Banc of California is an American bank serving the state of California with over 80 branches in Southern California, as well as locations in Denver, Colorado, and Durham, North Carolina.[3] Banc of California offers a broad range of loan and deposit products and services, focusing on providing banking and treasury management services to small, middle-market, and venture-backed businesses.
Dodeca quickly became an essential tool for building out financial statements and comparable reports. The software also helped to streamline their budgeting process by migrating it from Excel to a single, easily accessible location. BoC benefited from the software's ability to integrate with various databases, its reporting lockdown feature, and its overall speed and reliability.
Estimations that Dodeca saved approximately one full-time employee's worth of time and effort, with potential cost savings of around $150,000.
Banc of California has been a customer since 2019.
Deckers Brands is a global company that designs, markets, and distributes footwear, apparel, and accessories for casual and high-performance use. The company's portfolio includes brands such as UGG, HOKA, Teva, Koolaburra, Sanuk, and AHNU.
The Finance team’s reception of Dodeca was hugely enthusiastic due to the value proposition baked into Dodeca with Essbase: its ease of use, support for secondary navigation, drill-through, and commentary. Together, these elements not only allowed users to quickly retrieve the reports they need, but made those reports interactive and provided a highly efficient way to answer the questions raised by the numbers. Using Dodeca commentary, analysis of financial results could then be immediately shared across the organization. Dodeca is a reporting, budgeting, and forecasting tool for both the GL and employee-level salary planning.
Deckers Brands has presented on Dodeca at multiple international Oracle User conferences and participated on the Dodeca Customer Panel sessions.
“Efficiencies that Dodeca offers can unlock time saving opportunities for my staff and can help them put data analysis ahead of data assembly.”
- Stephanie Ochoa, VP of FP&A
Deckers Brands has been a customer since 2020.
Deckers Brands is a global company that designs, markets, and distributes footwear, apparel, and accessories for casual and high-performance use. The company's portfolio includes brands such as UGG, HOKA, Teva, Koolaburra, Sanuk, and AHNU.
The Finance team’s reception of Dodeca was hugely enthusiastic due to the value proposition baked into Dodeca with Essbase: its ease of use, support for secondary navigation, drill-through, and commentary. Together, these elements not only allowed users to quickly retrieve the reports they need, but made those reports interactive and provided a highly efficient way to answer the questions raised by the numbers. Using Dodeca commentary, analysis of financial results could then be immediately shared across the organization. Dodeca is a reporting, budgeting, and forecasting tool for both the GL and employee-level salary planning.
Deckers Brands has presented on Dodeca at multiple international Oracle User conferences and participated on the Dodeca Customer Panel sessions.
“Efficiencies that Dodeca offers can unlock time saving opportunities for my staff and can help them put data analysis ahead of data assembly.”
- Stephanie Ochoa, VP of FP&A
Deckers Brands has been a customer since 2020.
BenefitMall is dedicated to the health insurance broker community, leveraging their deep industry expertise, extensive carrier partner network, and cutting-edge digital technology. They are an All-In-One Broker Services Platform for Employee Benefits & Insurance Plans.
BenefitMall has been a Dodeca customer since 2016.
Addax Petroleum has been a customer since 2013.
Abbott has been a customer since 2015, and presented “Essbase Does It, but Dodeca Makes It Easy” session at the 2016 ODTUG’s Kscope conference and the 2016 OAUG’s Collaborate conference.
Principal Financial Group is a global financial services company that specializes in providing retirement solutions, insurance products, and investment services to individuals, businesses, and institutional clients, focusing primarily on helping people plan for and secure their retirement through offerings like annuities, 401(k) plans, and life insurance, with operations across North America, Europe, Asia, Australia, and Latin America.
Principal uses Dodeca in various capacities. Some interesting applications are calendar workflow management and running validations. Ensuring data integrity is of utmost importance. Through the automation and scheduling of the validation process, they have saved hundreds of hours per year. Principal validates data between HFM, Essbase, and General Ledger.
Principal has presented on Dodeca at multiple international Oracle User conferences, and Dodeca Summits.
Principal has been a customer since 2010.
The Rosewood Corporation is a multi-generational, family-owned and operated company with investments in public and private securities, commercial real estate, energy, and other interests.
Lynn Mahurin, Vice President for the Rosewood Corporation, is featured in this video and talks about how The Rosewood Corporation significantly reduced costs and increased productivity by implementing Dodeca.
Rosewood has presented on Dodeca at multiple international Oracle User conferences and participated in Dodeca Customer Panel sessions.
Rosewood has been a customer since 2012.
SuperValu has been a customer since 2006.
Tanimura has been a customer since 2017.
National Express is a transportation company. They offer a variety of services including bus, train, light rail and coach transportation.
National Express had challenges with managing spreadsheets for important financial requirements. Dodeca was the best solution for their corporate needs, reducing the risks inherent in spreadsheets.
National Express has been using Dodeca since 2014.
