Case Studies

SOX Compliance Report Modification

Issue Our client lacked expertise with the Aligne application to quickly prepare needed reports while maintaining controls set by the company. Solution Our consultant captured requirements, documented specifications, then built, tested, and deployed a solution while maintaining SOX compliance. They learned the company’s change management process, prepared documentation, and tested the output as required by […]
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Improved Nightly Batch Process

Issue Our client’s primary nightly batch process ran over two hours and occasionally did not finish due to the amount of data being processed. The client expected a solution to be implemented within a short time frame. Solution The consultant met with various functional groups to determine how the existing information was utilized and how […]
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Improved Overnight Invoice Process

Issue This client’s primary invoicing report failed overnight several times per month. In addition, users could not perform basic invoicing operations in the invoice system GUI. Solution Our consultant had a thorough understanding of the client’s invoicing process and was able to modify the reports and application configurations to prevent failures. Result MidDel’s consultant devised […]
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Redundant and Incomplete Reports

Issue The client is an electric services company running its business reporting on an aging data model. Hundreds if not thousands of reports had accumulated under an outdated data model that no longer met the business's needs: Many reports were outright duplicates or no longer used, with little to no documentation. Report users were too […]
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Cash Month P&L Variance Reduction - Forecast to Actual

Issue Our client’s daily intra-month P&L report had significant variances when compared against the month end actual P&L results. These variances contributed to loss of confidence and trust between the corporate executives and the front and back office. Our objective was to reduce variation and re-establish confidence in the process, thus increasing executive trust in […]
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