The systems behind confident business decisions.
Grandview turns enterprise data into decisions you can trust — combining deep financial-planning expertise with the engineering power to connect, modernize, and scale it.
Deep finance expertise. Connected data. More value from your existing tools.
Since 2017, Grandview has combined IBM Planning Analytics, Cognos, and FP&A expertise with data integration and engineering. As an IBM Gold Partner, we help you decide what to extend, modernize, or replace — starting with the business outcome.
ENTERPRISE PAIN POINTS.
REAL PROBLEMS. REAL IMPACT.
Disconnected systems, undocumented models, and data silos leave even well-invested organizations information-starved. We diagnose the business problem before prescribing a platform change.
When only one person understands the planning model, forecasts and the close depend on them. Document the rules and dependencies before extending or modernizing it.
Use the Cognos/Planning Analytics Documenter to make model logic visible and plan agreed validation checks.
Conflicting reports and manual reconciliations consume time while existing tools deliver less value than expected. Assess what to retain, connect, or retire.
Build the business case from your actual costs, reporting needs, and the technology you already own.
Disconnected ERPs and delayed extracts leave teams working from different operational pictures. Map the data flows needed for a shared view of the business.
Connect source systems, agree data freshness requirements, and assess the impact on daily operations.
AI cannot resolve unclear definitions or unreliable source data. Establish ownership, approved inputs, and review criteria before using AI to support business decisions.
Trace inputs, test outputs, and define when human review is required.
Your business questions.
Practical ways to move forward.
Explore application scenarios for planning, reporting, and connected data. Each starts with a business question and a clear way to assess progress.
Define trusted inputs, evaluation checks, and human oversight before extending AI into business workflows.
Build a trusted data foundation for AI-assisted decisions.
Identify where AI could help your team and define how the usefulness of its answers will be assessed.
Map the sources, definitions, and access rules needed to ground AI outputs in your organization’s information.
Test relevant scenarios, record exceptions, and define when a person must review an answer.
Agree who manages the data, reviews model changes, and approves use in business workflows.
Before we change the platform, we need to agree what the numbers must prove — and who is accountable for signing them off.
Keep the core. Build what comes next.
Keep the systems that work. Connect planning, reporting, and operational data so leaders can answer business questions without defaulting to a full platform replacement.
Mission-Critical Core Systems
Decades of battle-tested business logic, ledger transactions, and multi-cube rule models that run the enterprise.
Connected Data & Validation
Log-based change capture, calculation comparison, and semantic mapping between existing systems and modern platforms.
Modern Consumption & Lakehouse
A shared view of performance, self-service reporting, and governed data access for finance and operational decisions.
One business case. Every stakeholder aligned.
Align Finance, Technology, and Operations around the outcomes that matter in your most critical workflows.
Connect claims, reserves, and risk.
For actuarial, risk, and claims teams seeking a clearer view of reserve movements. Connect claims data and model assumptions, then assess the integration approach your core systems can support.
Chief Actuary
- Traceable reserve calculations: Reconcile actuarial models with the underlying claims data.
- Visible assumptions: Compare scenarios and explain reserve movements.
- Agreed data freshness: Set update requirements around actuarial decisions.
VP Claims Operations
- Connected claims workflows: Bring operational data together across source systems.
- Reviewed system impact: Assess capture methods and workloads before implementation.
- Clear exception ownership: Give teams a shared view of issues and next actions.
Chief Risk Officer
- Documented lineage: Map data from source transactions to reporting outputs.
- Reviewable controls: Agree checks, access permissions, and sign-off responsibilities.
- Governed AI use: Define approved data, evaluation criteria, and human oversight.
Protect the close. Unlock the model.
Connect planning, budgeting, and reporting into one trusted process. Extend the models you already run — including clinical-trial planning for growing life sciences teams.
CFO & VP Finance
- Office of Finance Accelerator: Start from a planning, budgeting, and reporting foundation.
- Better investment decisions: Compare the cost of extending, modernizing, or replacing existing tools.
- One view of performance: Connect forecasts and management reporting across the business.
CIO & Finance Transformation
- One delivery team: Connect financial-planning advisory with integration and engineering.
- Evidence before commitment: Assess dependencies, platform risk, and the business case.
- Visible progress: Use pre-built accelerators and review results at agreed milestones.
FP&A Leader & Controller
- Explain the model: Use the Cognos/Planning Analytics Documenter to make rules and dependencies visible.
- Plan for change: Build integrated scenarios, including clinical-trial planning with the Biotech Planning Accelerator.
- Trace the numbers: Connect source data, reconciliation checks, and close responsibilities.
Senior expertise.
Accountable from strategy through delivery.
Grandview is a U.S.-based consulting firm bringing financial planning, analytics, integration, and engineering together. The people who shape the strategy stay connected through solution design, implementation, and ongoing improvement.
Experienced specialists stay close to the work from discovery through implementation.
Work directly with the people responsible for your planning models, integrations, and outcomes.
Set a practical rhythm for reviews, decisions, progress updates, and escalation.
Define access, documentation, decisions, and ownership as part of the engagement.
Prove the value. Then scale with confidence.
Built for finance, IT, and data leaders at $100M–$2B+ organizations. Start with a scoped diagnostic, then advance through agreed milestones with clear deliverables and a decision at every stage.
Diagnostic Sprint
Start with the business question. Assess models, data flows, and existing investments, then agree priorities and an evidence-based plan.
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Current-State & Risk Assessment Map critical models, reporting dependencies, and the gaps affecting decisions.
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Investment & Value Assessment Compare total cost of ownership and the value of extending existing tools.
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Scoped Delivery Roadmap Agree deliverables, acceptance criteria, timing, and commercial terms.
Delivery & Validation
Your advisory and engineering team builds the agreed solution, uses relevant accelerators, and reviews results with business and technical owners.
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Model & Reporting Validation Compare agreed calculations and reports against a shared reference dataset.
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Connected Data & Workflows Connect the source systems needed for trusted planning and reporting.
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Reviewed Release Plan Agree release checks, operational readiness, and a rollback path.
Managed Takeover & Scale
Extend the platform as business needs change, with agreed support, performance reviews, and documented ownership of models and data flows.
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Agreed Support & Service Levels Define coverage, response expectations, and support for critical reporting periods.
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Continuous Performance Optimization Review performance, model design, and changing business requirements.
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Knowledge & Code Transfer Documented models, source code, and operational runbooks handed over to your team.
BRING YOUR PLANNING CHALLENGE
Tell us what’s slowing your team down or what you want to achieve. GrandView brings finance, data and technology expertise to help you work through the options.
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