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Customer Feedback and References
As a company with more than 7.500 employees, selling into 125 countries, we were looking for a highly flexible CPM system and an implementation partner who truly understands our business. We started with the project and we were highly satisfied with every aspect of the collaboration. Now we are happy to have both perfect support from the software vendor as well as from smartPM.solutions. Their Consultants take the ‘extra-mile’. We are happy to leverage their know how as ‘sparring partners’ for all strategic and hands-on questions related to Budgeting, Forecasting and Reporting.
Michael Magenreuter | Villeroy & Boch
Head of Group Controlling
At Hillebrand we needed to adopt our CPM system quickly because we wanted to include in our reporting and forecasting system the COVID-19 impact estimates. That’s why we reached out to smartPM.solutions on Thursday. Their consultants started working on the requirements, and our system was up and running with the specified enhancements (we call it ‘COVID-19 impact overview’) in our productive environment next day afternoon. This is what I call agile and helpful.
Anders Mortensen | Hillebrand Group AG
Group Finance Project Manager
If you have the courage to break up and re-arrange existing structures and processes, you can save a lot of time, effort and money with a centralized Project Performance Management tool. With the help of smartPM.solutions consultants, Hamburg Airport saves several Mio. Euro every year: As the logical result of the rigid and systemimmanent cost-control of the PPM tool – that resonates very well, considering software costs in the low six-digit range.
Julian Jirsak | Hamburg Airport
Director Project- Portfoliomanagement
Before, we needed around 5 to 8 man-days for each forecast and every budget to prepare the relevant files, i.e. all that is needed to prepare the actual data and compare it with the current plans. And if we talked about 5 to 8 man-days, then we are now talking about half a man-day, and this is only used to check the data for completeness. That is all the effort that we have now with data preparation.
Christoph Greiner | ORS
Financial Controller & Project Manager
We have been successfully working with smartpm.solutions’ Professional Services team for several years, with exceptional results regarding time to completion, agility and business results. As a Professional Services driven company, we use our Performance Management Solution for Budgeting, Reporting, What If Analysis and decision support – it helped us speed up our processes significantly and build a better foundation for our decisions. Even though my time available for the system is scarce because of my role as Group CFO, I personally create new content and administrate the system, since it is easy to use and we benefit from quick results.
Marcel Fäh | Helbling Group
Group CFO
We demand a lot from a CPM tool: it needs to allow for mid- and long-term bottom line simulation, including financial derivates impact analysis. We expect the system to connect data and experts from several departments and take our existing, spreadsheet based approach to the next level: this is what we call true integrated business planning. smartPM.solutions’ Professional Services team has built a fully functional prototype with our data in no time, including balance sheets for several periods. Because of their obvious expert know how in connected planning it was an easy decision for us. We expect to be able to work with the system in a few weeks.
Wilhelm Bayer | S-IMMO AG
Head of Finance and Controlling
As an innovative company, we are always actively looking for new processes and solutions. smartPM.solutions has convinced us of the advantages of their new AI-based models and their forecast quality.
Ingmar Gon | Follmann Chemie Group
Director Supply Chain Planning
With smartpm, we’ve found an innovative partner that has greatly simplified our planning process, saving our departments a significant amount of time. We are completely satisfied with smartPM; they offer excellent support, and the team is very friendly. That’s why we highly recommend them.
Mirko Weber | DEW21
Controller
We have relied on smartPM.solutions as a strong partner in the areas of support and service for several years now, and we have absolutely no complaints. We are grateful for the support we receive at all times and look forward to many more exciting projects in the future.
Thomas Radzun | Municipal Utilities Herne
Controller
We are a customer of smartpm and are very satisfied with the service they provide. This year, we implemented the consolidation module, smartpm.solutions. We were very surprised to find that the tool operates largely automatically, which has freed up a significant amount of time for the finance department to focus on analysis rather than data preparation.
Michael Heyne | Leipa Group
Manager Controlling
For me personally, working with the new planning software is a lot of fun … You can start ad-hoc analysis or link numbers at a speed that isn’t possible in any other planning system. You can click on a number in the report and then a completely different diagram is shown. That’s impressive.
