HOW A CLOUD EPM BECAME THE PANACEA FOR WIPRO'S PLANNING WOES

Gaurav Kedia, Vice President-Finance, Wipro explains how Cloudbased EPM came in handy when the organization tried to break away from the traditional offline planning processes

- Soma Tah

Any kind of business or corporate planning exercise for a large organization that has got 7 business units across almost 10 geographies, and 7-8 service lines, and so on can be a mammoth task in itself. So when IT services major, Wipro thought of a digital makeover for their entire planning process, the move was fairly self-explanatory.

Wipro’s planning process had largely been manual for a very long time, done mostly on spreadsheets and PPT, and consolidated manually, until they switched their planning and reporting processes to a cloud-based Enterprise Performance Management (EPM) platform. So what made them think of the shift?

Gaurav Kedia, Vice President-Finance, Wipro gives a peek into the challenges with traditional fine planning processes, and how an EPM platform took away the planning-related woes of Wipro and helped them streamline planning, forecasting, and reporting across the organization.