I have worked with Neubrain for over 2 years. As the Deputy of the Personnel & Training Division responsible for building and executing the Air Force’s $25B annual Military Personnel budget, I have been intricately involved with Neubrain’s efforts to completely redesign our budgetary processes. To say I have been pleased with our association would be an understatement.

Neubrain’s technical expertise in applying COGNOS tools to our budget formulation has been superlative. Not only were they able to build a model that captured complex existing estimating methodologies, they also incorporated enough flexibility to accommodate no-notice changes to formatting and presentation requirements by the Office of the Secretary of Defense (OSD) and the Office of Management and Budget (OMB). Further development of “what if” capabilities have allowed us to use the same data sources for budgeting as we do for answering the gamut of senior leader questions to provide top-notch decision support.

However, perhaps even more valuable than their technical skills has been their advice and vision on how to change existing processes to improve the precision of our budgetary data. This led to the transformation of a formulation model into a truly comprehensive financial management system that incorporates programming tasks and execution analysis, saving hundreds of man-hours and improving consistency throughout our products.