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Practicing what we preach: Argano leverages Microsoft, Oracle, and Salesforce to drive 80% time savings and 25% accuracy lifts
Mark HermansWe approached this not as checking a box just to get it done. This was a company-wide transformation that would enable our expert teams to ‘walk the talk’ and use the same integrated, enterprise-level solutions they implement every day for our clients.
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The Challenge
As a leading digital consultancy, focused on high-performance operations, we practice what we preach and walk the talk. This success story speaks to Argano’s own journey using the same solutions it provides to clients. Read Microsoft’s version here.
The company needed to more efficiently integrate newly acquired specialty consulting firms into its portfolio, with the goal of unifying business units on a common solution to streamline operations and enhance visibility.
The challenges were decentralized financial data (new entities, disconnected silos), difficulty in resource planning, inefficient time tracking, and reconciling financial accounts, which could often take up to 20 business days.
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The Solution
The goal was to unify all business units on a common enterprise finance and operations solution and a single data source in a way that would streamline operations and enhance visibility across the entire business. The company leaned into:
- Microsoft Dynamics 365 Finance and Project Operations
- Salesforce CRM for pipeline, marketing campaigns, and sales management
- Oracle HCM for human capital management
These three pillars would bring all aspects of the business together. All data would flow into Microsoft Azure Data Lake, with Azure Synapse Analytics and Power BI creating a common data source for reporting and analytics.
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The Results
Implementation followed an incremental rollout cadence. Soon after go-live, the returns started to show with Dynamics 365 Project Operations integrating seamlessly with Dynamics 365 Finance, connecting billable time details to invoicing for a 20% improvement in productivity. But that was just the start.
Month-end closing dropped from nearly a month to just a few days for all acquired firms, shaving 80% off this complex task and resulting in an increase of 25% in billing accuracy. In addition, the time required to turn time sheets into billable invoices has dropped by 50% on average. Now, finance teams are more forward-looking in their tasks instead of spending so much time reconciling records from the past.