Case Study: Apollo Therapeutics goes live on Planful in under 2 months
Key results
The challenge
Apollo Therapeutics manages more than 20 research programs with up to 600 activities in play at once, but its lean finance team relied on Excel workbooks for consolidations and forecasting. Modeling scenarios and cost profiles in spreadsheets was considered too risky as the company scaled.
The solution
Apollo chose Planful for multicurrency close and consolidation and worked with Planful partner Verostone to go live in under two months, later expanding into operating expense, workforce, and dynamic planning.
“What used to take a couple of hours in Excel is now just a quick refresh in Planful.”
GCGary CollinsVP of Finance, Apollo Therapeutics
The results, in context
Monthly report refreshes that once took a couple of hours in Excel now run in seconds, and Apollo moved from quarterly to monthly reforecasting with minimal additional headcount. Planful supports self-serve reporting for 20-plus department heads and program leads and a 12x increase in headcount through forward-looking workforce planning.