"From our early discussions with Taysols and OneStream, it became clear that we were dealing with organisations who understood our challenges in Group Finance. The project has proven to be an outstanding success thanks to a great team of Wesfarmers, Taysols and OneStream personnel, and we’re looking forward to further developing key initiatives in future phases".
General Manager, Group Accounting, WESFARMERS
Ingenia knew we had huge potential in our data, but we were struggling to make themost of it. Engaging the Taysols team has enabled us to now gain insights into our business that are supporting key decisions. The Azure platform including data integration and Power BI and with its ability to support Snowflake, has allowed us to be agile in our delivery of these outcomes and deliver quick wins along the way
Group Planning & Analysis Manager
In selecting the team from Taysols and their technology partner OneStream, we were confident that we had the best combination in the country to assist us with this critical initiative. Our group is comprised of highly diversified businesses including industrial services, media, energy and investments and therefore needed a highly credentialed and experienced partner to ensure we met our strategic objectives.
SGH CFO
NBN Co was established in 2009 to design, build and operate Australia’s wholesale broadband access network. The biggest single infrastructure project in Australia’s history.
In April 2013, NBN Co commenced a Workforce Planning Transformation Program. A significant aspect of this program was the development of a strategic workforce planning solution that, in a single system, delivers insights into internal labour demand and supply as well as prevailing labour market forces. Following a successful proof-of-concept, Taysols was engaged to deliver the solution using Oracle’s Hyperion Planning and Business Intelligence suite of products. The project was delivered on time and under budget.
Since then, Taysols has been a trusted partner of NBN Co’s and has been instrumental in the success of the Oracle Hyperion Planning deployments within NBN Co’s including, but not limited to, delivering innovative solutions around:
With a newer on-premise version of Oracle Hyperion Planning as well as Oracle’s next generation Cloud offering available, NBN Co looked to investigate what is involved in either updating their existing on-premise Hyperion Planning system or migrating to the cloud-based Planning and Budgeting Cloud Service (PBCS).
As part of the decision-making process, NBN Co engaged Taysols to conduct an assessment of its current environment and provide an analysis of what would be involved to:
The input provided by Taysols as part of this assessment helped NBN Co to make the decision to migrate the existing on-premise application directly to Oracle PBCS.
After going to market for a consultancy to assist them on this journey, NBN Co decided to award Taysols the engagement to perform the migration. Taysols was selected as the successful consultancy due to our depth of knowledge of NBN Co, its planning processes and culture combined with a proven ability to deliver outstanding outcomes and expertise in Cloud solutions and our expertise with Oracle PBCS.
The project commenced in July 2019 and, given the nature of the on-premise solutions and in a bid to maximise NBN Co’s return on investment, Taysols managed to consolidate 7 on-premise planning applications into 4 PBCS-based ones, streamlining processes along the way. We also took advantage of enhanced security protocols in place at NBN. The project also involved rebuilding many aspects of data integration and metadata management.
This project was completed in November 2019, on time and on budget and achieved the double objective of increasing NBN Co’s ROI and streamlining processes to achieve greater insight.
For more information, please feel free to contact Jennifer Michael on jmichael@taysols.com.au
We are over the moon with the results OneStream’s integrated platform for financial consolidation and management reporting offers. Not only were we able to standardise and automate our processes, but we also significantly reduced the time needed to generate our corporate reports. In Taysols we have an exceptional and trustworthy partner, who supported us 100% along the way. Never too tired to go the extra mile and push the project forward, so that we were up in running in less than five months. Having our solution hosted by Taysols is definitely a big benefit as well, as we can rely on their highly specialised team and their very secure Australian based Tier III data centres.
Commercial Manager and Global Systems Project Leader
Oracle Planning and Budgeting Cloud is a mature and flexible solution, so it fits well for a medium-sized enterprise like us. A good implementation partner, like Taysols, is also critical to the success of this project.
National Manager, Information Services
An undertaking such as Project Monaro could never be easy and so the selection of the right partner was absolutely pivotal. Taysols was a great choice! Their team worked closely with ours and delivered a solution that has and will continue to provide significant benefits for Seven West Media. It was obvious from the start that use of their hosting environment to run the system made everyone’s life so much easier. They worked hard and smart and delivered the goods within budget. Who could ask for more.
Financial Control and Reporting Manager
Taysols' Strategic Workforce Planning solution allows us to perform all elements of the strategic workforce planning process in a single system. The insights derived form this tool make a large difference into whether nbn™ meets the planning challenges posed by the rollout of the national broadband network. Compared to other technology initiatives with which I have been involved, I was very impressed with Taysols' willingness to meet issues head on and manage flexibly to ensure our project was successfully delivered.
GM Planning, Rewards & Sourcing
Taysols' extensive knowledge of Oracle Hyperion products ensured we ended up with a system that met our requirements. They've been the real insight behind the solution. Thanks to Taysols, we have a system that delivers real value to our business.
Head of Finance
The expertise provided by Taysols has been outstanding. We view Taysols as a reliable business partner for the ongoing development, support and hosting of our Hyperion solution.
