ERP Enhancements

ERP systems cover a broad function scope and offer a degree of integration across their applications. However, such breadth often leads to a lack of focus on spend control issues such as bringing maverick spend under control, giving visibility of the cost pipeline and delivering economies of scale.

PROACTIS is proven to help organizations extend their IT investments and incorporate ‘best-in-class’ capabilities for Spend Control and e-Procurement. In addition, Proactis Business Partner Program has attracted a range of companies who specialize in the deployment of PROACTIS solutions for specific ERP environments.

PROACTIS helps you to leverage your existing IT investments in ERP or financial software packages including:

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Spend Control & e-Procurement is clearly an area where best-in-class applications delivered by specialists in procurement provide considerably more breadth and depth of functionality than what is available in a n ERP or financial software package. But when any new application is introduced into a company’s systems environment, it is very important that integration with other applications is well thought through and well implemented in order to ensure seamless business processes and avoid complex systems management. The approach must address issues such as the need:

• To maintain base data such as account codes and suppliers in one place without duplicate entry
• For the new application to conform to existing data such as the company’s chart of accounts
• To dynamically access certain data, such as the account balances, as part of processing transactions
• To upgrade individual applications at different times without undue impact on the integration
• To protect and fully leverage investments in existing systems

The PROACTIS Integration Framework is a proven solution to effectively address these challenges.

Proactis applications are all designed to be ‘agnostic’ to surrounding financial and operational systems, whether they be packaged or in-house developed applications. The PROACTIS Integration Framework provides clearly-defined integration points and standards-based tools that make it easy to integrate PROACTIS with just about any application. Going even further, PROACTIS standard integration kits deliver “out-of-the-box” integration with popular ERP and financial software packages. These kits are designed to get organizations up and running rapidly with seamless integration.

Proactis has also created a partner network of organizations that specialize on delivering PROACTIS solutions and extending the value of popular ERP and financial packages.

The PROACTIS Integration Framework benefits include:

Clearly identified integration points enable quick and easy integration with any financial and ERP system:

• Data synchronization to utilize information from other systems while retaining the original point of entry and maintenance
• Interactive lookup and validation of key information
• Transaction input points allow transactions initiated outside PROACTIS to be incorporated in the workflow
• Authorized payment outputs
• Document management integration provides in-line access to source documents
• Excel Gateway makes it easy to synchronize information

 Use of industry standards and industry standard tools make integration highly maintainable:

• Standards such as SQL, XML, cXML, BASDA-eBiz, and Web Services etc. are utilized throughout PROACTIS
• Microsoft tools such as MSSIS are used to maintain consistency with the Microsoft Technology Platform
• Architecture that supports a SOA environment

 Templated integration with popular ERP and financial systems

• Out-of-the-box integration kits that reduce the time to establish a seamless enterprise environment
• “Wizard-based” integration setup makes it easy to tailor the link between PROACTIS and other business systems with minimal technical skills required
• Modular framework provides a processing engine into the application-specific “kits” can be plugged – offering future extensibility
• Web-service technology provides state-of-the-art communication
• Full audit-trail on all transactions gives traceability and roll-back capability