“Dodeca is allowing us to look at our business in a consistent way, removing the unnecessary need to reconcile and review assumptions. Build the report once and use many times at all levels in the organization.”
- Alejandro Castro, CFO
Bimbo has been a customer since 2014.
Enlink has been a customer since 2012.
Manulife is a leading international financial services group that provides financial advice, insurance, as well as wealth and asset management solutions for individuals, groups and institutions. It is the largest insurance company in Canada.
Manulife built an application accessing DB2.
Manulife presented on Dodeca at multiple international Oracle User conferences and participated on the Dodeca Customer Panel sessions.
Manulife has been a customer since 2012 with 3000 users.
Telenet has been a customer since 2010.
Sullivan & Cromwell is a prestigious global law firm, founded in 1879 by Algernon Sydney Sullivan and William Nelson Cromwell, renowned for its expertise in advising major corporations on complex financial and corporate matters, particularly in areas like mergers and acquisitions, securities law, and international transactions.
Sullivan and Cromwell has been a Dodeca customer since 2008.
Forestar has been a customer since 2012.
Simply Market is a member of Auchan Super with operations in France, Spain, Italy, Poland, Russia, and Tunisia. Auchan operates 859 integrated supermarkets has 32,700 employees and had over 8 billion in revenue in 2012.
Christophe Delrive – Head of Reporting and Budget Process – AuchanSuper/ISMS stated, “With Applied OLAP’s Dodeca Spreadsheet Management System and the support of ARRA Consulting, ISMS has been able to drastically simplify the deployment and the maintenance of interactive and dynamic spreadsheets linked to our central Essbase Applications, across our 255 supermarkets. The ease of use of Dodeca combined with powerful functions allowed us to revamp our previously existing Excel templates to provide our users a more user-friendly and totally secured interface for collecting our reporting and various forecast figures.” Simply Market has been a customer since 2013.
Schneider Electric has been a customer since 2011.
Calix Inc., together with its subsidiaries, engages in the provision of cloud and software platforms, and systems and services in the United States, rest of Americas, Europe, the Middle East, Africa, and the Asia Pacific. Its cloud and software platforms, and systems and services enable broadband service providers (BSPs) to provide a range of services.
One use case for Dodeca is Product Cost Modeling. They created dashboards for manufacturing.
Calix presented on Dodeca at multiple international Oracle User conferences.
“Dodeca answers simply the questions that can’t be answered simply.”
– Tony Banta, SVP Manufacturing Operations
Calix has been a customer since 2010.
Four Seasons Hotels and Resorts is a globally recognized luxury hospitality company renowned for its exceptional service, high-quality properties, and personalized attention, focusing on providing a premium travel experience with a commitment to consistently exceeding guest expectations across its portfolio of hotels and resorts worldwide.
Financial calculations for each of their 120 managed properties was very different and formerly required multiple manually-prepared spreadsheets per property be created and maintained on a monthly basis for billing and on a quarterly basis for budgeting and forecasting. Dodeca enabled the contractual rules written into a database from which the spreadsheets are automatically generated saving tremendous amounts of time while enforcing consistency in the spreadsheet generation. This process improvement became critical during the pandemic with rapidly changing business requirements when weekly forecasts where necessary to maintain business continuity.
Four Seasons Hotels and Resorts has presented on Dodeca at multiple international Oracle User conferences and participated on the Dodeca Customer Panel sessions.
Four Seasons Hotels and Resorts has been a Dodeca customer since 2017.
Ontario has been a customer since 2010.
Kewaunee specializes in the manufacture of laboratory furniture and equipment, such as work tables, service stations, cabinets and storage spaces, ventilation systems - in general, everything necessary to ensure a safe environment in a laboratory.
Dodeca facilitated creating dynamic reporting and reduced the number from 30 down to 6 reports. They are using Dodeca for Sales and Inventory applications utilizing Essbase and SQL.
Kewaunee has been a Dodeca customer since 2022.
Big Lots has been a customer since 2005, and the CIO presented the session Hyperion Essbase and Merchandise Planning Deliver Solid Technology to Solve Big Lots’ Toughest Challenge at the Hyperion Solutions 2005 Global Conference.
MasterCard is a global payment technology company that connects people, businesses, financial institutions, and governments through a network of electronic payment cards.
Mastercard converted their finance spreadsheets into secure Dodeca applications in a matter of days.
Dodeca is used to create Cascades in reports, saving significant time and reducing the number of reports needed.
Mastercard has been a Dodeca customer since 2014.
Nestle is a Swiss multinational food and beverage company that is the world's largest in its industry: Nestlé offers products under their 8,500 brands. They sell products in 188 countries. Nestle ranks 50th on the Fortune Global List.
Previous attempts using SAP technology were unsuccessful due to the sophisticated allocations required for shrink-wrap products. Revenues and costs need to be allocated to the respective individual product owners. These complex allocations were accomplished using the Dodeca extensibility model to guide data through several databases.