Finance Director
The wealth of knowledge and expertise brought in by Taysols helped in mitigating the risks associated with our HFM implementation project and also contributed to a better change management process. Having hands-on consultants with the drive and ‘can do’ attitude meant we could approach this project with utmost confidence in achieving the desired outcome. We have much gratitude for the hands on, professional services we received from Taysols.
Financial Controller
Yoma Bank is one of Myanmar’s largest private banks, with over 3,000+ employees and 80 branches across the country. Over the past few years, Yoma Bank has made significant investments in strategic priorities namely people, corporate governance, and technology.
One of these strategic priorities is to develop an enterprise data warehouse to support Business Analytics and Financial Reporting and then to extend this to include Advanced Analytical capabilities such as Customer 360 and Next Best Offer analysis. Yoma Bank wanted as much as possible for their local team to develop this solution but also recognised that there was a gap in their knowledge and experience to deliver this initiative.
Yoma Bank went to market for an experienced Data Analytics partner and chose to partner with Taysols after considering several consultancies around the Asia Pacific region
As part of their commitment to invest in its people, Yoma Bank asked Taysols to assist and train the local Yoma Bank resources to deliver the solutions according to industry best practice and ensure that the team worked towards becoming self-sufficient for the subsequent phases.
Taysols’ years of experience in delivering these solutions for our clients has shown that the best way to deliver Yoma Bank’s desired outcomes is to have Taysols’ personnel work alongside the members of the Yoma Bank team during the installation and configuration of the relevant Oracle technologies. Working closely and collaboratively with the Yoma Bank team allows for vital knowledge transfer to be delivered through hands-on workshops, solution-specific documentation and face to face consultations
Taysols began with a review of the solution design and assisted the local team with the configuration and integration of:
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Underpinning all of this was the security of the information within Yoma Bank and so the Taysols team worked closely to integrate their security requirements into the solution through the integration of Azure Active Directory to provide a seamless login experience and flow on data security controls. Most importantly the project was delivered on time and on budget and has set the local Yoma Bank team for future success as they expand their analytics capabilities.
Taysols, with their extensive experience in both planning technology and processes, helped us achieve our goals sooner and with less effort than would otherwise have been the case.
Business Reporting Manager
Key to Taysols selection was the professional approach and the quality of references provided. Reference calls can be quite revealing. The Taysols clients we contacted praised their professionalism and their subject matter expertise. A key differentiator was the resounding endorsement for the Taysols consultants.
Chief Financial Officer
The Taysols team was able to assist the finance team as well as provide strong technical guidance. Taysols were intimately involved in developing every aspect of the new system.
Group Chief Accountant
There are a number of vendors out there that purport to offer the complete range of services required to undertake a hosted performance management solution and on the surface, they all look fairly similar. Once we dug a little deeper however, the choice became simple and we selected Taysols because of their unparalleled experience with the enabling technology, group accounting and, very importantly their hosting track record. The fact that they delivered on time, on budget and we have not had a single issue with their hosting only emphasises the validity of our decision. Their people are top notch.
Head of IT
Taysols is an Oracle partner with experience, capability and shared vision for excellence. They well and truly lived up to their ‘do it with you, not to you’ slogan, which was instrumental in the project's success.
Controller - Financial Reporting
Whenever we contacted Taysols they were very responsive and provided the solution to our query or problem in a time frame that often exceeded our expectations. As a result people had the information they required and the budget process flowed very smoothly allowing us to meet the deadlines given to us by Hitachi Construction Machinery Japan.
General Manager Finance
Taysols’ consolidation expertise added great value to reforming our group reporting processes; jointly we designed and deployed a solution that is future-proof and forms the basis of an ongoing strive towards better a Business Performance Management practice. Taysols’ dedication to this project was remarkable.
Group MIS Manager
Implementing a unified Enterprise Performance Management platform in a diverse environment like the University is a difficult undertaking. The leadership of Taysols greatly assisted the University in achieving the desired outcome and realising the associated benefits. We are now in an excellent position to build on our gained capabilities and incorporate other systems in the EPM framework.
Director Financial Operations and Systems
Taysols was selected by UTS because of its solid understanding of budgeting, reporting and forecasting processes and for its depth of expertise across a wide range of market leading technologies. These skills are supported by extensive experience in the University sector.
Deputy Vice-Chancellor and Vice-President (Resources)
The relationship with Taysols has developed into a true business partnership extending beyond the end date of the initial project. Today we keep jointly working on system enhancements resulting in tangible benefits to LexisNexis.
Chief Financial Officer
R&D
Taysols consultants understand financial consolidations and the requirements of group finance. With their help, we managed to deliver the project on time and within budget.
Finance Director
We wanted to get as many efficiency improvements as we could, so we needed consultants that could help us through the process and add value rather than just provide technical expertise. We found the relevant experience and skills in our consulting partner Taysols.
Group Financial Controller
The tools developed by Taysols have assisted us in rapid information delivery to very senior levels of management. The data is presented in such a way that Country MDs and Sales Team Directors are interested in viewing the data directly in the tool rather than waiting for the information to be delivered by Finance.
Senior Manager Asia Pacific Finance Systems.
