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INFOR systems is a leading provider of financial and business management solutions to organisations globally
Systems Union is on of the largest business software houses in the world with 25 offices worldwide spanning over five continents and a re-seller network covering 70 Countries.
Products within the SunSystems range are available in 30 languages with a customer base of 18000 sites over 190 Countries.
SunSystems is used by:
- 45 of the 50 largest Corporations in the world
- 75 of the FTSE 100
- One quarter of the Fortune 500
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SunSystems is a portfolio of integrated financial, management and business intelligence applications which help decision makers gain a broader understanding on their business and provide the ability to analyse operational detail.
Sun Financials Modules
Financials:
The Financials module delivers Ledger Accounting and Budget Control, while additional options for Corporate Allocations and Asset Register enhance the breadth of the offering. In addition, budgeting is brought under control with Budget Management.
Key Features:
The integrated ledger design simplifies control and ensures
- Single integrated ledger, combining analysis and functionality of nominal, sales and purchase ledgers, cash book and analytical/project ledger
- Flexible transaction and account analysis making a simple ledger set up
- Facility for transaction entry to the ledger
- Open periods to match posting and reporting requirements of the organization
- Support for multiple budgets
- Dual base-currency, providing full euro and GAAP support (SunSystems 5)
- Online archive for completed transactions (SunSystems 4)
- Sophisticated and flexible ledger inquiry function
- Automated payment terms functionality to calculate due dates, etc.
- Standard text for attachment to transaction types and data records
- Multi-currency asset register
- Flexible depreciation - up to 10 methods available per asset
- Asset notes system for tracking histories and life cycles
- Powerful reporting for increased control of fixed assets
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Corporate Allocations:
- Support for apportioned and fixed percentage allocations, fixed amounts and iterative charging
- Full support for inter-company processing
- High degree of flexibility to define allocation structures for each organization
- Posting options with tight controls
- comprehensive audit trail to trace all allocations in full
SunSystems eXFM
A surprisingly large number of companies continue to rely on non-integrated spreadsheet based systems for their planning, budgeting and forecasting activities. Prone to manual transcription errors and completely unauditable, this over reliance on spreadsheets is the primary cause for a disconnect between business strategy and operations.
The role of the finance department is rapidly changing. External stakeholders such as regulators and investors demand greater fiscal transparency and accountability. Internal stakeholders now require better reports and forecasts that provide greater insight into the drivers of business performance.
Finance professionals are on a hiding to nothing if they believe they can meet these increased demands by use of the humble spreadsheet. In our experience, many senior finance professional privately admit that their performance management processes are woefully inadequate, often citing that speed and accuracy with which they can model, re-plan and forecast business during the fiscal year.
All too often, the planning, budgeting and forecasting cycle relies upon the laborious and redundant manual entry of raw data into spreadsheets, followed by an unpredictable and seemingly endless exchange of files via email. Quite apart from the intrinsic risk of manual data errors, the process is also time consuming and un-auditable - especially at any point of data consolidation. Precise version control is abandoned in favour of stochastic file name creation and data changes are all but impossible to track from one version to another. Little wonder that the prospect of recasting plans and budgets in the light of current conditions is met with trepidation and rarely embarked upon as often as the business demands.
In summary, too much time is spent developing ‘the numbers’ for the planning, budgeting and forecasting cycle, at the expense of time that should be spent developing strategies to improve the current business condition.
Poor performance management will inevitably lead to poor business performance and under these conditions, the company is less likely to invest in better systems to manage the business, favouring instead to focus on removing extraneous cost and investment. The spiralling downturn is now set to continue.
Introducing Extended Financial Management
SunSystems Extended Financial Management has been designed to address these issues. Quicker and more accurate budgeting and forecasting cycles; extra time to concentrate on value-added finance functions and easy alignment of strategy to operations are now all possible with the SunSystems Extended Financial Management solution. Our unique combination of financial management; reporting and performance management applications will help you meet the ever-increasing demands placed on the finance function and ensure you deliver even greater value to the business.
Specifically the SunSystems eXFM solution delivers the following benefits:
Better budgeting and forecasting quality to improve plans. Rolling forecasts and therefore greater commitment to budgets is possible with SunSystems. Since the planning and operational systems are integrated, it is easy to compare budget, actual and trend information.
Superior risk management and appreciation of how internal and external factors affect business strategy. Complex business scenarios can now be modelled and the single integrated environment provides easy access to all necessary data and views e.g. by product, region, route to market etc.)
Greater commitment by operations to meet performance targets. Self-service access to performance data engenders a greater sense of commitment to business targets. All budget holders have analytic capabilities and feel in control of their respective business units.
