Column5 UK is the UK branch of Column5 Consulting, a highly respected enterprise performance management (EPM) consulting firm. Our goal is to help our clients link strategy with execution in order to reach their performance objectives. We achieve this goal by streamlining and integrating an organisation's business processes—in other words, by making its business processes work smarter. We offer management advisory and technology implementation services, with a focus on SAP Business Objects, UBMatrix, and Microsoft applications.

To understand the value we bring to our clients, think about what decision-making would be like in your organisation if you could trust your numbers—really trust them across the board, across every division, by customer, by product, and by plant, globally. What if producing scenarios, plans, and forecasts took you far less time than it currently does and resulted in more accurate expectations for your organisation's future performance? What if you eliminated all the wasted effort in your management reporting process, in managers and employees manually pulling together information stored in disparate applications or in a proliferation of spreadsheets? Would these changes improve the quality and speed of decision-making within your organisation? Of course they would.

As business complexity increases, so does the need to improve the efficiency and integration of performance management processes companywide. Whether an organisation's key objective is to lower its cost to serve, drive up its market share, or improve its short-term profitability, remaining competitive requires the types of insights into financials and operations that effective EPM processes provide.

Many consulting firms that purport to optimize EPM processes consider their job complete when a piece of software is implemented. They measure the success of an engagement in terms of time saved by employees of the client company. At Column5, we recognize the value of process efficiency, but we aim to deliver a more comprehensive solution that improves an organisation's ability to meet its performance objectives.

Column5 is the perfect partner to help you improve your operational and financial planning, forecasting, reporting, and consolidation processes for two reasons: First, because we take a smart, holistic approach to performance management. And second, because we have more experience than most of our competitors, particularly in SAP Business Objects business intelligence (BI) and EPM technologies. Our consulting team encompasses both technology experts and experienced accountants who have a deep understanding of EPM best practices. Together, they provide pragmatic, workable solutions that help client organisations achieve their goals.

Column5 works across all industries, serving both the public and the commercial sector. Our clients include large enterprises that are household names and have revenue exceeding £1 billion, as well as small to midsize enterprises (revenues of £250 million to £1 billion). We tailor our solutions to fit each client organisation's complexity and needs.

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For more information about Column5, please call us at +44 (0) 20 7183 0760 or email us at info@column5.com.