Challenge

From Excel to Insights

Mikkel faced a common startup issue: Excel-based models were limiting collaboration and creating manual workflows that couldn’t keep up with fast-paced changes and growing internal needs.

To provide comprehensive insights and support budget owners in making valuable business contributions, there was a need to unify fragmented data from financial, commercial, and production sources.

Spreadsheet limitations created inefficiencies, making it challenging to connect and centralise financial, commercial, and operative data in real-time. This hindered the ability to deliver a cohesive and accurate view of the business, impacting overall decision-making and strategic insights.

Solution

Full focus on strategic insights

Abacum became the all-in-one solution for Mikkel and his team, replacing Excel and manual reporting with a centralized, connected platform.

Abacum’s intuitive interface allowed for seamless integration of key financial data, commercial pipeline data, and operational metrics, all synchronized automatically.

The user-friendly onboarding and the top class support FP&A team made it possible for Creative Force to quickly and smoothly implement the tool without the complexities of traditional enterprise solutions.

This helped the team transition to a more collaborative and dynamic FP&A reporting process, focusing on delivering strategic insights rather than updating spreadsheets.

Before Abacum, we would spend an entire day updating Excel files. Now, it takes just a couple of hours, and we have live data at our fingertips.

Mikkel Lauridsen, Director of Strategic Finance at Creative Force

Result

A finance team that became a great partner

With Abacum, Creative Force transitioned from Excel-based limitations to a dynamic, connected FP&A environment, significantly enhancing efficiency, collaboration, and strategic value.

The implementation was smooth, and the impact was immediate, setting a strong foundation for future growth and advanced planning capabilities. As Mikkel said, “We’ve just begun, and I’m excited to see where we go next year.”