How data automation helps Olive reduce costs & work smarter

In just six weeks, we uncovered £1.5 million for Olive, one of the UK’s leading Cloud Managed Service providers.

They went from endless reporting, low-value manual tasks, and months-late financial reconciliation to fast, automated processes. And a £1.5 million uplift in profit.

Struggling with data. Drowning in spreadsheets. Crippling overhead costs.

Olive was overwhelmed by their data. Highly paid financial directors were stuck matching records across spreadsheets for hours on end. They regularly waited months to be able to validate whether payments were correct. Insights lagged, trust in financial reporting was at an all-time low, and both time and money were being drained by repetitive, manual work.

The overhead was brutal. No automation skills, no technical expertise, and no real way forward. Frustration grew, but like many companies, Olive assumed this grind was just “normal.”

They weren’t chasing higher profits. They were desperate for better processes. A way to stop drowning in spreadsheets. To free people from doing the same tedious task over and over.

The N-Zyte standard: how we partnered with Olive

Olive chose N-Zyte because we could cut through the noise. Within 30 minutes, we had pinpointed the core issues. The fix was simple, fast, and cost-effective. A total no-brainer.

Full implementation took just six weeks. What takes months for traditional consultants, we solved in record speed. We don’t waste time in endless workshops. We come in, fix it, and get results.

“The team understood our business and the key challenges with our data framework. N-Zyte created a project-based roadmap to deliver some quick wins, paving the way for an expanded program of enduring benefits [and] self-sufficiency of repeatable analytics on a scale we hadn’t envisaged at the start.”
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— Brett Morris, CFO, Olive Communications

The key to fast and easy profit

We built a data platform that eliminated the need for Excel entirely. What used to take four weeks of manual analysis could now be delivered with a single click.

And it wasn’t just analysis. It was a full action log, telling the team exactly what to do and when. Not more data, but a certified, high-impact action plan.

The finance team no longer wastes time on low-value tasks. Instead, they focus on putting insights into play, turning data into profit. This was the strategic shift Olive had been waiting for.

Our playbook, step by step:

• Shadowed the finance team to map their current process and capture key business logic
  
• Built a data platform to ingest and transform all necessary data
  
• Automated the full reconciliation process (done with a click instead of weeks of work)
  
• Added new layers of analysis previously unavailable
  
• Generated an action log highlighting exactly where to focus (e.g. which suppliers to chase, mismatches to resolve)
  
• Handed the process back via a visual UI, so the finance team never had to touch raw data again
  
  

The result? Massive time savings and expensive resources freed up for higher-value work.

We keep it momentum-driven: test → adjust → scale.

If it works, value rises. Then we rinse and repeat. Every new process made more efficient, every cycle saving more time and delivering more cash.

The numbers tell the story:

• £1.5 million in hidden profit uncovered in just six weeks
  
• Huge cut in overhead costs
  
• CEO and financial directors under less pressure
  
• Finance teams focused on value, not admin
  
• Stress down. Trust up. Culture strengthened.
  
  

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