Jean Seidel | GWG Wuppertal
Manager FP&A
We were looking for a flexible reporting and planning solution to cover our requirements in S&OP, Project/Client Performance Management and Integrated Financial Planning. What we gained was a very open and configurable CPM platform which was set up using expert implementation support from smartPM.solutions. They understood our business cases quickly and managed to help us obtain real value from the solution straight away.
Stephen Dews | Keylane
CFO
We used to spend hours juggling Excel spreadsheets to create accurate planning. Now we can generate detailed liquidity forecasts on a weekly basis at the touch of a button and have a seamless link to the forecast. This not only saves us an enormous amount of time, but also gives us an accurate picture of our financial situation.
Carina Fusswinkel | Carl Knauber Holding GmbH
Head of Finance
The high flexibility of the software and its intuitive handling convinced all along the line. Data reliability and consistency, and thus the foundation for proper business processes give us an enormous trust for fast and consistent decision making in several planning scenarios. Overall, we profit from completely new insights in our data, explaining better than ever our business units’ status as well as their respective development … This cannot be compared to the extremely transparent procedures in future. Particularly the high expert-skill level of the whole smartPM.solutions Team, the permanent availability of the employees and last but not least their grounded economic know-how, which was not only very helpful defining the planning processes, convinced us.
Thomas Weiler | Hirtenberger Group
Finance Director
INNIO chose smartPM.solutions as the technology and implementation provider because it had the expected solution flexibility and automation. Even during our first conversations, it felt like we were talking the same language. smartPM was always available for us and responded quickly to requests during the testing and planning phase.
Janos Venk | INNIO
VP Group Controlling
Our goal was to replace the old decentralized system with amodern integrated planning system. Forecasts during the year were also an issue. We wanted to relieve employees and use them to create more value. We have greatly benefited from the 25 years of EVU experience of the smartPM Teams and the existing system Content.
Bastian Kubik | Municipal Utilities Bochum Holding GmbH
Strategic Controlling
Thanks to the integrated way of working, we collect data only once, offer calculations are passed on in the workflow to project management, all reports are generated automatically and connected planning no longer requires manual intervention. Processes have turned lean, quality has increased significantly, and our team focuses on the essential, result-producing work. Within one year, we see a saving of time of at least 2,5 FTE across the entire company.
Arbi Araks | List GC
Head of Finance & Controlling
The project really brought us forward. Thanks to the highly flexible platform and the professional and uncomplicated cooperation with the consultants from smartPM.solutions, we have gained valuable quality time that we can now use for the really important tasks.The high level of user-friendliness of the systems, the good price-performance ratio and the comprehensive advice convinced us of the FP&A solution and smartPM.solutions. The quality of our data and forecasts as well as the speed has significantly increased. We’re able to apply new features and ways of thinking that the tool allows us, which were difficult to implement previously using Excel. As the next step, we are planning to integrate project performance management into our system.
Martin Schack | Municipal Utilities Lünen
Head of Commercial Services
Our consultants from smartPM.solutions have a very high level of specialist knowledge both in the field of business administration and in the specific topics of the transport and energy supply industry with regard to the requirements for planning and reporting. This is particularly important for us as a group. Due to their strong background, they have a perfect command of our controlling software and are therefore the single point of contact for us, guarantee fast response times and unbureaucratic help in an emergency. In addition, sPM take care of the coordination with technical service providers in the background, for example for software updates and connection of legacy systems such as SAP. That makes smartPM.solutions the ideal partner for all organizational and technical aspects of corporate planning, measure/project controlling and reporting.
Karin Kray | DSW21
Head of Group Controlling
I can no longer imagine making decisions or controlling without an integrated real estate controlling system. Neither in the strategic nor in the operational area. In it, we map the complete corporate planning and, based on this, develop our strategic goals and corresponding measures. The key figure system, the reports, forecasts and ad-hoc and scenario analyzes are also quickly available and supply the essential information.
