TheGeorgia Tech Alumni Association serves and promotes the Institute and its alumni through programming and engagement that fosters lifelong relationships, philanthropic support, and goodwill.
The finance team was managing budgets across a patchwork of individual Excel spreadsheets, making the process time-consuming, error-prone, and difficult to scale.
Since moving to Martus, the organization has centralized its financial operations and given managers direct access to real-time data, eliminating the wait for reports and improving visibility across the board.
For Allison Hickman, VP of Administration at the Georgia Tech Alumni Association, budget season meant manual work. The finance team was budgeting entirely in spreadsheets, and coordinating that process across managers was largely on Allison's shoulders.
Beyond the time burden, the spreadsheet approach created visibility gaps. Managers had to wait for reports rather than being able to check on their budgets independently, which slowed down the organization's ability to stay current with its financial plan.
When evaluating options, Allison cited two factors that made Martus stand out: robustness and pricing. The platform offered the functionality the association needed without the cost or complexity of a larger enterprise system.
Martus replaced the association's disconnected spreadsheets with a centralized budgeting platform, giving every manager direct access to real-time financial data. Key elements of the solution included:
The most significant shift for the Georgia Tech Alumni Association has been in how managers engage with financial information. "I don't have to manually compile everything myself," she noted after making the switch to Martus.
Where managers once waited for reports, they can now monitor budgets and track performance on their own, in real time.
That change in access has kept the organization more current with its budgeting plan and brought greater clarity to financial decision-making at all levels of leadership.