Services

• advisory services
  • Overview

    Overview

    Whether Fortune 500 or mid-size, emerging or maturing, our team has witnessed what finance and IT organizations do well and where they can improve compared to their peers and competitors. 

    Our approach utilizes our unique industry benchmarks and maturity models, along with completely understanding your unique business challenges to help:

    • Assess existing business processes and evaluate where technology can best be utilized to optimize and streamline these processes
    • Evaluate the change management impact of process re-engineering, including preparation of technology implementation
    • Develop a detailed enterprise technology roadmaps including current state, future state analysis 
    • Understand requirements and translate them into the proper design documents to produce an accurate scope (RFP or RFI) for a project)

    In addition, our roadmaps include:

    • Maturity model progress plans
    • Technical hardware blueprints
    • Phased technology implementation plans
    • Change management and adoption plans
    • Risk factors and mitigation plans

  • Assessments

    Assessments

    Huron provides existing enterprise technology customers with the opportunity for an independent third party to review and assess their current solutions.

    This comprehensive 2-day session consists of discussions guided by a pre-defined checklist of key inspection points associated with best practices for each application. The discussion focuses on collecting feedback from your unique organization and stakeholders that helps with identifying the root cause of any issues within your applications. Our team will then meet with you to discuss the overall health status of your applications, findings that identify specific issues impacting the health of an application and recommendations categorized into a roadmap of short term and longer term enhancements.

  • Solution Adoption

    Solution Adoption

    A new technology solution can add measurable value to your organization. To ensure adoption and ultimate success, there are a few things to keep in mind before you begin, including stakeholder engagement, organizational readiness and training. Huron partners with our clients to assess their current state and provide tangible recommendations for moving forward to ensure successful solution adoption. Learn more.

• analytics & reporting
  • Overview

    Overview

    We help organizations continuously measure, plan, and act through the use of reporting and analysis tools. Huron provides a cutting edge information strategy approach that can allow your organization to realize the value of your financial and operational technology investments. Let us help you further leverage your investments by integrating your on-premise data, with the ever-increasing amount of cloud, social media and unstructured content, to maximize both customer satisfaction and profitability.

    We understand the reporting requirements of your organization today, and can provide solutions that span:

    • Accounting and financial insights
    • Departmental analysis and a view into the effectiveness of an organization's operations
    • Variance reporting across the enterprise
    • Identifying issues or opportunities and taking action with big data, business intelligence and advanced predictive analytics

     

• Customer Relationship Management (CRM)
  • Overview

    Overview

    Your customer expects a first-class experience with every touch point of your business. Huron helps clients across industries connect to their customers in entirely new ways by developing custom solutions that extend Salesforce’s value enterprise-wide. Our deep industry, business process, and technology expertise ensures successful Salesforce implementations that drive real business value.

  • salesforce solutions, tailored to your business

    salesforce solutions, tailored to your business

    Huron supports the world’s leading customer success platform to help businesses grow into more efficient, effective and profitable organizations. Working in close partnership with our clients, we help uncover the right Salesforce solution to drive sustainable and measurable results — from customer relationship management (CRM) strategy and advisory services, to complex Salesforce implementations and analytics.

    Our expertise spans all Salesforce clouds — Sales, Service, App, Community, Marketing, Analytics, and IoT — as well as the Health Cloud and Higher Education Data Architecture industry-specific modules. This combination enables us to create tailored solutions that address our clients’ most pressing challenges.

    Every member of our large and growing Salesforce delivery organization has deep platform implementation experience and certifications. But what sets us apart is our highly specialized industry expertise in creating solutions for healthcare, life sciences, higher education and commercial industries. 

    Learn more about our Salesforce services

• enterprise performance management
  • Overview

    Overview

    Huron specializes in partnering with our clients to deliver solutions that support the end-to-end enterprise performance management process, whether in the cloud or on-premise. With decades of solution delivery experience, we are able to offer our clients precise guidance based on their unique needs and requirements and deliver solutions that enable the finance organization to be successful at managing the business. From financial close, planning and forecasting, to risk and regulatory reporting, Huron’s strong finance and technical expertise with Oracle’s Enterprise Performance Management (EPM) and Oracle Financial Services Analytical Application (OFSAA) software solutions enable us to deliver meaningful change and sustainable results for our clients.

