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Tuesday, February 27, 2007
Because the two systems did not communicate with one another, FOCUS Brands' staff did not have adequate tools for company-wide data analysis and reporting. FOCUS Brands' managers and executives had to rely on manually generated spreadsheets for consolidated views of the business. Not only being time-consuming, spreadsheets simply weren't up to the task.
Cinnabon was already using Lawson Financials. It owned the software, but outsourced the application management and maintenance. It also outsourced financial business processes. Carvel, on the other hand, used a different financial system, and had an in-house accounting and IT department.
FOCUS Brands faced the difficult task of consolidating the companies onto a single financial system and combining the various outsourced and in-house departments into a single unit. After an analysis of the two different financial systems, it became apparent that Lawson Financials was far better suited to supporting the FOCUS 5 vision. It was much more flexible, offered more sophisticated analysis and reporting tools, could more easily integrate data from different departments and systems, and had a Franchise Management component suited for handling the kind of billing, analysis, and reporting needed by FOCUS Brands.
FOCUS Brands implemented the Lawson Financials Suite of Applications, including the Franchise Management module, Lawson Business Intelligence products, including the Reporting Suite, Process Flow and Framework Services, as well as a number of other smaller components.
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