Plan better, succeed faster
ICit Business Intelligence helps CFOs and finance leaders eliminate the spreadsheet risks and budget cycle delays that prevent strategic decision-making. As specialists in enterprise FP&A software implementation, we’ve completed 1000+ transformations using Workday Adaptive Planning and IBM Planning Analytics – reducing budget cycles from months to weeks, delivering complete audit trails, and enabling scenario planning in hours instead of days.
Our award-winning consultants don’t just implement software; we transform financial planning from a compliance exercise into a strategic advantage, giving you the clarity and control to plan with confidence.
If you’d like to discuss how we can help to transform your corporate financial planning and analysis, or arrange a free personal demo.
OUR SERVICES
Your partner from consultation to implementation and beyond
ICit’s planning professionals will expertly guide you through every stage of your planning transformation – from product selection and implementation to training your team. We’re here to guarantee a successful planning future for you.
TECHNOLOGY PARTNERS
Industry-leading business planning solutions
THE NUMBERS
Dedicated to our clients’ success
We have implemented more than 1000 FP&A software projects successfully, with the sole focus of empowering our clients to plan efficiently and enabling them to have the business agility and decision-making capability they need to make the best strategic decisions.
Success Stories
Hear powerful customer stories and the reasons why they chose Workday Adaptive Planning
as the perfect FP&A solution.
Customer Case Studies
THEIR WORDS
“ICit’s detailed knowledge of the system and rigorous approach made our implementation a real success. We have already created our first budget and are using Adaptive to automate reports in seconds that would have taken hours to update.”
“ICit was a big differentiator for me. Their consultants really wanted to understand the challenges we were trying to overcome, and at the same time provide the team with as much information as possible in order to make an informed decision. ”
“The whole project took just three months, and we were actually able to release several applications to users even before the main go-live. We started getting value from the solution very quickly.”
“We were extremely impressed by the expertise of the ICit team. Thanks to their responsive, professional approach, we were able to complete the IBM Planning Analytics implementation on time and within budget.”
“ICit Business Intelligence were able to provide both industry and planning expertise to the implementation and we were live very quickly.”
FAQs
Q: How quickly can we reduce our budget cycle time?
Most organisations reduce budget cycles from 4-6 months to 2-3 months within the first year of implementation. ICit’s proven methodology delivers immediate impact – our clients typically see 40-50% cycle time reduction within the first planning cycle, growing to 75% reduction as teams fully adopt the platform. For example, monthly forecasting that took 10 days can be completed in 2-3 days, and annual budgeting shrinks from 12 weeks to 3-4 weeks.
Q: What’s the real cost of staying with spreadsheet-based planning?
CFOs often underestimate the hidden costs of Excel-based planning. Beyond the obvious time drain (finance teams spending 60-80% of their time on data consolidation instead of analysis), spreadsheet planning carries significant risks: version control errors that affect board reports, broken formula links that corrupt forecasts, limited audit trails that concern auditors, inability to perform real-time scenario analysis during strategic discussions, and manual processes that don’t scale with business growth or M&A activity. The opportunity cost of delayed strategic decisions often exceeds the implementation investment within months.
Q: How long does FP&A software implementation actually take?
ICit’s implementations typically complete in 12-16 weeks from kickoff to go-live, with most clients running parallel processes for just one planning cycle before fully transitioning. This includes requirements analysis, data integration, model building, workflow configuration, comprehensive user training, testing, and go-live support. Unlike vendors who quote “8 weeks to implementation” but leave you configuring for months afterward, our timeline includes everything needed for successful deployment – you’ll be planning independently at week 16, not just starting to figure out the software.
Q: How do you eliminate spreadsheet risk and ensure audit compliance?
Enterprise planning platforms eliminate the inherent risks of spreadsheet-based processes through five key controls: complete audit trails tracking every data change, user action, and assumption update with timestamps and user IDs; automated validation rules that prevent data entry errors and enforce business logic; controlled workflow processes with approval hierarchies and sign-offs; single-source-of-truth architecture eliminating version control issues; and comprehensive data lineage showing exactly how every number was calculated. These capabilities satisfy SOX compliance requirements, internal audit standards, and external auditor expectations – providing the documentation and controls that spreadsheets simply cannot deliver.
