| Gavin May | |
| Managing Director | |
| Enterprise Solutions Division |
Automating the finance
department
Market maturity
Integrated solutions
Market maturity
Most important issues facing business
| Business requirements are changing : | |
| Businesses are looking to improve efficiency and reduce cost through business process improvement | |
| Employees need greater and easier access to company information | |
| Customers and suppliers want to conduct business with you electronically | |
| Application interfaces have to be re-designed, they need to be highly interactive, relevant to role and personalised. | |
| Interfaces need to be flexible enough to work with any device | |
| Challenges: | |
| Multiple systems designed and deployed to address departmental only needs | |
| Multiple data sources locked in disparate departmental systems | |
| No application integration | |
| Little if no web integration | |
| Security…opening your network up to the world | |
| Tired and non dynamic user interface | |
make your data accessible and relevant
| By this time next year 8 out of 10 mid
market companies will be focussed on improvements in electronically
integrating both supply and customer transactions. Source ( Supply Chain Management White Paper 2003) |
| Protect your existing systems | |
| Add new applications to enhance current systems…improve presentation and personalise data | |
| Get more from existing systems…unlock the asset! | |
| Integrate and Interface your systems to facilitate new services to employees, customers suppliers etc. | |
| Sage is driving the ‘connected world’ | |
| A major step forward our new release Version 5.5 | |