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Hi, my name is Christine Harms, and I’m the controller of the Arizona Cardinals.
I handle all of the day-to-day accounting for
Accounts Payable, Accounts Receivable, all of the financial statement production, and reports for leadership.
We started out doing our account reconciliations.
We used Blackline, and in the recent years have realized that Blackline,
for our purposes, was a digital binder.
We still did everything in Excel – we uploaded those Excel document into Blackline.
Going through a reconciliation, every time I opened it,
I had to open a different Excel workbook and then go through my notes.
My notes were in email: I had one email open for one company, went through all their recs.
So that binder effect never really changed,
between flipping a piece of paper in an actual 3-inch binder
to opening and closing a document on the website and then still typing out my notes.
We currently use Adaptive Insights –
bought a tool for 4 years and never used it, because we couldn't make it work.
I was contacted by Vena.
In 3 weeks’ time, with 3 questions about the whole Excel workbook,
had a presentation that knocked it out of the ballpark.
“This is what we want” and then the demo was
“checkmark, checkmark, checkmark, checkmark - okay this does everything.”
We've been able to take Vena and completely take 2 platforms that we were using and replace it with one tool.
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