Enable the finance department to spend more time on value-add activities. This is achieved by reducing the time spend on transaction processing and ad-hoc reporting in favour of a more alert and exception based reporting strategy.
Superior alignment between strategy, budget and operations. Integration of financial systems plays a crucial role in ensuring that strategies flow easily into operational systems and likewise, operational based actual data flows back into the planning environments.
Deeper appreciation of the factors that underpin business performance. Largely this is a by-product of the ability to drill down into the transaction system as opposed to being limited to aggregate data often employed by some fractured reporting system.
All of these benefits are provided at a total cost of ownership that companies will find remarkably compelling.
Order Fulfilment
Cost reduction and efficiency improvements are at the forefront of any organisation’s competitive strategy.
Substantial benefits and other savings can be realised through the adoption of best practice procurement used in conjunction with appropriate sourcing strategies. The SunSystems Procurement product meets a range of customer requirements from simple purchase order processing to fully automated, web-based ‘Procure to Pay’ processes.
Current offerings include:
SunSystems Procurement is a web-based, end-to-end procure-to-pay solution that supports centralised or de-centralised purchasing, covering purchase requisitions, orders, contracts, receipts and invoice processing and reconciliation.
SunSystems Purchase Management provides finance-based purchase invoicing, purchase management, budget and commitment control where integration with SunSystems Inventory is mandatory.
SunSystems Purchase Requisitioning – a zero footprint, web-based requisitioning module designed specifically to work with the SunSystems Purchase Management where integration with SunSystems Inventory is mandatory.
Sales Management
SunSystems 5 provides full sales order management through its Sales module, which delivers complete functionality for Sales Invoicing and Sales Management. In addition, there are options to deliver profiling specifically for customers, and Advanced Pricing. The solution ensures that organizations can streamline the sales, order and distribution operations, in order to deliver high levels of customer service.
SunSystems 4 provides full sales order management through its Sales Order Processing and Sales Invoicing modules. These modules deliver complete functionality for the entire process from quotation to invoice.
Purchase Management
SunSystems 5 delivers powerful facilities to manage and simplify the purchasing process. The Purchasing module provides components for Purchase Invoicing, Purchase Management and Budget & Commitment Control. In addition, there are options for Advanced Pricing and for Product Profiles, delivering profiling specifically for suppliers. The solution delivers the ability to analyze and report on a comprehensive database of supplier information, in order to improve buying power. The Purchasing module can also be used with SunSystems i2i Purchase Requisitioning, to provide a full procurement solution.
SunSystems 4 delivers powerful facilities to manage and simplify the purchasing process. The Purchase Order Processing and Purchase Invoice Register modules provide the ability to analyze and report on a comprehensive database of supplier information, in order to improve buying power. The Purchasing module can also be used with SunSystems i2i Purchase Requisitioning, to provide a full procurement solution.
Inventory Management
SunSystems 5 provides the capability to manage inventory, ensuring full visibility of product, intermediate and raw material items, while also delivering lot and batch control. The Inventory module comprises Inventory Management and Inventory Traceability, with additional options, Costing, delivering Landed Costing and Cost Analysis, and Product Profiles. The solution enables greater control over inventory levels, without forfeiting essential customer service levels.
SunSystems 4 provides the capability to manage inventory, ensuring full visibility of product, intermediate and raw material items. The solution enables greater control over inventory levels, without forfeiting essential customer service levels.
Vision – Business Intelligence
Vision Overview:
The Vision Suite is a unique suite of management reporting and Business Intelligence software providing reporting, analytical processing, scheduling and alerting. Vision's Analysis and Reporting functions are accessed within Microsoft Office applications such as Microsoft Excel and Microsoft Word, or via Vision’s own powerful desktop application.
Web browser users can interact directly with Vision queries and reports, live against the underlying data either via an HTML web page, or through a portal interface such as Microsoft SharePoint.
Vision Executive is a standalone desktop reporting and analytical processing tool. Delve further into the details of your report by applying Vision Executive's analytic functions: Drilldown, Expand, Breakout and Cube Analysis. Frequently used analysis procedures can be saved and run to update the report. The analysis paths can be stored to be available every time a report is prepared.
Vision XL: Data management, reporting, analysis and alerting add-in for Microsoft Excel allowing users to easily and securely extract and analyse data from their applications in real time, and send audited data back to applications; includes full drill down, drill around functionality within on-line reports and allows extraction and analysis of data cubes for use online or offline.
Vision Word: This Microsoft Word add-in provides extensive report writing capability for the production of reports and memorandums. Vision Word makes it easier to use the existing and familiar functionality of Word to produce professional business reports.
