Big Bus Tours is the world’s largest operator of open-top sightseeing tours, fuelling the spirit of adventure in 23 world-famous cities across four continents. Beginning its journey 28 years ago, with a fleet of only three buses, Big Bus Tours has swiftly expanded to a global fleet of hundreds of open-top buses, turning 6 million tourists into explorers, every year.

Big Bus Tours wanted to move to a true Cloud ERP and SAP Business ByDesign was the product of choice. As part of its cloud transformation strategy, they selected INSIGHT for Planning and Consolidation, powered by SAP Analytics Cloud.

Big Bus Tours wanted to move away from hosting their own servers, as it was taking too many resources and fundamentally it’s not what they do as a business. It was expensive and time- consuming to run it in-house because of the additional layer of security to protect data and sensitive information. Big Bus Tours also wanted to reconnect a consolidation system to their core finance system, as well as on-system budgeting and forecasting capabilities.

The Codestone INSIGHT for Planning & Consolidation package, powered by SAP Analytics Cloud has empowered Big Bus Tours with a single integrated view of its business performance. It allows them to make data-driven decisions more quickly and with greater confidence.

It delivers a comprehensive, out-of-the-box cloud solution that delivers Planning, Financial Consolidation, Reporting, Analytics and predictive capabilities whilst encompassing seamless integration with SAP Business ByDesign and SAP Business One (and also has the ability to load data from any ERP), It is deployed in 8-10 weeks and thus delivers a rapid ROI.

“INSIGHT for Planning and Consolidation has brought us instant value. The move to SAP Analytics Cloud has been both smooth and efficient. We’ve successfully completed our third month-end on the solution. The main benefit we’re seeing is the time savings. Month-end used to take an entire day worth of man time and now it takes 1-2 hours, which is excellent. We are saving a day a month and looking forward to exploiting the system to its full potential.”

“Our budget process in the past has been unwieldy, long, and spasmodic, whereby we sent out templates to people to execute bottom-up processes, which made it hard to version control. Having it on a system will mean we can keep it simple and much more efficient, as well as being easier to manage
as a process, which we’re really looking forward to.”

“We’re very fortunate to have had fantastic consultants from Codestone from day one. They’ve taken the time to understand how Big Bus Tours works, and have been a consistent part of our journey over that five-year period.”