Polk County sought to transform and automate its budgeting and planning processes. Its legacy system was disjointed and operated inefficiently, resulting in labor-intensive, error-prone business processes. The County required a best-in-class, enterprise-wide solution to manage its Operating, Capital, and Position budgeting, and to eliminate the manual processes around gathering, managing, entering, and reporting data.
Polk County sought a centralized solution that would:
With Oracle PBCS and AST Opex Planning, all of the County’s planning and budgeting objectives are met with a seamless and reliable solution set.”
Patrick Callahan VP, EPM and Analytics, AST LLCAST proposed a Cloud transformation for the County that included Oracle Planning and Budgeting Cloud Service (PBCS) and AST’s own Opex Planning as the ideal solution set to address Polk’s complex budgeting challenges. These applications provide a centralized, web-based planning and forecasting solution to streamline the County’s budgeting processes.
Polk County was able to quickly adopt out-of-the-box workflow, providing administrators the necessary tools to monitor progress for key stakeholders. With PBCS, the County is able to perform quick financial calculations on large volumes of data.
Additional benefits of the implementation include:
AST has frequently partnered with Polk County on enterprise solutions. Our knowledge of the customer and their unique requirements enabled us to implement a modern and transformative planning and budgeting solution.
