Ronald Lewis of Stein Mart and Dallas Crawford of IBM Business Partner QueBIT share how they leveraged IBM Planning Analytics to streamline financial reporting and improve budgeting. Ron’s role as VP of Financial Planning & Analysis is to understand operating results so the company can keep delivering on Stein Mart's promise for its customers to look and feel special while saving money. But given the data overload challenge faced by companies in the retail industry, Ron realized they were spending too much time gathering data instead of analyzing it. With IBM Planning Analytics, Ron is able to accelerate the FP&A process to help make better, more strategic decisions.