We simply enjoy working with this system and the smartPM team. In doing so, we are increasingly improving our processes and the system independently. In the event that we need support with the implementation or new ideas, only the specialists from smartPM.solutions come into question. The smartPM team has convincing knowledge of the industry and is very reliable – we have only had good experiences with them so far.
Jan Philipp Obermann | GWG Wuppertal
Controller
The integration of Power BI by smartPM.solutions has revolutionized our financial planning and given us a completely new perspective on our company data. I highly recommend the MS Power BI technology and working with smartPM.solutions to everyone. Thanks to the customized planning solution, we can now make informed decisions and track our financial performance in real time. We are more efficient and effective. This frees up time to focus on our core business. So we were looking for a user-friendly, flexible tool, which we have now found and which was implemented by smartPM. Today, we are benefiting even more from the new solution than we expected: The smartPM team has proven to be the perfect partner for us — and the solution is a milestone in our transformation of financial processes.
Rolf Herrmann | ONEO
Head of Subsurface Engineering
In order to enable us to map the EU-Taxonomy criteria for our industry sector – the energy industry – extensive data collection, changes and enrichments in our existing data structures were necessary: reporting criteria are now required, which in large parts are not part of the accounting material. Extensive enrichment and interlinking of the existing data and systems is therefore necessary. … Very soon we made the decision to get external support for our Sustainability Controlling and Reporting. Our choice fell on the consulting team of smartPM.solutions. After an intensive briefing, the smartPM team rapidly got to grips with the subject and contributed a tremendous amount of energy to ensure that we were able to meet all the EU taxonomy requirements on schedule. As a result, the application has reached a scope and profundity that makes our reporting capability exemplary in terms of sustainability and environmental effectiveness; we were one of the first companies ever to be able to meet the reporting requirements on time. The fact that we succeeded in this great feat is also due to the know-how of the smartPM consultants and their dedication to the cause.
Ulrich Gathmann | MVV
Project Manager Sustainability Data and EU Taxonomy
We had to build our monthly sales reports with Excel in the past – this was error-prone, slow and painful. Now we automatically connect our reporting system to our source systems like SAP and Soptim. Thus we can analyze and report data ad-hoc or in a pre-defined, standardized way, addressing the needs of all stakeholders individually. It was a good decision to work with smartPM.solutions: they know the CPM software inside out, easily connect source systems and manage the project in a straight-forward way.
Markus Thun | Municipal Utilities Herne AG
Sales Controlling
As an international bank with more than 3.000 employees in seven countries, our requirements towards a CPM tool are extreme: we want to report, consolidate, forecast, analyse and simulate across several countries, reporting standards, languages and currencies using one technology. So we looked for one tool to cover these requirements and answer my ad-hoc questions in a user-friendly, flexible and fast way. smartPM.solutions’ team implemented the software in a very agile, effective and efficient way. Today we use the software as intended and benefit in more ways from the solution than I expected: smartPM.solutions’ team turned out to be the perfect partner for us – and the solution is a landmark in a Finance Transformation.
Christian Kubitschek | Addiko Bank
Group CFO
The consultants at smartPM.solutions provided us with comprehensive support during the consolidation of the DEW21 subgroup using the UNIT4 FP&A software. Any questions, suggestions, and technical issues that arose were addressed promptly and resolved competently and effectively. This enabled us to significantly accelerate the intercompany reconciliation process while maintaining consistently high data quality. Thanks to this data quality, the final consolidation of the DEW21 subgroup was carried out without any issues.
Rüdiger Tesch | DEW21
Head of Business Administration
Here at myAbility, we needed a flexible planning system that was easy to use and could be expanded in a modular fashion. With smartPM.solutions, we found the right implementation partner, and with JEDOX, we found the right technology for our workforce planning and integrated financial planning.
Michael Aumann | myAbility
Managing Director & Partner
Markus Edlinger, Head of Consulting at smartPM.solutions, personally oversees multi-project management at AIT, demonstrating exceptional dedication, extensive project management expertise, and excellent technical skills.
Gerald Karolyi | AIT GmbH
Head of Business Administration & Group Controlling