Australian Naval Infrastructure

TechnologyOne's software and consulting services, have allowed ANI to focus on the success of its major projects and has empowered its staff with complete financial visibility.

“The key benefit is that there’s no longer a need for reconciliations. Everything is talking to each other and there’s one source of the truth,” Mr Di Giacomi said.

ANI’s access to on-demand consulting has also allowed it to reduce the time spent creating critical end-of-month reports.

“We saved a couple of days off our end-of-month processes. When we started we were turning our end of month around in a week and a half, now it’s down to just four days.”

ANI’s previous system lacked functionality, meaning simple processes such as transaction management, reconciliations and basic reporting were unnecessarily complex.

The requirement to fix these issues was extremely pressing, and as a result we opted to implement a basic configuration of the software to meet ANI’s tight timeframes.

This meant specific functions were prioritised for the implementation to be as quick as possible. This meant there were gaps in employee knowledge of the software and change management between the systems.

As a result, staff weren’t always fully aware of the solution’s potential, so would revert to their previous processes.

“When we first started, we were taking data sets out of TechnologyOne, not realising it was able to do everything we wanted,” Mr Di Giacomi said.

“Since signing up for AMS our financials are just a push of a button as the team has helped us to understand the system’s potential and the efficiencies that come with having that expert knowledge available on-demand when we need it.

“It would have taken us 10 hours or more to create those financials ourselves.”