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Case Study: Worldwide Leader in Lodging Industry

AT-A-GLANCE

Location

U.S., Brazil and Japan

Industry

Services & Hospitality

Solution Area

Cloud,
EPM

Company Size

$59.2 Million

Planning and Budgeting Cloud Services (PBCS) Solution

The Client:
The client is an award-winning leader in the lodging industry with franchises, corporate managed and corporate owned properties, serving millions of guests each year. Known for listening to consumers, they offer travelers a consistently high-quality experience at an affordable price. With coast-to-coast locations, the client has over 550 properties in the U.S. and has expanded internationally to Brazil and Japan.

The Challenge:
The client wanted a centralized planning model. This would be a change from the current planning model, which was done using a spreadsheet.

The Solution:
The client and Inspirage decided that the solution would be the implementation of Planning and Budgeting Cloud Services (PBCS).

As a result of the implementation, the client would reduce budgeting time by 50%, the data integrity of actual data would align with budgets in PBCS, and reporting capabilities for standardizing and distribution of reports to multiple recipients would be improved.

The Success Factors:
• Reduce the amount of manual data manipulation and spreadsheet data storage
• Decrease Planning process time for gathering, inputting, and calculating data
• Reduce the amount of time and tasks it takes to perform monthly reporting processes
• Reduce the run time to update Budget drivers and provide results back to CFO from hours to minutes
• Ability to accomplish reporting of Inn Locations by multiple categories for Summarized Reporting

The Solution Products:
Planning and Budgeting Cloud Services (PBCS)
Hyperion Financial Reports
Smart View Office Add-In

Number of Licenses:
50 licenses for the product were purchased