The Idaho Transportation Department (ITD) is tasked with keeping 12,000 miles of highway safe in the winter with a fleet of 450 snow plows. The department needed an effective way to track information related to plowing and improve overall efficiency.
Imagine managing 1,300 lakes and answering questions when your data is in disparate spreadsheets, databases, and paper files. That was the challenge faced by biologists in the Division of Sport Fish.
Through its energy-related programs, the Alaska Housing Finance Corporation (AHFC) was collecting detailed energy usage data. With a $300 million grant for a rebate program that gathered detailed energy usage before and after efficiency improvements, AHFC’s data was going to increase exponentially.
As a broker between food suppliers and distributors, our client’s processes and requirements had evolved over time, but their accounting application wasn’t designed to accommodate these changes. For example, the existing system only tracked transactions at the invoice level. However, each invoice could include multiple products, each of which is subject to different contract rules.
