Canal + Cyfrowy is one of the leading companies in the Polish media market, the operator Digital TV platform as well as the broadcaster of television channels: Canal, Canal Film / Canal Film HD, Canal Sports / Canal Sport HD, Canal Sport2 and cinema but! ZigZag / Hyper, MiniMini, Planet and Kuchnia.tv. The company strengthens its leading position in the market of television, develops and establishes a basis Subscriber services based on new technologies such as DSL, HDTV and PVR. Currently, the company has more than one million subscribers. For their service Canal + uses a specialized system of the type of CRM / ERP. Financial and accounting system used in CANAL + Cyfrowy Sp. z o.o. is a local solution: Simple and contains standard functionality, such as debts, liabilities and payroll. This system became the main source of data for EURECA ... next to spreadsheets of all the target users of new system.
Before there is EURECA:
Current methods for obtaining information in the budgeting process CANAL + Cyfrowy does not differ too much from market practice. Between the financial department and the various units involved in organizational planning circulated dozens of spreadsheets. Each year more and more sophisticated and demanding more and more work on their consolidation. The managers of each department who would have access to data on the budgets of their performances, they could not independently use the appropriate sources of data but had to order necessary report at financial departament. In a dynamically growing company, this type of organization of work is completely inefficient. Controllers lose too much time in collecting and processing data have it less and less on analysis of information that can be found in these data. This type of situation could not longer be tolerated and the company's executives decided to look for solutions on the market, which would release the personnel from unnecessary and inefficient work.
"The changes, however, could not be suddenly introduced and imposed by top-down approach. With such serious operation, which is to implement a BI system, the process of selecting a particular solution, and then its implementation, must include future key members of the team "- said Bartosz Szwoch, Deputy Director in the Financial CANAL + Cyfrowy. "Only when inviting them to work together on the final goal which we want to achieve, we can avoid many problems or overcome resistance, which is natural and understandable behavior with such changes. Especially in a situation where over the last few years gathered a lot of experience and knowledge, enabling us to rule the Sea of information, using simple tools such as a spreadsheet. "- Bartosz Szwoch continues.
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