Overview

SunSystems is a flexible financial and perform-ance management software solution that isused by multinationals and by small andmedium sized businesses around the world.During the last twenty years SunSystems has

been installed in 18,000 sites, with in excess ofover 100,000 users, in over 190 countries.Available in thirty languages, SunSystems helpsbusinesses improve operating efficiency andincrease visibility of financial information.

SunSystemsPowering Business Decisions

SUNSYSTEMS PROVIDES THE FOLLOWING:

- Integrated, unified financial ledger

- Powerful analysis and reporting capabilities

- Flexible business control

- A global view of the business

- Comprehensive enterprise-wide integration

- Self-service productivity tools

- Secure and easy to use software

- Full integration with performance manage-ment applications from Systems Union

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“The scalability of SunSystems, thestrong multi-currency and multi-lingualfeatures, as well as our past experiencewith the stability of SunSystemssoftware were very attractive to us.”

Seventh-day Adventist Church

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Why SunSystems?

CHALLENGES FACING THE FINANCEDEPARTMENT

Never before has so much pressure beenbrought to bear on finance departments. Theneed to provide more for less has been atheme for many years, but now CFOs areincreasingly required to add value to theirorganisations as strategic advisors and internalbusiness consultants –– and they need thetools to equip them for the job.

Specific issues facing CFOs today include:

REGULATION, COMPLIANCE & CORPORATE

GOVERNANCE

Driven by recent accounting scandals andreinforced by new legislation and guidelines,CFOs have to ensure full transparency andcontrol over all their operations. The require-ments of Sarbanes Oxley, Basel 2, IFRS, theModernisation Directive and local regulationsall demand systems that are able to cope withthese complex needs.

COST CONTROL

CFOs have always been the financial custodi-ans of the business, but the increasingpressures of global business and best valuedemand tighter controls than ever before.CFOs have to choose tools that help drivedown organisational costs whilst providingmaximum return on investment and the lowesttotal cost of ownership over the long term.

ACESS TO (THE RIGHT) DATA

Modern reporting tools increasingly allow CFOseasier access to their financial data – but whatabout access to the operational data that isrequired to get a full and accurate position ofthe overall success of the operation? How easyis it to combine operational data with financialdata to get a comprehensive view of thesuccess of the organisation, not only for inter-nal business managers, but increasingly forexternal stakeholders?

TECHNOLOGY CHANGES

Technology changes at an alarming rate. Astraditional custodians of IT, CFOs must plan forthe future at an appropriate rate, taking benefitfrom new technologies, such as Web Services,whilst ensuring that they stay current on, forexample, the latest database and operatingsystems.

THE ANSWER

SunSystems has been designed to provide thesolution to these and other challenges facingthe CFO. This brochure outlines how this isachieved.

SUNSYSTEMS FROM SYSTEMS UNION

SunSystems is a leading financial and performancemanagement software solution that is built with theneeds of today’s CFO in mind.

With exceptional analysis and reporting capabilities,managing and understanding the business has neverbeen easier.

Continual enhancements take account of latest legis-lation, technology and working practices – globally.

Combined with other reporting and performancemanagement tools from Systems Union, SunSystemsprovides all the capabilities that today’s CFO couldwant to manage, understand and improve their organ-isation.

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Powering Business Decisions

POWERING BUSINESS DECISIONS

Whatever the size of the organization,businesses today need solutions to improveoperating efficiency and help understand howthe business is performing. Problem areas needto be highlighted quickly and potential opportuni-ties identified to maximize opportunities forrevenue growth.

SunSystems addresses this need through itsunique combination of flexible analysis capabili-ties and integrated business analytics. It deliverspowerful reporting coupled with real-time alertsin order to highlight areas that need immediateaction. This can be anywhere within thebusiness, because SunSystems’ sophisticatedanalytics allow analysis across multiple applica-tions, including third party or legacy applications.

CORPORATE ACCOUNTABILITY

Integrated business analytics can also helpaddress the challenges of corporate accountabil-ity. Stakeholders inside and outside the organiza-tion are demanding greater visibility of financialdata and other key performance measures.SunSystems’ integrated business analyticsprovide visual representation of KPIs (KeyPerformance Indicators) and web-based deliveryof management information. This means you canprovide a consistent and timely view of businessperformance to your stakeholders, whereverthey are located.

UNDERSTANDING YOUR BUSINESS

Vision is an online reporting and analyticssoftware suite that enables you to query andexplore all your business data in real-time.

Vision users easily build reports on live datausing unique Serduct® technology. Serductscontain data access logic and business rulesthat present and enhance application data as aneasy to navigate business language, insulatingusers from data access complexities.

