1. Allstream – Prophix story
Operating since: 1980
Head office: Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Annual revenue: > $1.5 billion
Number of employees: 6,000
G/L or ERP: SAP
Company website:
Company background:
Allstream Inc. provides communication solutions for midsized and enterprise businesses, and the public sector in the United States and Canada. The company offers various solutions, including security and risk management, Internet protocol, contact centre, collaboration, digital ink, public sector, radio frequency identification, and storage solutions.
Business problems that lead to evaluating CPM, adopting Prophix:
Allstream runs IBM Cognos for financial consolidation and SAP as their ERP.
They needed full financial reporting– preferably automated.
They had many complex formulas from their work with Excel and Cognos.
They relied on Excel spreadsheets to produce their revenue forecasts and plans.
This involved manual work across many files.
They selected Prophix because we will provide them with the capability to automate the manual and repetitive processes, accommodate the increasing level of complexity in both data and analytics, improve accuracy and deliver consistent reports.

2. Supporting data: Their Prophix solution:
Loading flat files into Prophix from Excel (this was more cost effective).
Budgeting
Capital Expenditures (CapEx) planning
Personnel planning
Revenue planning
Sales planning
Currency conversion, which they plan to use down the line. Right now their consolidation works in Cognos
Per Phil Gravel on 6/18/2014:
Prophix has provided a flexible and centralized reporting and analytical tool to guide decision making and analysis on financial performance. Specifically, the solution includes:
4 centralized revenue models to streamline the budget process
Automatic data integration without requiring human intervention to manipulate additional spreadsheets or data downloads
A financial model which allows them to create and maintain a 5 year rolling forecast
Future plans:
Allocations (?) – cash flow contributions by department
Potentially dashboards and KPIs

3. Supporting data: Life cycle Industry (choose all that apply)
☐ New implementation YES
Implementation date: Q4 2013
☐ Preexisting customer
Original implementation date: ________________
☐ Existing customer, upgrading
Industry (choose all that apply)
☐ Agriculture, forestry, and fishing
☐ Professional services
☐ Financial services
☐ Retail
☐ Wholesale and distribution
☐ Telecommunications YES
☐ Healthcare
☐ Utilities
☐ Education
☐ Architecture, engineering, and construction
☐ Life science
☐ Transportation and logistics
☐ Manufacturing
☐ High tech
☐ Media and entertainment
☐ Government
☐ Non-profit

4. Supporting data: Solutions Capabilities ☐ Budgeting YES
☐ Automation YES
☐ Forecasting (planned)
☐ Prophix Mobile
☐ Reporting YES
☐ Data integration YES
☐ Strategic planning
☐ Business modeling YES
☐ Financial consolidation
☐ Microsoft platform integration
☐ Analysis YES
☐ Role-based security YES
☐ Profitability analysis
☐ Collaboration YES
☐ Personnel planning YES
☐ Flexible deployment
☐ Project planning
☐ Ad hoc reporting and visualization YES
☐ Revenue planning YES
☐ Capital expenditures planning YES
☐ Reporting and analytics (planned)
(dashboards and scorecards)