  • Budgeting Planning and Forecasting

    Budgeting Planning and Forecasting

    Business planners need relevant, up-to-date and accurate data from various systems and implement (or redesign) solutions so that they can plan or forecast effectively and efficiently while adapting to changes in a scalable way.

    Our team specializes in helping organizations understand, design and implement customized EPM solutions. We help organizations understand how to balance functionality and complexity while avoiding usability compromises for the business planning process. We deliver custom (driver-based and non-driver based) business planning solution components that are effective, efficient, scalable, adaptable and:

    • Ensure accuracy with a centralized, single-data repository that validates forecasts
    • Answer complicated strategic questions with a sophisticated analytical engine and optional drill-through technology
    • Reduce the time to deliver planning and forecasting results through automated processes and quick-to-implement modules
    • Optimize resource allocation strategies with customized algorithms and industry best practices
    • Align operational and strategic planning and forecasting efforts by leveraging hierarchical flows and structured procedures
    • Boost enterprise-wide adoption and collaboration with an easy to use Excel-like interface built for use by finance
    • Prevent data breaches using the latest security technology and methods
    • Support advanced modeling and enable 'what-if' scenario analysis

  • Financial Close and Reporting

    Financial Close and Reporting

    Enterprise expansions, industry competition, and product/service re-engineering have made the financial consolidation and reporting efforts the single most important exercise a business will perform. To be competitive, you must find a faster way to close your books and report to both your internal and external stakeholders a clearer view of your business inside and out highlighting past, present and future performance. That is why, companies rely on our services for both our in-depth knowledge of today's hyper-competitive business landscape and the knowledge of the financial products available to support the key business decisions that drive quantifiable results and dramatically improve your company's close and reporting processes.

    From start to finish, we can help you optimize your solutions with flexible, transparent, and quick-to-implement solutions that include:

    • Integration of source system financial and non-financial information
    • Management of period-end close activities
    • Global accounting and standardized financial close solutions
    • Tax provision solutions
    • XBRL reporting offerings

  • Profitability and Cost Management

    Profitability and Cost Management

    Profitability and cost management has become a critical component in the framework of enterprise performance management for helping to maximize the bottom line. Realizing the potential profitability and true costs of your products and/or services is necessary to improve performance - and helps with strategic decisions making and resource allocation (both financial and people).

    Our solutions allow our clients to:

    • Align cost with revenue-based and key business drivers to achieve optimal profitability at each business segment (product, customer, channel, etc.)
    • Perform 'what-if' analysis to support decision-making during times of change, such as plant closure, reorganization, channel adjustments
    • Identify root causes and optimize flexibility and agility to maneuver within an ever complex market
    • Discover and analyze the true impact of Shared Services
    • Improve customer service and react to changing customer demands (price, product mix, packaging, capacity) with a clear understanding of the impact on profitability
    • Discover and comprehend the underlying drivers of the business, including creating drill-down capability

  • oracle enterprise applications and analytics

    oracle enterprise applications and analytics

    As an Oracle Platinum Partner with global delivery capabilities, Huron is a trusted provider of end-to-end Oracle ERP, EPM, and Business Analytics solutions. Whether it is cloud or on-premise, from blueprint through managed services, Huron is uniquely suited to help clients define their requirements, streamline business processes, and deliver the Oracle solutions needed to achieve measurable results.

    We specialize in architecting solutions and delivering world-class results leveraging the following Oracle technologies:

    • Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP): Oracle Cloud ERP Financials
    • Enterprise Performance Management (EPM): Oracle EPM Cloud (Oracle ARCS, Oracle FCCS, Oracle PBCS/EPBCS, Oracle PCMCS, Oracle EPRCS), Oracle EPM (Oracle HSF, Hyperion Planning, Oracle HFM, Oracle HTP, Oracle FCM/ARM, Oracle HPCM)
    • Data Integration: Oracle Data Integrator, Oracle FDMEE
    • Business Intelligence & Big Data Analytics: Oracle BICS, Oracle Essbase, OBIEE
    • Master Data Management: Oracle DRG, Oracle DRM
    • Oracle Financial Services Analytic Applications (OFSAA) 

