Moet Hennessy
Moet Hennessy USA (MHUSA) is the leading luxury importer of premium wines and spirits, with key brands including Dom Perignon, Belvedere Vodka and Veuve Clicquot.   MHUSA is owned by Louis Vuitton Moet Hennessy, (LVMH), the world’s largest luxury goods company. 
ISA Consulting and MHUSA partnered to deploy a comprehensive framework to support reporting, ad-hoc analysis and graphical scorecards.  The organizations also decided to maintain and support the system off-site in ISA’s development center.   This remote support model allows MHUSA to focus its lean IT staff on new development while relying on ISA to weather the peaks and valleys of ongoing support. Download to read…

Yeshiva University
Yeshiva University, established in 1886, is the nation’s oldest university focusing on Jewish scholarship and studies in liberal arts, medicine, law and business.   The university’s mission is “To Bring Wisdom to Life” by offering a contemporary academic education informed by Judaic spiritual values through its six New York City locations and 20 schools and colleges. The Finance and Information Technology teams of Yeshiva serve the institution across its full spectrum of needs including teaching, research, and administrative functions.  Download to read…

Highmark
ISA’s challenge was to help Highmark gather the internal budgeting and financial reporting requirements, identify the budget software applications available in the market, and provide guidance during the solicitation for a budgeting software application that would enable Corporate Finance to make the proper decision. Download to read…

Cubist
Cubist needed to roll-out Cognos 8 reports and train its salesforce.  ISA bridged the gap between Information Systems and Sales - training them to interpret the data effectively. Download to read…

Assured Guaranty
AGC decided to implement an enterprise-wide reporting solution that could integrate data from the disparate systems, provide easy access to standard reports, and allow users a simple method of building ad-hoc queries. Download to read…

US Tennis Association
USTA decided to gain efficiency and improve financial visibility by streamlining and automating the annual budgeting process – moving it from a manual and Excel-based process into a flexible, organization-wide budgeting, planning and reporting system. USTA selected Hyperion Planning and chose ISA Consulting to assist them in their implementation. Download to read…

Quest
Quest Diagnostics’ migration was challenging because they had a large number of reports to be migrated in an aggressive time frame. In addition, Quest Diagnostics did not want to disrupt the existing production applications or the on-going development that was taking place as the migration project kicked-off. Finally, Quest Diagnostics resources were relatively unfamiliar with Cognos 8 capabilities and needed to be trained quickly in order to participate in the migration and support the rollout. Download to read…

Affinia Hotels and The Benjamin
Affinia Hotels and The Benjamin leveraged ISA Consulting’s knowledge of Cognos and business intelligence to design an executive dashboard. The new Daily Flash dashboard incorporated multiple KPI’s and gave associates a visual sense of key trends and relationships driving the business. Download to read…

University of Pennsylvania Health System
UPHS implemented Hyperion Planning with the assistance of ISA Consulting. ISA recommended a staged project management methodology where functionality was rolled out in phases, delivering innovation without unnecessary disruption to departmental staff. The implementation team – a tight group of ISA and UPHS personnel – designed the budgeting application together. ISA provided Hyperion expertise, project management oversight and design recommendations. The UPHS team contributed subject-matter expertise, hands-on development and testing resources throughout the project. Download to read…

Princeton University
ISA Consulting worked with Princeton’s experts to develop a comprehensive training program. The team used ISA’s industry-leading Cognos training materials and customized them to include Princeton’s metadata and business processes. They delivered classes ongoing to hundreds of end-users. According to Ted Bross, “The materials that ISA developed with us have gone a long way to making our implementation a success. In addition to our own Princeton community, these materials have been ackowledged by many of our peer institutions as models for their own data warehousing efforts.” Download to read…

Axis Capital
Axis Capital was growing rapidly and they needed a more robust, better planning and performance management system.  Axis wanted tools that would accomodate organizational change over a number of years.  Axis selected Oracle's Hyperion Planning. Download to read…

Olympus
Hyperion Planning adopted as forecasting application by Sales, Sales Operations, and Finance departments Upgrade from Hyperion Pillar accomplished with assistance from ISA Consulting. Download to read…

Quality Health
Quality Health engaged ISA Consulting to install and configure Cognos 8. Then, to replicate their Crystal Reports, they looked to ISA Consulting’s off-site Development Center. The ISA Development Center is an ideal solution for projects that require a quick startup. The ISA facilities are ready to go, and the team is flexible, able to bring in people with the appropriate skills as needed. This project team consisted of an ISA project manager, a Cognos 8 data modeler, an Oracle administrator and a Report Studio developer. Download to read…

Pep Boys
Pep Boys needed a new enterprise-wide business intelligence solution that would provide timely access to accurate information and enable them to respond quickly and proactively to market conditions. Their goal was to implement an easy-to-use system that would provide consistent information across the enterprise, from high-level reports to drill downs for specific details. Download to read…

Highmark
Faced with increasing planning and budgeting needs due to an increasing number of divisions and cost centers, Highmark’s Cost Management group upgraded from Hyperion Pillar® to Hyperion Planning™ to perform its budgeting and reporting processes. With this upgrade, Highmark has created a system that enables 600 non-technical users to easily access budget data via the Web. Download to read…

National Geographic
National Geographic was using a combination of PeopleSoft Budget Explorer for departmental expenses, Excel for product profitability planning and Access to enter staffing plans. PeopleSoft General Ledger was used to store allocation rules, and to drive departmental overheads to the product level. Extensive work was required to distribute spreadsheets to planners, collect and consolidate budgets, and enter the data back into the General Ledger for financial reporting and product profitability analysis. The entire budget cycle had to be completed by Thanksgiving to allow enough time for Board approval in December and financial reporting by January. Download to read…

Genesis
Genesis partnered with ISA Consulting to migrate their existing Impromptu and PowerPlay client tools to the Web. The new system consists of Impromptu Web Reports, PowerPlay and UpFront. The system provides timely, flexible, browser-based reporting and will serve over 500 users when all are transitioned to the web-based system. Download to read…

ISA Helps Leading Pharmaceutical Manufacturer
A leading manufacturer of generic pharmaceuticals in the US sought to keep their competitive advantage in the industry. The company, which has one of the broadest product lines in the generic industry — nearly 150 products and well over 450 SKUs — markets its products to chains, wholesalers, distributors, hospitals, managed care entities and governmental agencies, processing up to 60,000 ultimate pharmacies and hundreds of thousands of transactions. Download to read…

Columbia House
Columbia House faced a challenge. They realized they were making important budgeting and forecasting decisions based on information that was often out of date and inconsistent. They needed the ability to quickly and easily analyze their business across various dimensions and realized they didn’t have a clear picture of their business. It was time to invest in a new enterprise budgeting and forecasting reporting system. Download to read…