Case StudyMonterey Bay Aquarium
The Monterey Bay Aquarium (MBA) is unique in its setting and is the nation's finest aquarium. It offers exciting exhibits, new animals, free education programs (reaching 80,000 annually), scientific research, family activities, advocacy in sustainable fishing and ocean policy to support its mission to inspire conservation of the oceans. MBA is a not-for-profit corporation, founded in 1978.
After implementing Great Plains in 1997, MBA realized that they could leverage this investment to achieve greater efficiencies in business processes and integration between various business systems. Frank, Rimerman Consulting assisted MBA in achieving this by supplementing Great Plains with two major customizations – a custom import screen that facilitates the transfer of business activity from their external systems into Great Plains and a custom, security-driven budget import solution that allows for parts of the chart of accounts to be assigned to specific users to create their own budgets. Frank, Rimerman Consulting further refined the system with a specialized import for payroll allocations and a very flexible reporting tool to allow MBA to report on the complexity of their budgeting environment.
"By utilizing the Frank, Rimerman Consulting customizations to our already highly effective Dynamics system, the Monterey Bay Aquarium is now able to budget departmentally at the detailed line item level as well as post all transactions from our Development, Membership and Ticketing systems on a daily basis enabling staff to see up-to-date actual versus budget figures" says Adam Weiland, IT Director for the Aquarium. For more information about Monterey Bay Aquarium please visit Monterey Bay Aquarium.
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