Sapphire Systems case studies - Infor10 SunSystems

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19 Entertainment

Significant growth and diversity of 19 Entertainment meant that the financial management team found that Sage, their existing accounting package, no longer met their requirements. They had a need for a financial accounting solution that would give them consolidation and flexibility.

Industry : Broadcasting/Media Solution : Infor SunSystems
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Arts Council of Wales

The ACW first recognized the need for a new financial management system when they were faced by a number of challenges that they were unable to resolve through their existing accounting solution. This included the demand for a more flexible reporting and analysis solution...

Industry : NFP / Gov't Solution : Infor SunSystems
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AXA

The company had a requirement for a system to post directly into SunSystems using SunSystems' nominal ledger rules, so that they could move away from exporting and uploading between different systems. Please click on the links below for the full story.

Industry : Finance Solution : MaxiSun
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Breast Cancer Care

Breast Cancer Care had out grown their existing accounting system and was in need of a new flexible finance solution that would enable them to eliminate data duplication and have the ability to grow with their business needs.

Industry : NFP / Charity Solution : Infor SunSystems
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Charterhouse

Charterhouse ultimately selected SunSystems from Sapphire as not only did it meet their requirements for flexible reporting but, in choosing Sapphire to supply the solution, they felt they would have access to a more complete range of post-sales support and training services.

Industry : Professional Services Solution : Infor SunSystems
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Citizens Advice Bureau

Citizens Advice wanted to adopt an improved reporting system without sacrificing the reliability and stability of the existing investment: "When you have almost two decades of experience with a solution you become expert at the "shortcuts‟ that reduce workflows"...

Industry : NFP / Charity Solution : Infor SunSystems
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CPM UK Ltd

The main issues were to agree the required invoice authorisation workflow allied with integration with SunSystems. With this in hand, the initial phase of the rollout to the finance department was completed...Please click on the links below for the full story.

Industry : Advertising / Media Solution : Infor SunSystems
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Crew Gold

The team at Crew Gold wanted to be able to efficiently pull data directly from Mainpac into SunSystems. Although there was in interface in place, it wasn't working very well and had a lot of errors. "We wanted to find a better solution" explained Bent Froesig, Finance Manager at Crew Gold.

Industry : Gold Mining Solution : MaxiSun
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Hansteen Holding

Hansteen were using an entry level Sage solution that was no longer meeting the needs of the financial management team. A requirement for a more flexible system was a key business driver behind finding a new financial accounting solution.

Industry : Property Investments Solution : Infor SunSystems
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Hoseasons Group

Both organisations were using Infor FMS SunSystems for accounting, albeit different versions from different providers, so following the acquisition it was good practice to move onto the same, latest version. It made sense to take advantage of economies of scale and deal with one provider.

Industry : Travel & Real Estate Solution : Infor SunSystems
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Improveline

The incredible growth of the organisation, and forecast future expansion required second-phase funding by July 2000. The time had come to search for a more suitable accounting solution that would cope with the new challenges that growth represents.

Industry : Professional Services Solution : Infor SunSystems
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Infrared

Jonathan Dunstan, Project Manager, commented "Now that we are no longer part of a large organisation we had to put all our systems and back office together from scratch, it is important for us to stand on our own two feet as it were – and do it well. We were after a system that would offer strong reporting, with a robust structure.

Industry : Financial Services Solution : SunSystems 5.4.1
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International Power

"Our key aim is to run our stations with maximum availability and so it makes sense for us to use the top of the range solution in each application area and integrate them accordingly". Bill Hogg, IT Project Manager, International Power. Please click on the links below for the full story.

Industry : Energy, Oil & Gas Solution : MaxiSun
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JAC Online Travel

Due to the successful growth of the company, Financial Director, Steve O'Hara and his team at JAC were struggling with their incumbent financial accounting solution which was integrated with the operations system - and was starting to creak at the seams.

Industry : Travel & Tourism Solution : Infor SunSystems
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Kinetic Worldwide

Part of the WWP Group, Kinetic was created by merging Portland Outdoor with Poster Publicity; and the new integrated finance team were tasked with selecting a financial accounting solution to be used across Kinetic's global operation.

