DV8 CONSULTING PREPARED FOR ISG MIDDLE EAST FY26 FINANCE INTELLIGENCE

Your numbers already exist.
They just don't talk to each other.

Multiple reports. Multiple formats. A different version of the truth in every view by the time they reach the board. DV8 builds the connected layer that turns ISG's overhead, revenue, margin and PBT data into one live decision system — refreshed in real time, with no new software for your team to learn.

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Reports & views unified into one model
407m
AED FY26 revenue tracked live
<10s
To refresh, vs. days manually
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New tools for your team to learn
The cost of disconnected data

Every report tells part of the story. None of them tell it together.

This is a common problem across finance and project-driven businesses — and one that usually takes far too long to solve, because fixing it by hand means months of manual reconciliation before anyone trusts the output. Each report on its own is well built. The problem is the white space between them.

Manual reconciliation

OH, headcount, revenue and PBT live in separate sheets. Someone re-keys numbers every month to make them agree.

Stale by the time it's read

"YTD run rate" and "FY forecast" are snapshots — accurate the day they were built, already aging by the board meeting.

No single source of variance

Budget vs. actual vs. previous forecast — each report defines "variance" slightly differently. Confidence erodes.

Insight trapped in PDFs

Commentary explaining the "why" sits in a slide deck, disconnected from the live numbers it's describing.

Capability already paid for, sitting idle

Zoho, Microsoft 365 and Copilot can already do most of this. The gap isn't new software — it's that nobody's connected what ISG already owns.

Where ISG is headed — 2026 to 2028

Most teams or departments never see this table next to a live number — it lives in a strategy deck, reviewed once a quarter. Connected properly, it's not a reference document. It's the backdrop every report compares itself against, automatically, every day.

Metric
2026 Target
2027
2028
Forward Order Book
AED 450m
600m
600m
Revenue
AED 500m
750m
1,000m
Gross Margin %
12.25%
13.25%
14.25%
Overhead %
4.4%
4.4%
4.4%
PBT %
7.4%
8.4%
9.3%
Cash %
10%
10%
10%
Built on ISG's actual reporting structure

One model. Scrub through the year — everything moves together.

Below is a working preview of the connected layer DV8 builds — using ISG's own FY26 structure: overhead & headcount, secured revenue & margin, six-month PBT, the full-year revenue bridge, and a driver-level bridge most teams only build once a quarter. Drag the timeline below to see it for yourself. In the live build, no one drags anything — it updates from Zoho Analytics automatically, in real time, on whatever device someone opens it on.

ISG_FY26_CONNECTED_MODEL.LIVE
FY26 Timeline
Jan
Revenue (Secured, MTD)
0
Gross Margin %
0
PBT (Excl. NUI)
0
OH % of Revenue (FYF)
0
▲ Improved from 7.1% YTD

Secured Revenue vs. Pipeline — FY26 (AED m)

SECURED 343.49M LOCKED · PIPELINE 64M TO TARGET
Secured Pipeline Budget

OH as % of Revenue

YTD → FYF TRAJECTORY
This is the whole point

Drag the timeline above and watch the revenue bar, the margin line, and the KPI cards move together — because they're reading from one dataset, not four. Today, three different people maintain that consistency by hand, every single month. The connected model maintains it automatically, in real time, for every report ISG runs.

FY26 Timeline
Jan

6-Month PBT Forecast — Current vs. Previous vs. Budget (AED '000)

JAN–JUN FY26
Current Forecast Previous Forecast Budget

PBT Bridge — Budget to Actual, by Driver (AED '000)

MONTH: JAN — VARIANCE DECOMPOSED, NOT JUST REPORTED
Starting / Ending Positive driver Negative driver

This is the kind of view ISG isn't getting today: not just "PBT missed budget," but exactly which lever — revenue mix, margin compression, or overhead — moved it, for any month you select. Most finance teams build this once a quarter, by hand, in a deck. Here it updates with the timeline above.

From scattered reports to one system

How DV8 builds it — without disrupting how your team already works.

PHASE 1

Connect the sources

Every existing report maps back to its source data in Zoho Projects — no re-entry, no new process for your team.

Zoho Projects + Analytics
OutputOne model where "revenue" means the same thing everywhere.
PHASE 2

Automate the refresh

Power Automate and Power Query pull updates on a schedule — the model refreshes itself, no manual month-end push.

Power Automate + Power Query
OutputDashboards current within hours, not weeks.
PHASE 3

Layer in the intelligence

An AI agent on Azure OpenAI and Copilot Studio flags variance drivers and drafts board commentary in your voice.

Copilot Studio + Azure OpenAI
OutputThe "why" generated alongside the numbers.
PHASE 4

Hand over the keys

Fixed-price, phased, board-ready at every stage. Your team owns the model from day one — built to be run internally.

Fixed-price · No lock-in
OutputA finance function that runs the model, not the other way round.
The technology, in plain terms

Built on what ISG already runs. Ready for what's coming next.

DV8 isn't reselling one platform, and ISG's team isn't learning a new one. We connect the tools already paid for and already familiar — and leave the model ready to absorb the next acquisition without a rebuild.

Already in ISG's stack — connected first

Zoho Analytics
Zoho Projects
Microsoft 365
Excel / Power Query
Power Automate
Copilot
SharePoint

Built to absorb what's coming next

Procore
Azure OpenAI
Copilot Studio
Azure Document Intelligence
Future M&A data sources
Where this goes next

Finance is the starting point. Not the destination.

The connected model below starts with financial data because it's the fastest path to a working system the board can trust. The same architecture extends to every other team holding a piece of ISG's full picture.

Stop reconciling the past.
Start deciding on the present.

The board-ready transformation plan and the scoped engagement proposal are ready for review. No new software for your team to learn — the same reports, refreshed in real time instead of rebuilt by hand. The next step is a 30-minute working session to confirm scope against your FY26 calendar.