Success Story

“Relying on Excel to manage our financial processes handicapped us more than helped us. We needed a solution that gave us insight into how to fix problems and enabled us to manage our business in real-time.”

Marcus Kemblowski
COO
Apex Entertainment

Apex Entertainment, headquartered in Marlborough, Massachusetts, operates four family entertainment centers in the northeast U.S. including Virginia Beach, Syracuse, Albany and Marlborough. Apex offers attractions that are fun for all ages with activities such as Indoor Go Karts, Bowling, Laser Tag, Escape Rooms, Ropes Courses, Arcade and Redemption, Sports Simulators, Axe Throwing, Mini Golf, Bumper Cars, Virtual Reality and state-of-the-art event meeting space. Each location offers a full-service dining experience in The Pit Stop Tavern, with a menu that includes 80 gluten-free options as well as vegetarian options.

Challenge

Move away from spreadsheet-based budgeting, forecasting and reporting for more insight into the operations of the business.

Solution

Workday Adaptive Planning

Benefits

  • Managers can easily enter their numbers and are assured the calculations are correct
  • Forecasts by location and by type of activity
  • Reduce time and manual effort spent gathering data across multiple systems, tables and spreadsheets
  • Elegant, customized reports
  • Gain insights into revenue and operations based on accurate budgeting, forecasting and reporting