For those currently watching the ICC Cricket World Cup 2015 across Australia and New Zealand, you might be interested to know that the organising committee is using SAP Business One to run financial management for the tournament.
As a company founded three years ago, the ICC Cricket World Cup 2015 organising committee needed an application that was simple, quick to implement, cost-efficient and would help it scale up quickly to deliver a tournament with expected attendance of 1 million fans and more than 1 billion followers globally.
Luke Spano, financial controller, ICC Cricket World Cup 2015, said, “When we started to look for a system, they key things for us were that it had to be dynamic and flexible, and have the ability to report across different budget levels, across three different currencies – Australian, New Zealand and US dollars.”
Despite having a complex charter of accounts across event and host budgets, SAP Business One was implemented in just over six and a half weeks.
Accessing all data from one location has given the organising committee much-needed flexibility.
“Being able to conduct all of our reporting needs, such as daily ticketing reports, from any location is not only critical but adds real business value to the entire organisation,” Spano said.
“As we got closer to the tournament we had to make decisions instantly. And now we are in the midst of it, we can’t afford to wait before we act. Having real-time data and insight is empowering all of our business groups to make the accurate and immediate decisions that are crucial to the success of the ICC Cricket World Cup.”
