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A comprehensive budget management system is the core of internal financial management control for enterprises. The gaming industry is capital-intensive, characterized by high investment, high profit, and high risk. Consequently, gaming companies deal with vast amounts of operational data. Although China's gaming industry has achieved significant benefits, it has yet to form a scientific and complete comprehensive budget management system. Most gaming companies still face pain points such as inadequate management systems, incoherent execution, and untimely data synchronization. In this context, gaming companies urgently need to implement modern comprehensive budget management to ensure effective control of company funds, thereby increasing profits and achieving strategic goals.
Company Z is a pioneering gaming company that continuously drives industry transformation with rich experience, keen market insight, and technical strength. Initially, the client manually processed management reports, calculating profit contribution sources from different angles to understand project dynamics and cost structures, laying a data foundation for management decisions. However, this offline method involved heavy workload, was prone to human error, and lacked data linkage between different reports. Unlike offline forms, Intcube, based on multi-dimensional database technology, uses its unique data processing methods to store data in intersecting dimensional combinations, transforming flat data into multi-dimensional data, thereby providing Company Z with more precise management analysis capabilities.
▌ Challenges and Strategic Goals of the Gaming Company's Comprehensive Budget Project
Similar to Company Z, most gaming companies in the market are currently impacted by massive data volumes. The internet industry environment in which gaming companies operate contains many uncertainties, and the original budget management models are relatively outdated, unable to secure a competitive edge in business competition. Additionally, products and operations are highly influenced by market conditions, making a robust data processing and budget management system crucial for Company Z's steady development. Therefore, Intcube utilizes digital automation to generate reports, automatically fetching values from multiple systems. This preserves the original report data items while reducing manual calculations and ensuring better data querying and comparability.
Large Volume of Data Calculations and Processing
Company Z's management report data sources are vast and complex, involving various allocation calculations. Previously, data collection relied heavily on manual judgment, leading to inconsistent information maintenance, poor traceability, and errors, which hindered healthy enterprise development. The comprehensive budget management system designed by Intcube displays the entire calculation process in a reasonable and effective manner, establishes information linkages, and simplifies data maintenance difficulty.
Need for a Flexible and Variable Report Structure
To adapt to diverse business changes, meet the requirement for manageable data querying, and ensure applicability after organizational structure changes, the management reporting system needs a clear data processing flow, a customizable dimensional architecture, and rapid response to indicator calculation demands, laying a management foundation for business development. The flexibly variable report structure designed manages and processes data from multiple dimensions and perspectives, satisfying the enterprise's diverse management needs.
Shortening the Management Report Preparation Period
Offline preparation involved repeated communication and inconsistencies across multiple data sources, leading to rework, calculation errors, and difficulty in scaling business operations. Based on multi-dimensional database technology, Intcube unified the budget compilation and reporting platform, achieving data sharing and interaction, ensuring data accuracy. Simultaneously, the system catalyzes the management report preparation process, accelerating calculations through informatization means, providing support for business development.
Diverse Data Sources and High Degree of Work Overlap
Data is sourced from diverse origins, involving BI, NC, timesheet systems, etc., with calculated amounts flowing through multiple management report modules. Offline work had high coordination difficulty and high time costs for error correction. According to Company Z's business characteristics, the Intcube EPM system calculates based on specified rule sequences, separates data collection from calculation, reduces data organization difficulty, and thereby lowers error costs.
▌ Establishing an Integrated Comprehensive Budget Management Platform
The gaming industry faces immense competition. Forward-looking management goals help enterprises adapt to future economic conditions, achieve dynamic forecasting, and thus mitigate risks. As a top domestic gaming company, Company Z partnered with Intcube to strengthen its budget management system, refine budget compilation, and reduce execution difficulty. During system construction, Company Z's management reporting system, based on dimensional cross-combinations, stores data sources, calculates management report data, and compresses calculation volume based on attribute dimensions within members, enhancing calculation efficiency, thereby achieving dynamic management and forecasting.
Flexible Report Display and Ad-hoc Analysis
For the same data source, displaying it under different aliases in different reports can reduce the difficulty of member creation and data calculations. This effectively simplifies form maintenance. Additionally, the system can change display names arbitrarily based on front-end business needs, achieving separation between data storage and presentation. Beyond custom-formatted forms, the system supports custom query formats. Front-end business personnel can arbitrarily change the data content they need to query and alter the query form structure. For increasingly refined data management needs, business personnel can obtain the required forms without repetitive labor.
Reducing Maintenance Difficulty and Enhancing Data Processing Capability
During system design, the main tasks of configuration are set as variables within the system. Unlike traditional management report compilation rules, background formula compilation does not use a stacked calculation structure but rather a variable-call-based calculation logic. The execution plan set is designed to execute formulas in segments, ensuring correct sequence. If a problem occurs individually, it does not require full re-execution. Furthermore, for execution plan sets or single calculation tasks, the system provides scheduled task functionality, reasonably arranging calculation times, significantly reducing operation and calculation time costs, and improving data processing efficiency.
Reducing Data Errors and Simplifying Data Entry
Beyond the above functions, the system also provides simple data validation forms. Validation rules can be added or modified in the background, performing simple screening on data provided by sources to quickly identify easily discoverable problems and reduce error rates. Validation rules offer various alert or prohibition functions such as preventing saves, highlighting colors, and prompt messages. The control scope can be expanded later during system use. For critical data, data blocks are locked. For specified dimensional intersection points, data entry is prohibited, reducing the chance of manual entry errors. Additionally, the system provides precise data filtering functionality, allowing custom definition of filter ranges for specific data within forms. Form links can be quickly established through custom configuration methods, setting jump paths, reducing data processing time.
▌ Comprehensive Budget Management System Facilitates the Digital Process for Gaming Companies
By establishing an integrated comprehensive budget management platform, Company Z achieved flexible reporting, significantly reduced data maintenance difficulty, enhanced data processing capability, simplified budget entry work, and thereby reduced data errors and workload. Intcube conducted a comprehensive analysis of Company Z's business, organized relevant personnel to map out business processes, formulated implementation strategies, established a scientific and reasonable design plan, and strengthened the operational awareness of company managers to achieve Company Z's strategic goals.
For gaming companies, the digital era has arrived, making data management and analysis a core task. In the overall macro-environment, gaming companies urgently need to improve their operational management capabilities to enhance their own interests. Establishing a comprehensive budget management system helps gaming companies strengthen fund management, increase profits, and is a necessary means for upgrading their operational management. With the rapid development and profound changes in the gaming industry, future competition will intensify. Establishing a scientific and complete comprehensive budget management system is essential for gaming companies to maintain a leading position in the market competition landscape. Based on the actual business processes, product characteristics, and management models of gaming companies, Intcube optimizes and adjusts to effectively utilize the management efficacy of comprehensive budgeting, aiding the digital transformation of gaming companies.
