Missoula’s Secret to Faster Management Reporting "It was a very time-consuming process of extracting all of our information out of our ERP into spreadsheets," Scott said. "We'd spend a great deal of time manipulating the spreadsheets just to make it consumable. Every time we'd have to update or change our data, we'd have to go through that process all over again. It was a lot of waste and a lot of version control issues. We never knew which one was the most current or correct version." Scott also knew the city might switch ERPs at some point, so any financial reporting solution needed to be flexible enough for the future. "When we started looking at Workiva, one of the biggest draws was being able to connect to any kind of data source to pull the information in," Scott said. "

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