their decision-making”
Business Intelligence Analyst, Costa Coffee
Costa Coffee Case Study (Adobe Acrobat 135 KB)
Leading law firm, Herbert Smith, deploys budgeting solution globally to replace multiple, diverse spreadsheets.
“Our project to introduce a unified budgeting solution across our offices has been successful. We have replaced an extremely labour-intensive process with a secure, comprehensive budgeting and planning solution that has been warmly received by our users. Eclectic’s contribution was key – their accounting background coupled with their technical knowledge was a real asset to the project, and they delivered the solution on time and on budget.”
Nigel Lang, Business Applications Manager, Herbert Smith
Lambeth Council cuts effort to prepare monthly accounts by nearly 50%.
“The deployment of an Oracle budgeting and planning solution has transformed our month-end reporting. The original deadlines for preparation of forecast and accrual information were 15 days. That has now moved to 8 days. With other process improvements, we intend to reduce this to 2 or 3 days. With the support of our consultancy partner, Eclectic, we now have plans to increase efficiency still further by providing users with personalised, desktop access to financial reports via a web portal and also to take advantage of the benefits of single sign-on.”
University College London (UCL) streamlines complex salary forecasting for 8,000 employees.
“Without question, our salary forecasting system now meets all our needs. We have control over salary commitments and can forecast ahead with confidence. Managing a university salary forecasting system is not a straightforward task as we have to accommodate a large number of funding sources, complex benefit arrangements and forecast to a high level of accuracy. Eclectic were excellent throughout the project - they understood our needs, kept us well-informed and responded to our queries immediately.”
Ian Davis, Management Accountant, UCL
Eclectic shape a pan-European reporting solution to maximise Health, Safety and Environment effectiveness.
“A reduction in the reporting cycle from 10 to 3 days has freed up man-hours and also led to greater accuracy and use of HSE information across EP Europe."
HSE Data & Knowledge Manager, Shell Expro Aberdeen
Shell HSE Case Study (Adobe Acrobat 2.17mb)
Eclectic help Scottish Power achieve operational efficiencies through improved asset management information.
"They not only answered our business needs, but also simplified our systems, so that we can progress the development of other key business areas."
Project Manager, Scottish Power
Scottish Power Case Study (Adobe Acrobat 2.71mb)
Eclectic's "Quick Wins" tactics deliver immediate business gains.
"Through this project we are now delivering focussed information to external staff. This has improved management and enhanced our customer service."
Head of MI and Systems, Prudential
Prudential Case Study (Adobe Acrobat 308kb)
Eclectic enable greater financial visibility and control.
"The solution has freed up approximately 10 man-years of analyst resources by cutting report generation time. It also offers more details and has improved transparency and consistency."
Senior Financial Controller, Shell Expro
Shell Expro Case Study (Adobe Acrobat 445kb)
Eclectic develop Business Intelligence solutions for Community and Support Services
“The project has resulted in planning cycle efficiencies – not only more accurate measures to allow budgetary planning but reduced man hours in collating information. Our planning report process has been reduced from 3 months to 3 days.“
Social Work Department, West Lothian Council
West Lothian Council Case Study (Adobe Acrobat 402kb)
Milking the benefits of Business Intelligence: Eclectic instigate a relaunch of Business Objects.
"Speeding up information from source to target and increasing the quantity and quality of information available has not only reduced operational costs but has equipped us for the increasing information demand from our suppliers."
Group Head of IT, First Milk
First Milk Case Study (Adobe Acrobat 314kb)
Costa Coffee Case Study
