Inspired Entertainment delivers content, technology, hardware and services for regulated gaming, betting, lottery and leisure businesses across the world. Active in approximately 35 jurisdictions globally, it provides systems, terminals and content for more than 50,000 gaming machines in betting shops, pubs, gaming halls and more. And it delivers virtual sports products through more than 44,000 channels, 以及超过100个网站的数字游戏和超过19个其他娱乐解决方案,000 installed devices.
Business challenge
Inspired Entertainment needed a new, 统一的财务系统，实现更严格的报告和简化的流程.
Transformation
The company has moved from a fragmented approach, over-reliant on Excel, to a state-of-the-art solution that is delivering accurate, 来自单一来源的详细信息，支持严格的报告和明智的决策制定
Business benefits
- Accelerated reporting for enhanced business agility
- Improved forecasting enables informed, flexible management
- Accurate, integrated data for better decision making
Business challenge story
Responding to the need for better work/life balance
As a US company, Inspired Entertainment, whose shares are traded on the Nasdaq exchange in New York, 是否致力于采用更有效的财务报告方式. And when it acquired Novomatic UK’s Gaming Technology Group, 突然间，它又多了5个独立的内部金融系统需要处理.
“Workday Adaptive Planning极大地简化了我们的流程，并极大地改善了我们财务人员的工作/生活平衡.”
阿拉斯泰尔·哈里斯，灵感娱乐公司财务系统开发经理
Alastair Harris, Inspired Entertainment’s Finance Systems Development Manager, explains, “在收购之前，收集准确报告所需的所有集团数字和其他有价值的信息就已经很困难了，而收购之后就更难了。. Above all, it was taking its toll on our finance people.”
It was recognised across the business that a new, unified system was required, and the Inspired Entertainment team considered 15 different options. 首要考虑的是财务团队成员的工作与生活平衡. As Alastair Harris explains, “他们在很大程度上依赖Excel来支持他们的报告需求, 使他们过度依赖耗时且充满风险的手工流程. 这不仅给他们带来了压力，而且让他们很难跟上新上市公司的报告要求.”
“几乎从一开始，Workday就是我们员工想要的解决方案d.”
阿拉斯泰尔·哈里斯，灵感娱乐公司财务系统开发经理
Transformation story
A single version of data
One of the solutions the team looked at was Workday Adaptive Planning, which rapidly became a front runner in the selection process. “我们已经有信心，Workday将在所有真正重要的领域帮助我们,” Alastair Harris explains. “我们立即看到，它将为我们提供系统之间的单一版本数据，并为明智的决策提供支持, accurate forecasting. Beyond that, we fully supported onboarding ‘democracy’, and Workday was the solution that our people wanted.”
They liked the look and feel, 通过在私人生活中使用现代界面和消费应用程序，他们已经熟悉了. Above all, they could see that Workday’s ease of use, 灵活性和广泛的功能，使他们能够快速准确地构建复杂的报告, was set to make their lives much easier.
哈里斯还对被选中支持执行的顾问所提供的支持印象深刻, ICit Business Intelligence. 正如他所说:“实施工作是在COVID-19大流行期间进行的. 这意味着没有面对面的接触，而面对面的接触通常是这样一个项目的重要组成部分, 这个过程比“正常”时期要慢. 但是，it团队非常支持我们，并迅速让我们适应了使用新系统, 与我们分享他们的知识，并消除人们在执行过程中经常感到的挫败感，因为他们不得不继续做日常工作.”
Results story
Centralised, integrated and user friendly
Inspired Entertainment从手工流程和不同的数据源转移到一个集中的, 集成和用户友好的解决方案，是革命性的速度和简单的财务团队的季度报告在美国和英国.
According to Alastair Harris, “Improved work/life balance was practically immediate, 由于使用过时系统的挫折感被一键集成和管理数据的能力所取代.”
哈里斯和他的同事们也亲身体验了一个真正集成系统的好处, managing data from the company’s operations across the world. “It is far faster and simpler to use, with the risk of human error almost entirely eliminated,” he says. “我们可以看到，随着业务的增长，它有可能根据业务需求进行扩展.”
他还认为，它已经为财务部带来了重要的战略收益. As he says, “It will help change people’s jobs, 揭示了他们作为金融专业人士的价值所在. As we continue working towards a full forecasting solution, 它们将越来越多地与交付高质量预测分析和其他信息的能力联系在一起，这些信息可以帮助企业执行准确的场景规划并做出明智的决策. 这反过来又会推动未来的进步，因为我们越来越有能力吸引最优秀的人才.”
“实施Workday几乎完全消除了我们财务报告中人为错误的可能性.”
阿拉斯泰尔·哈里斯，灵感娱乐公司财务系统开发经理
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