IMPROVING CORPORATE PERFORMANCE

Systems Union also provides a range of analyticapplications and customized solutions that helpmanage corporate performance, includingconsolidation, planning, budgeting and forecast-ing. The analytic applications support sophisti-cated enterprise planning by allowing organiza-tions to model their business, create multipleplanning scenarios and generate expectedoutcomes using a powerful financial model.They also support businesses that simply wantto improve their budgeting processes by reduc-ing their reliance on disconnected spreadsheets.The analytic applications leverage otherSunSystems applications so that financial andbusiness information is shared and synchronizedbetween them.

“We needed a financial solution thatcould analyze and manage businesstransactions, internal assets, budget,expenses and income, and makeaccounting management and queryingsimpler. With SunSystems, we can getinformation such as status of sales,inventory movements, cash flow andfinancial operation easily, and applyadvanced management concepts in ourdaily work.”

21ViaNet China Inc.

“SunSystems’ ease-of-use, depth offunctionality and analysis capabilitiesmean that we can drill down into thespecific details of any event and use thisinformation for forecasting, budgetsetting and the preparation of meaningfulreports for our marketing and eventmanagers. It is fantastic.”

Melbourne Cricket Club

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SunSystems uses analysis dimensions to createa repository of financial information that can beanalyzed in various ways by flexibly selectingrelationships. This means users can easily reporton the information needed by the business,supporting faster decision-making.

The SunSystems Solution

POWERFUL FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT

At the heart of the SunSystems solution is asingle, integrated ledger that combines thefunctionality of the nominal ledger, receivablesand payables ledgers, project ledger, cashbookand user-defined ledgers. This provides a power-ful, real-time, financial transaction processingengine that lets you see the immediate impactof any financial posting, giving you greater visibil-ity into your business.

ANALYZING YOUR BUSINESS

The SunSystems solution provides tremendousflexibility in the ways you can analyze financialand business information. ‘Analysis dimen-sions’ are set up to reflect organizational activ-ity such as departments, accounts, products,regions or lines of business. There is no needto prescribe a data relationship in advance, asthe analysis dimensions are created andmaintained independently of each other, butare linked through transaction processing andvalidation rules. This means you can add newanalysis dimensions or change existing ones asyour business changes, providing unrivalledflexibility without implementation complexity.

“We estimate that on average, we save acouple of days a month on the produc-tion of figures.”

Numerica

“The ease of use has been a criticalsuccess factor in the successful adoptionof SunSystems. The reporting capabilitiesare now helping us better interpret ourdata, driving up the effectiveness andefficiency of Fleet operations.”

Royal Navy

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“Our decision was based onSunSystems’ proven capabilities as atruly global solution that could becustomized to meet both our central andlocal requirements. We believed that itwas a more appropriate solution for ourAfrican region due to its robust and flexi-ble infrastructure, rich functionality, easeof use, rapid implementation times andcost effectiveness.”

Diageo Africa

The SunSystems Solution

SunSystems Procurement reduces administra-tion overheads and streamlines purchasingactivities, thus enabling purchasing profession-als to focus on purchasing strategies andsupplier negotiation and management.

ORDER MANAGEMENT

SunSystems delivers a comprehensive range ofOrder Management functionality to help youtake control of your sales, purchasing andinventory management operations.

Order Management utilises the commonSunSystems features to ensure integrationwith other members of your value chain, deliversolutions across the web and exploit theprocess definition features which mean youdon't need to give up your operational flexibility.

SUNSYSTEMS OFFERS A BROAD RANGE OF

FUNCTIONALITY ENCOMPASSING THE

FOLLOWING FUNCTIONAL AREAS:FINANCIALS

Finance and accounting data is at the heart ofalmost every organizational decision. Themeasure of success and failure in the businessworld is based upon data that is collected,measured and analyzed in the finance andaccounting processes. The SunSystems finan-cial modules are specifically designed to provideimmediate access to all finance and accountinginformation to support fast and effectivedecision-making.

SunSystems covers all aspects of financialmanagement, including nominal ledger,payables and recievables ledgers, consolidation,corporate allocations, multi-currency, dual base-currency, fixed assets, budget management anddebtor management. All our solutions are fullyeuro-compliant and support multiple GAAPreporting.

PROCUREMENT

In a highly competitive and constantly changingenvironment, controlling purchasing has neverbeen more important.

SunSystems Procurement is a complete,comprehensive, web-based spend control andmanagement solution, designed to bedeployed to large numbers of employees toprovide visibility and control over purchasingactivities. It enables employees to managetheir own purchasing requirements within therules and policies that are defined for theirorganization.

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TIME, EXPENSE AND RESOURCE

MANAGEMENT

SunSystems offers a suite of web based, selfservice applications which increase employeeproductivity and business performance byrecording, approving and tracking time andexpenses as well as managing resources.

