IBM Cognos provides single view of merged group’s finances When Stonegate Pub Company acquired the Yates’ and Slug and Lettuce brands from our long-standing client, Town and City, change++ were asked to combine data from Stonegate’s existing Coda finance database with Town and City’s finance data to give a single view of company performance. Managing data integration when mergers and acquisitions take place can be a major challenge as businesses often use different account headings and financial calendars and data has to be realigned to match the enlarged group’s structures. Usually the key requirement is to facilitate finance reporting across the business but sales (EPoS) data can also be restructured to suit new reporting requirements. change++ had worked with Town and City on a previous

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