BigID gains time, trust, and strategic influence with Aleph
With Omar Asghar, Director of FP&A at BigID
BigID offers a unified data intelligence platform that helps enterprises discover, manage, and protect critical data across their environments. By combining AI-driven discovery with governance, security, and privacy controls, BigID enables organizations to reduce data risk, uncover dark data, and automate compliance.
Automation and AI is core to their product and clients’ success, but the same level of innovation was lacking with their FP&A workflows—until they found Aleph.
Challenges before Aleph:
- As BigID scaled, its lean FP&A team faced mounting pressure to do more with less.
- They had transitioned away from Mosaic and spent nearly a year relying solely on Google Sheets.
- Month-end and quarter-end cycles were consuming full days just to collect and massage data.
- Budget owners often had to wait weeks for updates, slowing down decision-making.
We were spending so much time pulling and cleaning data, and not enough time analyzing it or being true business partners.
The solution and results after Aleph:
Today, BigID relies on Aleph as its source of truth for financial reporting and planning:
- Automated financial statements: Instead of pulling reports from NetSuite manually, BigID now generates balance sheets, income statements, and cash flows with one click.
- Budget vs. actuals: Department leaders collaborate in Google Sheets powered by Aleph data, enabling instant variance analysis and more productive conversations.
- Headcount & recruiting visibility: By integrating HiBob and Greenhouse, BigID can reconcile headcount, track open roles, and align hiring plans with financial goals.
Favorite feature? Drill-down capabilities. It’s like pivot tables on steroids. Whether it’s answering an auditor’s question or a CFO’s, I can click into a number and know exactly what’s behind it. That used to take hours—now it takes seconds.
The Impact
Aleph transformed BigID’s FP&A team from reactive gatekeepers to strategic partners.
- Time saved: Budget vs. actuals reviews that once took hours are now done in minutes. Month-end reporting cycles are cut by days.
- Trust built: Stakeholders across the business now rely on a single source of truth, restoring confidence in finance’s numbers.
- Strategic influence: With more time and more accurate data, FP&A has a greater seat at the table.
To learn more about BigID, visit https://bigid.com/
The first two years, finance was seen as a gatekeeper. Now, with Aleph, we’re viewed as trusted partners who bring insights in real time. That’s priceless.
Favorite feature? Drill-down capabilities. It’s like pivot tables on steroids. Whether it’s answering an auditor’s question or a CFO’s, I can click into a number and know exactly what’s behind it. That used to take hours—now it takes seconds.
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