For finance reporting
Know which source feeds are late before the close begins.
Month-end depends on dozens of feeds arriving complete and on time. Tidewater tells the people who own them, and tells finance which parts of a report a late feed will make wrong.
The problem
The close starts with a guess.
On the first working day, someone opens the ledger report and wonders whether the payments feed is complete. Usually it is. When it is not, the discovery comes on day three, after numbers have been shared.
Finance teams do not need to understand pipelines. They need a short answer to one question: is this report safe to use right now, and if not, which part is wrong.
Data teams need the same answer from the other side, so they fix the right thing first.
The outcome
A calmer close, with fewer restated numbers.
Deadlines that match the calendar
Set a deadline for each feed before the close. Tidewater warns the owner while there is still time to fix it.
Reports that say when they are stale
The impact list names the reports and the sections that depend on a late or short feed.
A record for auditors
Every alert, acknowledgement and fix is kept with a time and a name, ready to show how a number was checked.
In practice
The close, with Tidewater.
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Day minus 3: check the feeds
The digest shows which feeds are on track and which are drifting toward their deadline.
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Day 1: a feed is short
The ledger feed arrives with 41 percent fewer rows. The data owner and the controller are both told.
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Day 1: scope the damage
The impact list shows which reports use the feed, so finance holds back only those.
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Day 2: close with confidence
The feed is reloaded, checks pass, and the history shows who did what and when.
Case study
The close used to start with a meeting to find out what was missing. Now the list is in front of us before the meeting is booked.
- 3 days to 1 Reporting delay at month end
- 84% Fewer stale dashboard escalations
- 12 Source feeds with an owner and a deadline
See your own pipelines in Tidewater
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