Key benefits include faster, automated adminis-tration, streamlined and simplified processes,reduced errors and discrepancies and a fastreturn on investment.

PROFESSIONAL SERVICES AUTOMATION

SunSystems provides a flexible solution thatcan accommodate sophisticated projectaccounting and costing requirements.SunSystems PSA offers full professionalservices automation functionality coveringproject accountancy, resource management,web-based time and expenses managementand billing, to improve staff utilization and driverevenue recovery. This enables effectivemanagement of projects and resources fororganizations that offer the services of skilledstaff on a project basis, either to externalclients or in-house. The solution is integratedwith the other SunSystems applications tosupport and enhance the flow of informationthrough the business.

INTEGRATED ANALYTICS

SunSystems provides a comprehensive portfo-lio of reporting and business intelligencesolutions that enable you to turn your data intomeaningful information, and deliver it to theright people at the right time. Our solutionsdeliver unique insight into every facet ofbusiness by providing the ability to drill downinto the multiple dimensions of your financialand business information. The analytics infra-structure allows integrated reporting and analy-sis of SunSystems data and data from otherthird-party or legacy applications in your organ-ization.

Reports can be pre-formatted or executed adhoc by users, scheduled or on-demand, avail-able via the web to employees, customers andpartners anywhere in the world. By allowingyou to monitor KPIs and business processesthrough proactive alerts and reporting,SunSystems helps you to deliver the criticalbusiness information your managers andemployees need to make the right decisions atthe right time.

Systems Union also delivers a range of analyticapplications that help manage corporateperformance. These include budgeting,planning and forecasting, consolidation,balanced scorecard and risk managementcapabilities that can span multiple financesystems.

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EXTENDED FINANCIAL MANAGEMENTSUNSYSTEMS exfmSunSystems exfm is a unique combination offinancial management, reporting and perform-ance management applications that enable thefinance function to better manage, understandand improve the business.

SunSystems exfm gives users greater align-ment between business strategies and opera-tions whilst improving visibility of trends andfactors affecting business performance.SunSystems exfm integrates the very best ofSunSystems financial management with MISand Vision solutions for business intelligence,reporting and analytics into a unified solution.This is accessible through a roles-based portal,which enables the finance function to delivergreater value to the business.

SunSystems exfm also offers additionalProcurement and Productivity bundles, provid-ing a compelling ROI in the areas of Procure-to-Pay and Workforce Automation, enablingbusinesses to benefit from an integratedframework that extends beyond the financefunction.

A UNIQUE SOLUTION

SunSystems exfm is the only integrated finan-cial management, reporting and performancemanagement solution, aimed at mid-marketorganisations, that is developed, sold andsupported by a single vendor backed by a globaldistribution network. This means that the appli-cations are designed to work together, remov-ing the cost and complexity of integratingdisparate applications.

INTEGRATION AND TECHNOLOGYPOWERFUL INTEGRATION CAPABILITIES

SunSystems offers powerful facilities tointegrate SunSystems with other businessapplications. Data held in SunSystems can bequeried, created or updated directly from otherapplications real-time or scheduled using acomponent-based electronic gateway.SunSystems also has powerful file import andexport facilities that allow users to scheduleimport/export routines to run at predefinedintervals. All data transferred into SunSystemsis validated using appropriate business logiccomponents.

WEB-BASED SOLUTIONS

SunSystems solutions can be used to gener-ate, manage and securely deliver criticalbusiness information to thousands of usersacross the web. Reports on key performanceindicators can be integrated into your website,with personalized views provided to authorizedusers to ensure important information ishighlighted quickly.

E-BUSINESS SOLUTIONS

SunSystems’ integration tools enable you tointegrate core business processes and datawith web applications or portals, front officesystems or other external applications usingstandard protocols like XML (ExtensibleMarkup Language) and SOAP (Secure ObjectAccess Protocol). This provides your organiza-tion with a seamless e-Business environmentto improve operating efficiency.

A CHOICE OF TECHNOLOGY

SunSystems pursues an open platform strat-egy. Our solutions operate independently ofdatabase and server platforms, running onMicrosoft Windows NT, with SQL Server orOracle, and UNIX with Oracle

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Solving global business challenges

A GLOBAL SOLUTION

Finding financial and business managementapplications that meet the needs of your opera-tions around the world is a challenge. Butfinding a solution that can also be implementedquickly and cost-effectively is an even biggerchallenge. Forcing a corporate-level ERP (enter-prise resource planning) solution across allsubsidiary companies regardless of their sizeand business needs is a high cost, high risk andpotentially time-consuming strategy.

Many of the world’s largest multinationals havefound that deploying SunSystems in theirsubsidiary operations gives them a low risksolution that co-exists alongside their corporateERP applications. SunSystems is unique in itsglobal reach, providing a combination of inter-national functionality and local support that isunrivalled by even the largest enterprise appli-cation vendors.

