Finance enterprise applications

The need to achieve process standardization, improve integration between finance and core business operations, and increase timely access to business information are the most often quoted objectives within today’s leading finance organizations. Often stemming from the lack of an enterprise-wide financial system, finance organizations that have not invested in Finance ERP solutions are losing productivity and compromising the quality of decisions that shape and evaluate the strategy of their organization.

IBM’s Financial Management practice delivers improvements to finance organizations through ERP solutions. Our solution goes beyond the actual system to drive transformation of the finance function by focusing on six major areas critical to on time, on budget and on benefit delivery.

Business Challenges

• Is your organization suffering from lost productivity and performance due to a lack of financial process standardization and integration?
• Has your organization realized the benefits of a new finance operating model enabled by a world class ERP solution?
• Does your finance organization spend more time moving and reconciling data between non-integrated systems versus analyzing key information critical to decision making?
• Are deficiencies in your financial systems compromising the quality of decisions?
• Are your financial controls both effective and efficient; have they realized the benefits of automation through an ERP solution?

Finance enterprise application services we offer

• ERP financials evaluation and selection
• ERP strategy, architecture and rationalization
• ERP design, implementation and integration
• ERP enabled finance transformation
• SAP and Oracle ERP implementation, enhancement and upgrades
• Finance process standardization enabled by SAP and Oracle

Why IBM?

With more than 4,100 financial management resources located across the globe, IBM has a strong record of serving as a trusted advisor to CFOs and finance leaders with the delivery of finance ERP solutions. Our dedicated teams of research and thought leadership professionals provide insights into the issues facing finance professionals, providing us the opportunity to offer deep finance function expertise coupled with effective technology implementation and integration capability.

We offer proven finance transformation tools and the largest experienced ERP practices with the leading software providers, SAP and Oracle. IBM Financial Management Consulting services bring strong partnerships; we are the number one SAP Consulting Provider and a leading integrator of Oracle/Hyperion applications. Our recent acquisition of Cognos has added over 200 experienced Cognos practitioners to our Financial Management practice. We bring experienced IBM finance executives to meet with clients, including former CFOs, controllers and CIOs. Our consultants have worked with 75% of the global Fortune 50 and 80% of the FT 50.