Vision Alert is a system-wide (LAN, WAN or Web) top-level workflow scheduling and alerting system automatically running macros or reports in response to user specified criteria, triggered from the other Vision tools or application macros and distributing them to the right people in their preferred format.
Serduct Studio enables you to simply describe the business logic of any business system, legacy system, or even database tables that exist within your organisation and immediately release the power of Vision’s Online Analysis & Reporting.
Vision Executive
Vision Executive is a standalone desktop reporting and analytical processing tool. Vision Executive (Browser) gives remote users the ability to run and interrogate the underlying application databases using Vision Executive defined reports. All Vision Executive facilities, except report design, are available in the browser version.
Executive Analysis
Delve further into the details of any report by applying Vision Executive’s analytic functions: Drilldown, Expand, Breakout and Cube Analysis. Frequently used analysis procedures can be saved and run to update the report. The analysis paths can be stored to be available every time a report is prepared.
Vision Security
Vision Executive provides security features to ensure that only authorised users can access sensitive data. Assigned user privileges are fully respected. The information a user can access will depend on the privileges assigned to that user
Cube
Vision enables any query to be output as a cube. This provides the capability to slice and dice data held in relational databases. Analyse a report, cell or group of cells by performing ad hoc drills. Save cubes for offline browsing.
Features:
- Powerful standalone reporting package.
- Incorporates a worksheet, word document output and charting facilities.
- Enables multi- dimensional and flexible analysis with Drilldown, Expand, Breakout and Cube Analysis.
- Data analysis tools, such as Drilldown and Breakout.
- Output of results in multiple formats, including Microsoft Excel, PDF and HTML.
- Full archiving facilities.
- Client and browser versions.
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Vision XL
Vision XL is an intuitive addition to the capabilities of Microsoft Excel and provides fast and adaptive ways to interact with your data. The extensive functionality of Excel is enhanced through Vision XL, enabling powerful reporting and presentation of real-time data from any system.
Vision XL provides a dynamic link between multiple data sources and Microsoft Excel into a single report. Conversely, data prepared in Excel worksheets can be sent back to your specified data source.
With its flexibility and ease-of-use, Vision XL allows non-technical users to effectively analyze data, providing enhanced analytical power and assisting the decision-making process.
An Integrated Solution
Vision XL is an Excel add-in displayed as an item on the menu bar or as a toolbar. Purpose-built functions, represented on the Vision XL menu allow dynamic and flexible access to data from any data source to populate your Excel worksheets.
Cube
Vision enables any query to be output as a cube. This provides the capability to slice and dice data held in relational databases. Analyse a report, cell or group of cells by performing ad hoc drills. Save cubes for offline browsing.
Features:
- Perform multi-dimensional analysis using Cube Analysis.
- The powerful Report Designer provides for flexible reporting.
- Perform statistical reporting using Extract Modes.
- Macro Builder enables the automation of Vision XL functions.
- Vision XL supports security features to ensure only authorized users can access sensitive data.
- Powerful security to easily control access to databases and tables.
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Vision Word
Vision Word is an intelligent, intuitive addition to the capabilities of Microsoft Word, providing fast and adaptive ways to extract data from your data source into Microsoft Word documents.
Vision Word provides extensive report writing capability, for the production of statutory as well as management reports and memorandums. Microsoft Word is one of the most commonly used applications for creating critical documents such as reports, letters and business plans. Vision Word makes it easier to use the existing and familiar functionality of Word to produce professional business reports.
Dynamic Options
Various output options are available including HTML, e-mail or print and a comprehensive Document Rules component to allow utmost flexibility in defining report subtotalling and calculation logic. Standard reports created in Word normally contain static information, using Vision Word reports can be refreshed to view the most current data available in the database.
Vision Mail Merge
Merge is an extension of Microsoft Word's Mail Merge capabilities. It allows you to specify a data source for the main merge document, insert, delete or move Vision Merge and Vision Command fields, setup the main document, and execute a Merge. Vision Mail Merge supports Equation Editor fields, which can be calculated each time a record is extracted, using the recalculate command fields. With Vision, merge generated documents can easily contain up-to-date information from any database.
Cube
Vision enables any query to be output as a cube. This provides the capability to slice and dice data held in relational databases. Analyse a report, cell or group of cells by performing ad hoc drills. Save cubes for offline browsing.
Features
- Include User Defined Output when extracting data using Vision Word.
- Multi-lingual and multi-currency.
- Powerful Merge functionality.
- Perform multi-dimensional analysis using Cube Analysis.
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Vision Alert
With Vision Alert, any Vision report can be processed on a time, event or exception driven basis with distribution via e-mail, web or file system. Alerts can be created in any report to act as triggers for push style reporting. For example, you could automate the running of Vision workbook and drill path extractions, which are then output in HTML format, and e-mailed to the desired users.