SunSystems customers include:

- 45 of the 50 largest corporations in theworld

- 85 of the FTSE100

- A quarter of the Fortune 500

LOCAL KNOWLEDGE

SunSystems delivers global functionality withthe local knowledge to support your business.SunSystems is available in 30 languages, withsophisticated multi-currency capabilities andsupport for local statutory compliance. Thismeans it can be deployed wherever you arelocated. And with 45 offices around the worldand more than 500 channel partners in 76countries, you can be sure that your solutionwill be implemented and supported by peoplethat understand your business environment.

“SunSystems provides a formerlyunachievable level of transparency in thedata and information generated by ourprojects however remote they may be.This is increasingly significant as weexpand our operations across the world.Indeed we have been working in Asia,Africa, Latin America and Eastern Europeand have needed a solution that deliversreal-time information securely fromthese globally different regions.”

GFA Consulting

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The SunSystems Difference

SunSystems is unique. It’s not just the powerand flexibility of our software that makes us thesystem of choice to businesses around theworld, it is the combination of our global reachand ability to deliver sophisticated solutions at afraction of the cost of legacy ERP vendors thatmakes us different.

LOW RISK

The flexibility of SunSystems means it can easilybe configured to meet your organizational struc-tures and business processes rather than theother way around. This means that SunSystemscan meet your requirements without jeopardiz-ing the way you run your business. Our imple-mentation methodology, used consistently byour own consultants and our partners, meansthat SunSystems can be delivered rapidly andeasily to organizations across the globe.Shortened implementation timescales and easeof use deliver quick benefits to users whilereducing the risk of failure. This means thatglobal deployments can be delivered rapidly.

GLOBAL REACH & DELIVERY

SunSystems has focused on delivering globalsolutions for over 20 years. Unlike most otherbusiness application developers, internationalfunctionality is a core part of our solutions, notan afterthought. Backed by a network of over 45offices and 500 channel partners worldwide, wehave the capability to deliver solutions whereveryou are located.

LOW TOTAL COST OF OWNERSHIP

Most enterprise applications are complex andcostly to implement. However, the problemsdon’t end with initial implementation. The cost ofmaintaining, managing and upgrading enterpriseapplications means the total cost of ownershipover the life of the system is unacceptably high.SunSystems is different. Rapid deploymentcoupled with cost-effective training and upgradeservices means that SunSystems can deliverbusiness benefits at a lower total cost of owner-ship. And the flexibility of the system means itcan change as your business changes withoutthe need for expensive reprogramming oroutside consulting resources. Furthermore thescalability of SunSystems and its open technol-ogy platform means it can grow with yourbusiness and adapt to changes in your technicalenvironment, maximizing the return on yourinvestment.

“SunSystems is backed with a provenimplementation methodology and a cost-effective price tag. Plus, SunSystems is aplug-and-play solution that offers localcustomization and flexibility and it has avery short implementation time. There’sno doubt that the new SunSystemsmodel is making our lives easier. It’sproven to be a very beneficial tool, onethat certainly adds value.”

International Operations, MetLife

“The time and money we have savedthrough improved administrationprocesses is considerable. And thatmeans more of our funds can be spenton saving children.”

Save the Children (UK)

The SunSystems Difference

PROFESSIONAL SERVICES,SUPPORT & TRAINING

CONSULTANCY

We offer a range of consultancy services toensure the return on your SunSystems invest-ment is maximized, with minimum risk.Application consultants, business analysts,project managers, technology consultants,trainers and integration specialists provide awide range of skills, with experience across theglobe, all backed by our proven implementationmethodology.

GLOBAL & LOCAL SUPPORT

SunSystems Support delivers peace of mind byproviding your business with telephone andweb access to our help desks. We also offertailored technical support account manage-ment and 24-hour coverage to support rolloutsacross multiple regions. SunSystems users cantake advantage of a range of offerings, includ-ing real-time, personalized support via ourglobal support network, providing locallanguage, business knowledge and superiorproduct expertise.

EDUCATION

To maximize your investment in SunSystems,comprehensive education and trainingprograms are available for end users, projectteams and partners - either onsite, through theInternet or in dedicated learning centers.

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GET IN TOUCH..TODAY

For more information on SunSystemsproducts, services, business solutions or ourpartners, please visit our web site atwww.systemsunion.com or contact yournearest SunSystems provider.

“With its reputation of reliability andstability, we chose SunSystems to be thestandardized system for all our offices inChina.”

McDonald’s China

"The alternatives for Castrol Poland werereviewed and we worked out that thepayback on SunSystems would be ninemonths. The alternatives were in excessof two years."

BP Poland

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