1. GI Dynamics – Prophix story
Operating since: 2003
Head office: Lexington, Massachusetts
Annual revenue: $35 million
Number of employees: >100
G/L or ERP: Oracle
Company website:
Company background:
GI Dynamics, Inc. is the developer and marketer of EndoBarrier, a breakthrough device that represents an entirely new class of non-surgical, non-pharmaceutical therapy for the treatment of type 2 diabetes and/or obesity. Through the use of EndoBarrier therapy, GI Dynamics is poised to address the growing diabetes and obesity populations which have reached epidemic proportions and represent two of the largest healthcare markets globally.
Business problems that lead to evaluating CPM, adopting Prophix:
Pain points: reporting, planning, need for simplified global operations
Competition: Hyperion, Cognos
Why Prophix: Past experience, price point, scalability, and overall capability – OLAP
Rob Solomon – VP of Finance had used Prophix at a few other companies and acted as a brand ambassador for us taking over the demo for a solid twenty minutes while he explained the benefits and capability of Prophix. While there wasn’t ever any legitimate competition, GID did mention they were looking at Hyperion, and Cognos.

2. GI Dynamics – Prophix story
Benefits:
Reporting –
Variance reporting
Cash flow reporting
Balance sheet reporting
ODBC connection to their Oracle G/L
Financial Controller for financial consolidation
Industry-specific key business drivers evaluated:
Future plans:
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3. Supporting data: Life cycle Industry (choose all that apply)
☐ New implementation YES
Implementation date: Q1 2014
☐ 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
☐ Healthcare
☐ Utilities
☐ Education
☐ Architecture, engineering, and construction
☐ Life science YES
☐ Transportation and logistics
☐ Manufacturing
☐ High tech
☐ Media and entertainment
☐ Government
☐ Non-profit

4. Supporting data: Solutions Capabilities ☐ Budgeting YES
☐ Automation YES
☐ Forecasting YES
☐ Prophix Mobile
☐ Reporting YES
☐ Data integration YES
☐ Strategic planning
☐ Business modeling YES
☐ Financial consolidation YES
☐ 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
☐ Capital expenditures planning
☐ Reporting and analytics
(dashboards and scorecards)