Nestle replaced their SAP application and built a mission-critical forecasting system for 250,000 products in Dodeca. They have users in 50+ countries.
Nestle has been a customer since 2011 and has over 2,000 licenses.
HBO is a subscription based streaming platform that features blockbuster movies, documentaries, and concert specials.
HBO shortened Close tasks from days to minutes. They compute license fees due on a monthly basis with Dodeca.
HBO has been a customer since 2012.
David Weekley Homes is a large, privately-held home builder based in Houston, Texas, known for constructing high-quality, customized single-family homes across multiple markets in the United States Recognized multiple times by Fortune magazine as one of the "100 Best Companies to Work For"
They use Dodeca for financial analysis, reporting and for a widely deployed planning application backed by an Essbase database.
David Weekley Homes has been a customer since 2008.
Belcan is a global engineering and technology company that provides services to the aerospace, defense, automotive, industrial, and government sectors. Belcan offers design, software, manufacturing, supply chain, information technology, and digital engineering solutions. Belcan's customers include the Department of Defense, the U.S. Army, U.S. Marine Corps, and U.S. Air Force.
With the help of Dodeca, Belcan is able to put together a ”Walks Report” that explains variances while providing an intuitive data entry process and centralized environment for all walks commentary. This has all been made possible with the event driven scripting inside of Dodeca and the ability to have multiple data connections on a report.
Belcan has presented on Dodeca at multiple international Oracle User conferences, participated on the Dodeca Customer Panel sessions and Dodeca Summits.
Belcan has been a Dodeca customer since 2020.
The Kroger Co. is one of the world's largest grocery retailers, with over 400,000 employees. They are currently ranked 25 on the Fortune 100. The Kroger Co. family of stores spans many states with store formats that include grocery and multi-department stores, discount, convenience and jewelry stores.
Mandatory weekly overtime was required every Saturday for the corporate reporting department to ensure timely creation of a key management report. The mandatory overtime was eliminated with Dodeca.
Another report, which was formerly generated daily at the store level, was automated using Dodeca and brought an estimated 1,500 man-hour per day time savings across the company.
The Achieving Best Store Expense application is unique in that it sets achievable cost containment targets for selected store-controllable expense accounts and provides store managers information about how other nearby stores are progressing towards their targets for these accounts. This is actionable, collaborative business intelligence at its best as Kroger is seeing store managers working together to achieve targets in their individual stores. They have estimated a cost savings over $500m with just this one Dodeca application.
Also. Kroger leveraged Dodeca toolbars and drill-through with Essbase and SQL to improve the user experience for senior executives.
Since the pandemic the Oracle suite and Dodeca tools went from a best-in-class analytics and predictive tool set to being the backbone of the lifeline in communities.
Kroger has presented on Dodeca at multiple international Oracle User conferences, and Dodeca Summits.
"Like most companies, we have a few really skilled business users who can easily navigate our systems to get the information they need. But in Dodeca, you can have lots and lots of people that have that same power at their fingertips."
- Elizabeth Ferrell, Assistant Corporate Controller/Executive
Kroger has been using our technology since 2001 and currently has 30,000+ Dodeca users.
Case Study:
Kroger Tactical Operations
Wells Fargo provides banking, insurance, investments, mortgage, and consumer and commercial finance. Wells Fargo is currently ranked 47th on the Fortune 500. It operates in 35 countries and serves over 70 million customers worldwide.
Wells Fargo has many Dodeca mission critical applications deployed throughout the bank. The Monthly Outlook / Forecast application is used to gather both numbers and variance analysis for the daily flash reports during the monthly close. This information is gathered and summarized for 2,000 business units daily by using Dodeca Commentary capture.
Wells Fargo has presented on Dodeca at multiple international Oracle User conferences, and Dodeca Summits.
“With Dodeca we can build an application that fits our business requirements. We don’t have to change our business process to fit the limitations of the software …If we think it, we can build it in Dodeca.”
Wells Fargo has been using our technology since 1999 and has over 10,000 Dodeca users.
Cantor Fitzgerald is a global financial services firm that specializes in equities, investment banking, and real estate, fixed income and currencies, prime services, and, affiliates. The firm is known for developing advanced technologies to expand market access, and help clients achieve their most important financial and strategic objectives. They are recognized leader in the specialized areas of equity and capital markets, offering an impressive array of products and services to more than 5,000 institutional clients around the world.
Cantor Fitzgerald uses Dodeca for advanced analytics of daily, monthly, quarterly and annual company results. They use Drill-through to access underlying data.
Case Study: How Cantor Fitzgerald Saved 25 Man-Days per Month Using Dodeca
Cantor has been a Dodeca customer since 2008.
H-E-B is a regional supermarket chain with more than 380 stores throughout Texas and Mexico. The company also operates Central Market, an upscale organic and fine foods retailer. H-E-B is one of the nation's largest independently owned food retailers.
H-E-B uses Dodeca for financial analysis, budgeting and reporting.
H-E-B has been using Applied OLAP technology since 2006.