  • Oracle Financial Services Analytical Applications: Strategic Offering for Financial Services Industry

    Oracle Financial Services Analytical Applications: Strategic Offering for Financial Services Industry

    The financial service industry continues to face challenges in both the marketplace and the regulatory arena. These environments dictate that financial service companies stay agile, competitive and one step ahead. To achieve this, companies are turning to Oracle Financial Services Analytical Application software to enable financial institutions to measure and meet risk-adjusted performance objectives, cultivate a risk management culture through transparency, lower the costs of compliance and regulation, and improve insight into customer behavior.

    Our team specializes in assisting financial services companies achieve maximum success, maximum return on investment, and maintain a reasonable total cost of ownership of the Oracle Financial Services Analytical Application software suite.

• enterprise resource planning
  • Overview

    Overview

    Leveraging today’s available Cloud technologies, Huron can help you realize your desire to simplify and modernize systems, provide scalability to support growth, reduce implementation and ongoing costs, and maximize your use of embedded social, analytic and mobile capabilities. Huron’s unique expertise in Oracle EPM and edge industry applications, along with our Oracle ERP Cloud capabilities, enables us to deliver differentiated seamless end-to-end business processes and applications. Our decades of experience translates into business advisory for our clients, working side by side from process design through system design, to actualize solutions that result in a competitive advantage.

  • oracle enterprise applications and analytics

    oracle enterprise applications and analytics

    As an Oracle Platinum Partner with global delivery capabilities, Huron is a trusted provider of end-to-end Oracle ERP, EPM, and Business Analytics solutions. Whether it is cloud or on-premise, from blueprint through managed services, Huron is uniquely suited to help clients define their requirements, streamline business processes, and deliver the Oracle solutions needed to achieve measurable results.

    We specialize in architecting solutions and delivering world-class results leveraging the following Oracle technologies:

    • Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP): Oracle Cloud ERP Financials
    • Enterprise Performance Management (EPM): Oracle EPM Cloud (Oracle ARCS, Oracle FCCS, Oracle PBCS/EPBCS, Oracle PCMCS, Oracle EPRCS), Oracle EPM (Oracle HSF, Hyperion Planning, Oracle HFM, Oracle HTP, Oracle FCM/ARM, Oracle HPCM)
    • Data Integration: Oracle Data Integrator, Oracle FDMEE
    • Business Intelligence & Big Data Analytics: Oracle BICS, Oracle Essbase, OBIEE
    • Master Data Management: Oracle DRG, Oracle DRM
    • Oracle Financial Services Analytic Applications (OFSAA) 

• managed services
  • Overview

    Overview

    True transformation requires a strong focus on adoption. Once the platform you select is implemented, we ensure successful deployment and adoption through our widely recognized organizational-readiness and mature managed services programs, assisting your organizations’ stakeholders to adopt the new technology, methodology and processes to increase business performance.

  • Ongoing Support

    Ongoing Support

    We strive to provide clients with complete autonomy and focus on knowledge transfer throughout every engagement so clients fully understand and control their applications. In some cases, however, clients desire ongoing support to complement their internal resources, whether in terms of personnel, software or even storage. Huron offers a range of services that can help you retain the expertise required to maintain, fix, modify, provide guidance on and administer your applications.

    In addition to ready-access to this critical skill-set we provide peace of mind for continuity. By having multiple resources vested in your solution we can provide you with the best ongoing support and advice needed as your business changes over time, resulting in a trusted partnership.

• Infrastructure and Integration
  • Overview

    Overview

    Without a solid architecture and design, the capability and reliability of your EPM, ERP, Business Intelligence and CRM systems can suffer. Huron's infrastructure services focus on the hardware and software aspect of your enterprise applications, and includes:

    • Hardware and software system design and architecture
    • Installation and configuration
    • Performance tuning
    • System review services (assessments and health checks)
    • Capacity planning services
    • System upgrade design and delivery services
    • System administration services (including on and off shore resources)
    • Delivery and integration services
    • Hosted solutions