Before Board, there was Excel. Excel, every controller's favorite tool,

manually compiled, with a very high risk of errors

and a very high risk of formula errors.

So it had to change.

In fact, the team was mainly occupied

for days and weeks gathering data and processing it in

Excel, and we never really got around to the actual work

of controlling.

The Diersch & Schröder Group has three segments: Energy,

Chemicals, and Young Business.

And all the companies use different underlying systems.

We work with Business Central, an old AS400,

Navision, and SAP.

Now we need to bring these systems together and create standardized reporting

so that we can compare performance across the group.

We chose Board because all the other solutions were more

finance-focused, and we knew we didn't just want to analyze

financial KPIs, but also other figures in the future,

or rather, other data. So Board was the best solution for us.

With the data integration, we can access the data faster and

analyze it faster. We're already working with the [Board] AI Agents,

or rather, testing them,

and we're hoping to gain further efficiencies because we won't have to

spend time analyzing everything manually first. Instead,

the agent can tell us where there's an issue, and we can immediately

drill into it. So it really saves time.

Management is currently working with Board, and they're very pleased

that the KPIs are available at any time and that they can access them

whenever they want and simply know where things stand.

I believe the future of the DS Group is absolutely data-driven,

and Board is the tool that will take us there.