Next Gen Infor FMS SunSystems “SunSystems Enterprise” released today
Titled a Solution that allows you to “change without changing”, our favourite UL (unified ledger) solution has had a marvellous spruce-up, with a new web-based user interface, and new reporting capabilities.
The strength of Infor FMS SunSystems is in its name – it’s a FMS (Financial Management System) as opposed to ERP – and so is well suited in verticals that are largely service oriented, and need super-strong financials.
Infor SunSystems Enterprise comes days after Infor announced a round of updates to match no year in its history, and even fewer days after “Infor Workspace” was released (a Microsoft SharePoint based UI tool for Infor ERP applications, including SunSystems).
Here’s some “News Points” from Infor:
- Infor FMS SunSystems Enterprise is the next generation of financial management solutions from Infor, with superior capabilities that help reduce costs, shorten financial close processes, achieve data consistency, enforce global financial standards and processes, and improve financial transparency.
- Enhancements in FMS SunSystems Enterprise include:
- Infor Workspace, a consumer grade user experience, based on Microsoft Sharepoint, that provides a consistent look and feel with a single sign-on, unified navigation and in-context collaboration to multiple Infor applications, simplifying financial management, saving time and increasing usability.
- A Web-based user interface to provide cost effective remote access, streamline processes, make information available when it is needed, and reduce time to complete financial management tasks.
- Improved reporting capabilities that help managers make accurate decisions with less reliance on IT through a new reporting tool and report designer, with a library of standard reports.
- Ad hoc reporting functionality from Infor PM Query & Analysis that will run inside web parts providing in-context operational intelligence to aid real time decision making.
- FMS SunSystems Enterprise will utilize Infor ION to provide advanced yet simple application integration, business process management and shared data reporting.
Here’s what an Infor SunSystems user, SHL thinks about the new release:
"SunSystems Enterprise represents an exciting opportunity for SHL to help improve the way we work," said Charles May, systems accountant, SHL. "As a multi-national company, the ability to enter transactions and inquire about our financial position via the web is a tremendous asset. Currently we use a well known product to 'publish' our applications to end users. The web enablement of SunSystems will significantly decrease our reliance on such products and lead to fewer servers being used. As a result, on-going cost savings are expected over the life of this new system, even while our business is growing rapidly."
And a statement from Ventana Research:
"Infor FMS SunSystems Enterprise gives users a broad range of reporting and analysis capabilities that greatly increase its value to company executives, who can get better information sooner," said Robert Kugel, senior vice president of Ventana Research. "It reduces IT overhead by enabling users to create or modify periodic or ad hoc analyses and reports without IT department involvement, as well as allowing remote users to work through a browser instead of requiring software to be deployed at every location."
And finally, from Infor themselves:
"FMS SunSystems Enterprise is the next generation of financial management systems, empowering financial managers to escape from constraints of traditional applications and employ 'Smart Transactions,' to redefine their business on the fly," said Chris Murphy, senior vice president, Financial Management Systems, Infor. "Further, with the introduction of Infor ION and the new consumer-grade user experience, financial managers will benefit from new workflow capabilities to proactively deliver tasks and alerts from multiple applications, and role-specific information such as KPIs and reports."
To see the new release in action, check out this SunSystems demo on Olympic’s YouTube Channel.
Or, to learn more, contact Kevin Ogilvie today.