McDonnell Douglas IFPS

Project Driver

• Business Drivers
  • Consolidate Financial Planning Function
  • Streamline Corporate Financial Planning
  • Provide single financial planning toolset
  • Establish and leverage best business practices in the financial planning area

• Technology Drivers
  • Extraction of data from multiple mainframe systems and non-relational databases
  • Open, distributed system to meet strategic goals
  • Leverage/reuse existing models and scenarios
  • Provide for a scripting facility to support expert and novice users

Results

• Custom Develop open 3-tier C/S solution
• 6 month implementation

• Application - Target
  • Client - Visual Basic
  • Functionality - ANSI C
  • Data - Oracle
  • Environment NT and UNIX

• Benefits
  • Used during the same fiscal year
  • Supported business objective - consolidate financials for Bus. Units
  • Faster decision making based on timely, valid information
  • Improved reporting & maintainability