Industry : Broadcasting/Media Solution : Infor SunSystems
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Liberum Capital

Prior to the initial installation of SunSystems in 2009, Liberum had been using Sage. A new solution had been sought to handle multi-currency, consolidation and other functionality not covered. Liberum found SunSystems from Sapphire via the Evaluation Centre website.

Industry : Financial Services Solution : Infor FMS SunSystems 5.4
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Liberty Wines

Liberty Wines needed a system that would help them deliver good customer service, a system that could keep up with company growth, and a requirement for a specialised accounting system. They also needed to ensure adequate controls were implemented, and there was a greater need for reporting and analysis, SunSystems was the answer...

Industry : Retail Distribution Solution : Infor SunSystems
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Mears Group

In 1999, Mears inherited an Infor FMS SunSystems solution as part of the acquisition of another company. On reviewing SunSystems Ben Westran, Group Financial Controller, and the finance team at Mears concluded it was more suited to the needs of the business than their existing solution, Summit 2000.

Industry : NFP / Charity Solution : MaxiSun
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Raven Housing Trust

Raven Housing Trust wanted to improve the efficiency in the area of purchasing and to become paperless office. They wanted to replace their paper based system that wasn't scalable, was resource intensive, was not as secure as they wanted it to be and was susceptible to human error

Industry : Housing Solution : iPOS
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RO Group

There was a requirement for simplification of the whole finance function without having to reinvent the wheel, so the logical decision was taken to upgrade from SunSystems Version 4 to Version 5. Please click on the links below for the full story.

Industry : Property / Real Estate Solution : Infor SunSystems
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Royal Academy of Dance

"As an international business we deal with many foreign currencies and perform two consolidations on our accounts: one for the UK and one worldwide. We were after a cash based system since students and members make payment up front, on applying to the Academy, rather than issuing invoices." Richard Thom

Industry : NFP / Charity Solution : Infor SunSystems
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Salix Finance

Salix Finance needed a system that would help review their current processes and infrastructure, was able to fit in to the company structure and manage financial costs effectively. They also required a system that would grow with the business, and would deliver with ease of use.

Industry : Financial Solution : Infor SunSystems
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Serica

On joining the Company, Rob Tamburrini, Group Finance Manager, found that he had a very short time frame in which to select and implement a financial accounting solution at Serica – not least because at that time most of the accounts were being run on spreadsheets.

Industry : Energy, Oil & Gas Solution : Infor SunSystems
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St Paul at Lloyds

St. Paul at Lloyd‟s fragmented financial systems were in need of consolidation. This major project, undertaken by the Group‟s financial department, involved the merging of all the financial software and data onto one central server running MS SQL Server on a Windows NT operating system.

Industry : Financial Services Solution : Infor SunSystems
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Together

In 2004, Together selected Sun Systems to replace Sage line 100 as its primary financial package. Together has 10 licences for SunSystems and 8 for Vision. 14 members of the team share this access fluidly throughout the day. Please click on the links below for the full story.

Industry : NFP / Charity Solution : Infor SunSystems
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Townends

Kevin Squires, Financial Accountant, explained the requirement to upgrade: "Essentially our hardware had outgrown our software. We hadn't upgraded SunSystems as it worked well for us and there were no failings in the system. When the need to upgrade our hardware arose we also took the opportunity to look at all our software packages and decided to upgrade SunSystems at the same time."

Industry : Property Solution : Infor SunSystems
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Trinity College of London

Tracy Everett, Project Manager/Systems Accountant, at TCL said "New solutions were introduced in response to the changing pace of a growing business; it was a good opportunity to upgrade and introduce more rigour to
finance".

Industry : Education Solution : Infor SunSystems
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United Fleet Distribution

In 2009, UFD was sold by parent company Mears to British Car Auctions. As a result UFD was no longer able to utilise Mears' financial accounting solution, so needed to implement their own...Please click on the links below for the full story.

Industry : Vehicle Delivery Solution : Infor SunSystems
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v

As a start up organisation, the team at v set about getting operating systems in place. Ian Threadgold, Interim Finance Manager at the Russell Commission selected SunSystems from a shortlist of three financial accounting solutions. Please click on the links below for the full story.

Industry : Charity Solution : Infor SunSystems
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