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Related Companies awarded the Productivity Breakthrough Award

Related Companies awarded the Productivity Breakthrough Award

At KyribaLive 2026, Related Companies was awarded the Productivity Breakthrough Award, recognizing a standout transformation in reporting efficiency, data quality, and decision support

Faced with a high-volume, complex treasury environment, Tara Levinstein set out to eliminate repetitive manual work and give time back to the team for strategic value analysis. With Kyriba’s Open Reports Studio, the team replaced time-consuming reporting workflows, manual spreadsheet stitching, and PDF-based data gathering with a more automated, scalable approach. The result was not just a faster reporting process, but a more strategic treasury function capable of delivering timely, accurate insights to senior leadership.

From manual reporting to repeatable automation

Before implementing Open Reports Studio, reports were pulled individually from Kyriba, exported into Excel, and manually combined with formulas into a single executive-ready view of banking relationships. After attending KyribaLive 2025 and seeing Open Reports Studio in action, the team quickly recognized an opportunity for immediate impact. They created a master spreadsheet with formulas, pivot tables, and reporting logic, then refreshed directly with updated data each quarter. This shift dramatically reduced report preparation time while improving consistency and usability.

Key achievements include:

  • Up to 95% faster quarterly reporting: what used to take 40 hours now completes in 2-5 hours.

  • Real-time monthly updates: manual construction account reports that took 2-3 hours now refresh in seconds (a 99%+ time reduction).

  • Near-zero error rate: eliminated PDF-based manual entry, drastically reducing data errors.

  • Continuous improvement: the team adds new reporting views and capabilities each quarter, compounding value over time.

The impact extends beyond speed. By centralizing data and building reporting from a single source of truth, the treasury team has created a more organized and durable reporting foundation across divisions, business units, and bank relationships.

Turning time savings into strategic value

The shift of using Open Reports studio to analyze cash, identify trends, and deliver insights to decision makers has already changed how treasury supports the business. Instead of focusing primarily on gathering and formatting information, the team is investing more time in strategic analysis, including forecasting, liquidity planning, and deeper examination of risk across the organization. Kyriba has become the central foundation for that work, helping the treasury team pull together account-level and deposit-level information.

As the reporting foundation continues to mature, the team is increasingly focused on the quality of output, making sure treasury data is structured, accurate, and usable for executives who need to make decisions quickly.

  • About

    Related Companies is a global real estate and lifestyle company defined by innovation and the most prominent privately-owned real estate firm in the United States. Formed over 50 years ago, Related is one of the largest private owners and preservationists of affordable housing in the U.S. and a fully integrated, highly diversified industry leader with experience in virtually every aspect of development, acquisition, management, finance, marketing, and sales. Headquartered in New York City, Related has offices and major developments in Boston, Chicago, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Texas, Washington, D.C., and London and boasts a team of approximately 4,000 professionals. The company’s portfolio of over $70 billion in assets owned or under development includes the 28-acre Hudson Yards neighborhood on Manhattan’s West Side, Deutsche Bank Center at Columbus Circle and The 78 in Chicago. Related was named to Fast Company Magazine’s list of the 50 Most Innovative Companies in the World. For more information about Related, please visit www.related.com.

  • Founded

    1972

  • Headquarters

    New York, NY

  • Industry

    Real Estate

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