Kepion

IHME, a global health research institute at the University of Washington, slashed proposal budget production time by 66% and tripled proposal volume without adding staff after implementing Kepion's cloud-based planning platform. The institute redirected over 3,000 hours from manual data collection to strategic research work, while automating budgeting and reporting to eliminate errors from legacy systems. Kepion's flexibility on the Microsoft stack enabled real-time people allocation, forecasting, and enterprise reporting for IHME's $90 million annual budget, supporting funding from NIH and the Gates Foundation.

Kepion eliminated 1,600 spreadsheet tabs for a 5,000-employee construction technology and services company, reducing data consolidation from weeks to seconds and freeing thousands of hours for strategic analysis. The implementation integrated with Sage ERP and enabled quarterly forecasting without increasing workload, while empowering hundreds of budget contributors to take ownership of their plans. The customer also uncovered redundant software subscriptions, significantly optimizing IT spending and establishing financial stewardship as a core value.

Kepion's cloud-based planning platform enabled a global CPG leader's Canadian business unit to achieve a 90% reduction in manual data entry and a 4x faster forecast update cycle, while improving demand planning accuracy by 40%. By replacing Excel and Oracle Demantra with Kepion, the company integrated trade promotion, display, and financial planning, allowing finance to complete monthly accruals in minutes instead of days. The implementation supports granular planning from brand to SKU and even allows forecasting for new SKUs before they are added to SAP.