This global beauty company needed to modernize financial reporting by moving from SAP BW to a more flexible cloud-based, custom solution that could unify fragmented financial data into a consistent global view. The primary challenges were:
Fragmented financial data across 40 independent operating groups internationally, multiple ERP systems, limiting visibility across regions, products, customers, and stores.
Manual, inflexible legacy reporting that made it difficult to analyze P&L performance with speed and precision.
Need for trusted executive insights supported by centralized, timely, and drillable financial reporting.
This company selected Data Futures because they needed a partner with the depth of expertise to understand what a complex global reporting environment requires and the judgment to design a modern solution that was practical to operate at a global scale.
Expert-Led Delivery Model — the company trusted Data Futures’ senior team of experts to navigate the complexity of reporting, integration, and enterprise-scale architecture with precision and speed.
Modern Expertise Without the Hype —Data Futures designed a pragmatic cloud-based reporting architecture tailored to the business's operational and financial reporting needs.
Designed for Longevity — Data Future’s proposed solution functioned beyond a simple replacement of their existing business warehouse; it was a fully scalable reporting foundation capable of supporting evolving analytics, deeper financial visibility, and future business growth.
Data Futures designed and built a custom cloud-based data warehouse and reporting platform on AWS. Key features included:
A centralized cloud data warehouse integrating financial data from regional ERP systems.
Robust data structures and transformation logic to standardize P&L reporting across regions, products, customers, and stores.
Automated data pipelines supporting daily financial updates downstream.
Reporting models that supported interactive dashboards with drill-down capabilities.
Created the first unified global view of their product P&L, with visibility into financial performance across regions, products, customers, and stores, strengthening strategic decision-making and visibility into KPIs.
Improved reporting speed and flexibility with cloud-based dashboards and multiple daily data updates.
Enabled deep financial analysis through drill-down reporting from executive summaries to detailed P&L drivers.
