Capgemini provides business analytics services to help CFOs address key challenges around revenue growth, margin improvement, enhancing controls, and cashflow improvement. Their solution uses advanced analytics applied to client data to identify opportunities for savings, risk monitoring, and process optimizations. Benefits seen by clients include reducing costs by 27%, improving cashflow by reducing payment cycles by 36 days, and reducing pricing errors by 88%. Capgemini's dedicated analytics center leverages their experience in financial BPO to deliver tailored analytics insights and recommendations.

1. Business Analytics the way we do it
CFO Analytics
An end-to-end Analytics service delivering better business outcomes

2. The opportunity it possible to identify opportunities The solution
Today’s tough economic and for savings. The CFO also needs Capgemini’s solution uses advanced
business environment means an efficient process to stop any Business Analytics, applying them
that organizations are focusing leakages and wastage in payables mostly to data that our clients
strongly on the CFO agenda. and contracts. already have available in various
CFOs’ exact priorities depend on systems. Our analytics approach
industry, geographies, and level of Enhancement of controls is a aims to achieve business outcomes
organizational maturity, as well as core requirement for all CFOs. A that align with the CFO’s agenda.
on the efficiency of other functions business expects its CFO to provide Our well-established analytics
in the organization and the quality early warning of potential risks, to accelerators deliver benefits to
of underlying processes. control exceptions, and to provide CFOs in real time or near real time,
proactive and continuous assurance enabling them to take swift action
However, the key challenges for any across the business. No CFO can to drive improvements.
CFO are: wait for half-year or year-end audits
to tackle these issues. How it works
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Revenue growth We start with a joint session to
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Margin improvement Cashflow improvement requires understand the business vision
a coordinated effort to optimize and strategy, and to define the
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Enhancement of controls
Inventory Days, Days Sales objectives of the project. Our
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Cashflow improvement Outstanding, and Days Payables analytics accelerators help us
Outstanding. The CFO needs to identify the insights that the
Revenue growth requires the CFO visibility of the drivers influencing client needs, and hence the data
not only to support the business these variables, together with the requirements.
in identifying opportunities ability to identify any inefficiencies
for growth, but also to control quickly. Our BPO Analytics Center of
potential leakages in the Order- Excellence (CoE) uses historic and
to-Cash process, while keeping To meet these challenges, real-time data together with a range
processes efficient and agile enough CFOs need not only visibility of analytics accelerators, tools,
to meet the business’s customer and transparency across the algorithms and statistical models
service objectives. organization, but also high-quality to provide comprehensive analysis.
analytics that quickly highlight The CoE uses BPOpenTM Controller
Margin improvement demands exceptions and improvement Point, a platform-based solution
greater visibility of spend to make opportunities. combining a three-tier architecture
Revenue assurance analytics to
reduce leakage from order-to-cash process
Predicting credit risk and exposure
Trade funds – deductions and disputes
Pricing, discounts, and terms of trade
Revenue growth
Working capital analytics
to help improve cashflow Analysis of expenses to
Logistics/inventory Cashflow Margin help reduce wastage
Source-to-pay – Days Payables improvement improvement Payables analytics
Outstanding analytics Spend analytics
Order-to-cash – Days Sales Contract compliance
Outstanding analytics
Enhancement
of controls
Control analytics to help enhance
Process and financial risk analytics
Financial statement quality
Ethical fraud/fraud evidence reviews
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3. Business Analytics the way we do it
for data acquisition, aggregation, ƒƒ
Enhance the control environment Capgemini Business
and analysis, and capable of significantly with real-time Analytics
handling huge volumes of data financial risk monitoring through Capgemini’s Business Analytics
to generate practical insights and data analytics across multiple global practice network is a
root cause analysis. This platform businesses, units, and core unit within the Business
includes not only an advanced departments. Information Management (BIM)
audit and analysis tool, but also ƒƒ
Reduce working capital by 27% by global service line and operates
a robust and flexible reporting improving inventory turnover and in 25 locations across the world,
and presentation layer to enable reducing Days Sales Outstanding. drawing on a database of over 100
reporting of insights, and of the analytics client credentials and
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Reduce pricing errors and
outcomes that the CFO needs to analytical models. It provides high-
disputes with customers by 88%
monitor. function analytics-based solutions
and improve collection cycle time,
to all major industry sectors and
reducing Days Sales Outstanding
Our various services are offered business functions.
by 36 days.
separately so you can choose those
that are most relevant to you. If Capgemini has over 7,000
Our CFO Analytics
you are not certain where to start, consultants working in BIM across
capabilities
our team can carry out a pilot to the world. We work with all the
Capgemini’s dedicated Business
identify where the biggest returns leading big data and analytical
Process Outsourcing (BPO)
are available. technologies, and provide services
analytics center offers a range of
to support business analytics, from
analytics services as part of an
Benefits of Business high-level strategy to managed
augmented BPO service for Finance
Analytics for the CFO outsourced services. We recognize
and Accounting. Capgemini
Our analytics services have helped that analytics are specific to
has over 15,000 staff providing
CFOs to: industry sector and sub-sector, and
financial accounting services BPO
have experts and solutions across
services for more than 40 clients
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Identify wasteful spends and all of them.
including many global household
opportunities of cost reduction.
names.
This has allowed them to create a
robust pipeline of initiatives and
projects to reduce costs and
improve margins.
Our three-tier analytics solution
Capgemini’s analytics solution can handle huge volumes of data (typically 25m transactions for a single review). It
contains 20+ algorithms and uses imaging technology to speed up analysis.
Action
Insight Business Intelligence solution via analytics and reporting
Analysis
Data Warehouse to
Information consolidate and provide
structured data
Report
Data Collection of unstructured data from multiple sources
Record
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4. About Capgemini
With around 120,000 people in 40 countries, Capgemini is one of the world’s foremost providers
of consulting, technology and outsourcing services. The Group reported 2011 global revenues of
EUR 9.7 billion.
Together with its clients, Capgemini creates and delivers business and technology solutions that
fit their needs and drive the results they want. A deeply multicultural organization, Capgemini
has developed its own way of working, the Collaborative Business Experience™, and draws on
Rightshore®, its worldwide delivery model.
Rightshore® is a trademark belonging to Capgemini
More information about our services, offices and research is available at
www.capgemini.com
For further information contact us at bim@capgemini.com or visit www.capgemini.com/bim