Harrison Street & fu3e.
Case Study
Global transparency: Providing best-in-class adaptive management reporting for leading investment management firm, Harrison Street. Harrison Street is a leading investment management firm exclusively focused on alternative real assets. Headquartered in Chicago with offices in London, Toronto, San Francisco, and Washington D.C., the firm has more than 220 employees and approximately $50 billion in assets under management. Since 2005, Harrison Street has managed over 853 investments and currently collaborates with over 115 partners across multiple sectors and regions. In a fast-paced and high-pressure environment, transparent reporting across a varied portfolio of assets is critical. With increasing opportunities to scale the business, Harrison Street had an opportunity to improve reporting across the business and standardise processes to further enable senior management to make informed, rapid, and accurate decisions. Streamlining a booming business As an industry leader, Harrison Street is keen to lead the way with optimised processes and reliable procedures. In an increasingly crowded industry, Harrison Street realised the opportunity to stream-
line reporting formats and approval processes in order to ensure it maintained its competitive edge. With Harrison Street’s team expanding into different locations, having a centralised data storage system was a must. Not only this, the company needed to ensure projects remained aligned so that management teams had clear visibility of progress, success, and results. Introducing fu3e. fu3e. is an adaptive reporting software solution designed by industry experts to manage Real Estate for a new age. fu3e. digitises the collaboration between existing management software to create ‘The Single Spine of Truth’ with incredible efficiency, offers solutions to monitor business risks, and improves process management with simple user interactions. Harrison Street approached fu3e. in 2021 to help develop the company into an agile business that could continue to scale with ease. After initial discussions between both businesses, the fu3e. team - led by Management Solutions Director, Karl Gleave - identified pain points and understood the company’s long-term need for this platform.