Tasks
Vision Alert allows any number of Tasks to be created that can contain interdependent Processes. If a financial tolerance is exceeded, for example, an Alert is triggered that automatically generates one or more predetermined responses such as printing a report, distributing the report via e-mail, outputting in either HTML or to a Microsoft Excel file, or even to execute designated operating system commands.
A Scalable Solution
Vision Alert is available as a client-based or server-based solution. Client based Alert enables simple “push” activity based reporting while server based Alert supports multi-user collaboration and task sharing.
Vision Integration
Vision Alert complements and enhances the capacity of the Vision reporting and analytics suite to identify and analyze the hidden opportunities and problems concealed in the data of your organization.
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Serduct Studio
Serduct Studio creates the business logic needed to access data from any business system, legacy system, application, module or table within your organization.
Serduct Studio is flexible enough to be used over complex enterprise data applications or scaled down to deliver data from a single table. It all depends on your business requirements.
Do you need Serduct Studio?
If your organization has data in disparate systems then you need a single, flexible reporting solution that can sit across all your data – this is what Serduct Studio will deliver. Serduct Studio combined with Vision will deliver:
- Consolidation and visibility of data from disparate systems for reporting and analysis
- Real-time access to any business data
- Data enhancement – providing powerful wizards and functions to enhance the usability of business data such as replacing fields with business names, adding hierarchies, deriving calculations and providing translations into other languages.
- Application Security - data that can be seen through Vision can be exactly the same as can be seen from inside the application, without having to maintain a separate parallel security model.
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SunSystems Analytics
The SunSystems Analytic Applications comprise a number of products, including:
- SunSystems Enterprise Planning
- SunSystems Consolidation
- SunSystems Subsidiary Management
SunSystems Enterprise Planning
In the face of shrinking product and development life cycles, managers must reach complex decisions quickly. Budgeting systems must cope with this rapid change and ensure transparency throughout each stage of the process. Key to streamlining this enterprise planning process is enhanced speed and flexibility.
SunSystems Enterprise Planning offers a pre-built application to meet these needs and to tackle other budgeting obstacles. It provides a sophisticated planning and forecasting environment that supports best practices like continuous budgeting and rolling forecasts.
Due to the flexible underlying technology (based on MIS DecisionWare), companies can tailor the standardized structures and reporting options to reflect their unique requirements. As a result, high-performance, customized systems can be built and maintained in record time.
SunSystems Enterprise Planning:
- A system designed to support the planning process
- Built-in workflow to manage and control the planning process
- A multi-dimensional database
- to support planning with a model reflecting the business
- a central scalable and well performing database
- secure single version of the data
- Data Integration to import/export data and definitions to/from SunSystems and other applications
- A pre-built application including most common planning requirements structure, rules, reports and processes to reduce the implementation time
- A simple design environment to enable customization, setting up multiple rollups and extensions to meet specific needs (e.g. HR planning)
- Reporting tools to enable easy review of plans and measurement of performance
- Built-in intelligence to support the planning process such as top-down/Bottom-up allocations, Phasing and Spreading, Currency conversions, etc…
SunSystems Consolidation
SunSystems Consolidation delivers a powerful solution to streamline the processes of consolidation and management reporting. This application supports major international accounting standards (e.g. IAS, US GAAP) as well as European standards like UK GAAP or HGB. Additionally, management reporting options, such as evaluating actual, budget and forecast data, are fully integrated.
A fast close is just the beginning – SunSystems Consolidation extends beyond generating financial statements to unite internal and external accounting into a single, efficient process. Organizations, therefore, can fully tap their financial data to gain real-time insight on the current state of their business. Managers can recognize emerging obstacles or opportunities in a timely fashion - and steer their activities in line with business objectives.
SunSystems Consolidation:
- A standard application designed for internal and external company and group reporting
- Out-of-the-box support for key tasks
- data collection
- manual transactions
- inter-company eliminations
- currency translation
- automatic & manual consolidation processes
- key figure calculation
- multiple scenario support
- reporting
- Supports local and international (e.g. HGB, IAS, US-GAAP, etc.) accounting standards as well as different consolidation processes as used for management reporting
SunSystems Subsidiary Management
SunSystems Subsidiary Management revolutionizes the integration and reporting of subsidiaries by gathering key information from disparate systems in local units and facilitating the transformation into a corporate standard for planning, reporting and analysis.
However this solution extends far beyond collecting local data. A central model can be distributed to subsidiaries, enabling necessary information to be collected, but it can also be tailored for local needs. Decentralized business units can load or enter data for local reporting and the application automatically enables information to be zipped, encrypted and sent via e-mail or the Internet to the next highest organizational level.
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