Case study

Finance reporting that keeps up with the day

Omnichannel e-commerce

Foundation then Activation
Situation
An omnichannel retailer whose finance leadership was steering on yesterday’s numbers in a business that changes within the day.
What we built
  • Foundation. A review that found the figures correct but arriving a day late, after the decisions they were meant to inform.
  • Activation. Near-real-time financial reporting on the governed model, so the figures update during the trading day rather than after it has closed.
What was broken
The reporting was correct and late. By the time the daily figures landed, the decisions they informed had either been made on instinct or postponed, which is the version of this problem that never shows up as a data-quality complaint.
Where it left them
Finance leadership sees performance as it happens, not a day later.
Stack
  • Direct Lake
  • Eventstream
  • Finance BI
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The other engagements

  • Multi-brand retail

    Foundation then Activation then Acceleration then Stewardship

    From one governed model to AI in production

    A retail group running several brands, each with its own systems, its own reporting habits and its own answer to what a margin is.

    • Metric definitions
    • AI enablement
    • Stewardship
  • Hospitality & real estate

    Foundation then Activation

    A CFO cockpit over a group that closed its books separately

    A holding group across hospitality and real estate, with entities that each closed their own books and a CFO who had to answer for all of them.

    • Microsoft Fabric
    • Databricks
    • Semantic model
  • Industrial manufacturing

    Foundation then Activation then Acceleration

    Governed reporting across a production network

    An industrial manufacturer reporting across a production network of sites, each with its own view of what was running.

    • Row-level security
    • Power BI
    • Governance

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