Catalyst provides unparalleled insight into a portfolio company’s financial and operational inner workings sitting on top of your ERP or ERPs, and other data sources to provide reporting, analysis, planning, budgeting, and forecasting.
It eliminates time wasted on low-value tasks like aggregating and tidying data, giving your management team more time to focus on value creation.
Where Catalyst®
Can Help
- A cloud-based single source of truth
- Slice, dice & drill into unlimited amounts of data
- Industry-leading dynamic reporting tools
- Integrated budgeting, planning and forecasting
- Game-changing profitability analysis tools
- Unite multiple ERPs/data sources
- Save yourself from an ERP change
- Unlimited user licenses & security preferences
Catalyst® Features
Reporting
Shave 60–80% off your month-end reporting tasks. Easily pull together PE-friendly financial reporting without multiple sources. Daily and weekly reports for sales and operations are done with just the push of a button.
Data Cubes + Analysis
Slice, dice, and drill down to the transaction level. Solve problems too big and too messy for Excel, such as understanding profitability or POS. Get answers to your most pressing questions at the speed of thought.
Planning + Forecasting
Plan and forecast from the top down or bottom up. Remove busywork from your planning process by consolidating projections and maintaining version control. Plan by dollars, SKUs, customers, or any other framework.
Dashboards + Visualizations
We’ve partnered with Microsoft to embed Catalyst with Power BI™. Transform static KPIs into digestible measures that drive results. Mobile-optimized dashboards can be viewed anywhere, on any device.
Data Lake
Go beyond the data warehouse. Analyze critical factors such as Big Data sources, POS, and syndicated data to see the bigger picture. Solve problems too big for Excel.
“The biggest asset of the Catalyst software, from my point of view, is our ability to understand the results.”
Steve Hentges | VP of Finance
Eliminated $18M in Unprofitable SKUs
“I could tell Catalyst was built by finance people.”
Eric Zamora | Vice President, FP&A
Trimmed 80% off Month-End Reporting Time
“We’ve become a much better operating company with the timeliness and accuracy of the information.”
Patrick O’Neill | CFO
Grew EBITDA 500 Basis Points in 3 Years
CASE STUDY
Chandler Industries Uses EBM Catalyst Software to Drive Impressive Revenue & Profitability Gains.
Client: Chandler Industries is a $70MM PE-owned precision machining company, assembled through a series of 5 acquisitions – each with different financial databases and structures.
Key Problems: With 5 different databases, consolidation and reporting activities were slow, laborious and offered questionable accuracy.
Solutions: Implemented Catalyst by EBM Software, consolidating all disparate databases into one view and structure. Used Catalyst’s reporting tools to cut reporting cycle time and eliminate errors, allowing more time for high-quality analysis.
Results:
- 66% DECREASE in reporting cycle time
- 1 SOURCE of truth for data
- 500 BASIS POINTS EBITDA growth in 3 years
- 60% SALES INCREASE from 2016-2019
CASE STUDY
Newly Acquired Company Louisiana Fish Fry Utilizes Catalyst to Automate Reporting & Consolidate Disparate Systems Into one Source of Truth.
Client: Louisiana Fish Fry is a food manufacturer and supplier that sells Cajun-influenced products all over the country. In 2018, the company was acquired by private equity firm Peak Rock Capital.
Key Problems: Upon acquisition, Louisiana Fish Fry’s accounting system was too disorganized to keep up. CFO Gary Galeziewkski needed to consolidate multiple systems quickly and without slowing down business.
Solutions: Catalyst’s consultants helped Gary’s team implement Catalyst on their pressing schedule, consolidating and memorializing multiple legacy accounting packages to give the team the complete, easy, and immediate access to data they needed.
Results:
- 90 DAY Implementation
- 1 SOURCE of truth for data
- BUDGETING & FORECASTING by SKU, category & customer
