Previous Events - March 2010

90% of spreadsheets used in corporate planning
contained significant errors.

PricewaterhouseCoopers survey

Date:	Tuesday 9th March Perth	Thursday 11th March Melbourne
Venue:	The Park Business Centre 45 Ventnor Ave West Perth WA 6005	Professional Advantage Level 10, 500 Collins Street Melbourne VIC
Agenda:	8:45am – 9:00am – Registration & Light Breakfast 9:00am – 10:00am – Presentation
Registration:	Click here to register

Are you being asked to revise forecasts more frequently?

The pressure on the finance team to produce accurate budgets and comprehensive projections of future trading has never been greater.

Finance must “sharpen the edges” of planning, forecasting and analysis to enhance business agility and achieve performance predictability.

IT Managers are also tasked with pulling information together from disparate sources across the organisation. This can be a significant challenge and an impediment to reliable management reporting. They require a “single source of truth” in data, while leveraging existing IT investments.

Why is it so difficult?

Organisations relying on manual processes and spreadsheets can never meet today’s business demands within safe limits of risk, cost and timeliness.

We provide solutions that help you plan, manage, monitor and analyse corporate performance – without the overhead.

Why attend?

Struggling with spreadsheet proliferation?
Having trouble managing the budget &/or reporting cycles in a timely manner?
Dealing with serious issues of data fragmentation, inconsistency and consolidation?
Want to produce multiple forecast versions (inc. cash-flow impacts) or what if scenario planning?
Having difficulty aligning the budget &/or performance reporting to corporate strategy?
Experiencing performance and scalability problems with your current methods?

Infor PM is a leading Performance Management solution including:

Sophisticated planning and forecasting capabilities that support best practices like continuous budgeting, rolling forecasts and what-if scenario planning.
Highly configurable, custom reporting (Business Intelligence) for gathering data from multiple sources and distributing management information.

Infor PM enables timely decisions that improve business productivity and profitability - ‘business intelligence’ you can rely on!

Maximise your effectiveness with SunSystems

Please Join Us

Date:

Perth - Tuesday 16th March 2010

Venue:

The Park Business Centre
45 Ventnor Ave
West Perth WA

Time:

8:45am – 09:45am

Registration:

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08:45 – 08:55	Registration & Light Breakfast
08:55 – 09:05	Quick upgrade refresher The ground never stands still for technology. Our last inTouch covered the issues and buzz words to listen out for that could result in the need to upgrade SunSystems. A quick refresher with the latest updates will help you understand the potential triggers and the options available to you.
09:05 – 09:15	What are your SunSystems peers doing? It has been quite a year of changes and new resolutions made by SunSystems clients especially coming out of the GFC and with auditor’s recommendations ringing in their ears. What sort of changes have your peers been making to improve their financial processes? We talk about projects and enhancements that WA SunSystems users have been making. High on the list of changes has been reporting enhancements, assets, budgeting processes, security and audit enhancements and sales invoicing.
09:15 – 09:45	Benefits of a multi use application What would it be like to have one platform yet be able to solve a number of disparate problems? Come and see Workflow for SunSystems (WF4SS). Be able to incorporate processes such as credit cards, expense management, purchase invoice management, supplier management, addition and amendment of SunSystems codes such as GL and analysis codes all under one umbrella. In fact any process using paper forms to get the job done!

Date:

Brisbane - Thurs 18th March 2010

Venue:

Sofitel Brisbane Central
Concorde Room
249 Turbot Street
Brisbane QLD

Time:

8:45am - 10:00am

Registration:

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08:45 – 09:00	Registration & Light Breakfast
09:00 – 09:10	Welcome and Introduction The ground never stands still for technology. Our last inTouch covered the issues and buzz words to listen out for that could result in the need to upgrade SunSystems. This important refresher with the latest updates will help you understand the potential triggers and the options available to you.
09:10 – 09:30	Jody Barnes - Professional Services Manager Hear some stories from recent projects that have been completed by your peers. Jody will give some background to the reasons why various clients have recently invested further in SunSystems to maximise their business outcomes. In focus will be the benefits gained and any lessons learnt along the way.
09:30 – 09:50	Workflow for SunSystems - Mark Hawthorne, PA Solutions Consultant Productivity is the catch cry post the GFC. In every day terms for you and me that means doing more work with the people and resources currently available to us. In this session Mark will talk about, and show examples of, how some of our clients have already driven significant efficiencies within their businesses, increased their compliance for audits and improved activities and processes that reduce the effectiveness of the finance team.
09:50 – 10:00	Q & A

“While the other products we considered seemed to meet most of

our requirements, Infor FMS SunSystems just seemed to do

everything a little bit better.”

Join us for this FREE seminar to hear what our extended financial
management solution can bring to your business.

Date:	Tuesday 16th March - Sydney
Venue:	The Hilton Level 2, Room 2 488 George Street Sydney NSW 2000
Agenda:	8:45am - 9:00am - Registration & light breakfast 9:00am - 10:30am - Presentation
Registration:	Click here to register

Infor FMS SunSystems offers a unique combination of financial and performance management applications, with genuine end-to-end business process management.
We enable the finance department to deliver greater value to the business by providing:

Comprehensive financial management functionality
Powerful real-time analysis & ‘self service’ reporting
Sophisticated budgeting, forecasting & planning
Automation & workflow…extending beyond the Finance team
Business intelligence, eprocurement, timesheets, expense management and more
Flexible systems integration

Our live product demonstration will outline a broad range of functionality that has made Infor FMS SunSystems a global market leader. It provides highly flexible configuration options for a low total cost of ownership that we’re sure you will find remarkably compelling.

Date:	Wednesday 17th March - Brisbane
Venue:	Hilton Hotel Room 82 190 Elizabeth Street Brisbane QLD 4000
Agenda:	Registration & Light Breakfast: 8:45am - 9:00am Presentation: 9:00am - 10:00am
Registration:	Click here to register

You are invited to a FREE SEMINAR on XMPro, a business process management suite.

See how XMPro can quickly deliver the outcomes you need, not the ones you get.

Thinking SharePoint? Discover how XMPro builds upon SharePoint to strengthen
and extend process capability.

Get Control: How to ensure the right people at the right time capture the right information.
Understand Processes: are not always a neat set of tasks. Orchestrate the process using business rules to handle the subtleties and exceptions.
Profit from experience: Gain visibility and benchmark KPI’s. Use analysis to
continually identify improvements.

Are you seeking efficiency, compliance and consistency…
with minimal staff training and business disruption while
using your current systems?

Date:	Thursday 18th March - Melbourne
Venue:	Professional Advantage Level 10 500 Collins Street Melbourne VIC
Agenda:	8:30am – 9:00am – Registration & Light Breakfast 9:00am – 10:00am – Presentation
Registration:	Click here to register

See how you can:

GUARANTEE business procedures are followed.
Transform your paper based requests; eliminate multiple paper handling.
Gain visibility; track who your activities are with and set escalations.
Extend the capability and reach of your current systems.
Monitor service levels, identify bottlenecks, take ACTION before critical levels are reached.
Gain new, highly relevant KPI measurement capability.

Have you already made an investment in SharePoint? No problem – our SharePoint
plug-in greatly extends and enhances SharePoint’s reach.

Professional Advantage has been delivering process automation and management solutions for over 20 years.

Maximise your effectiveness with SunSystems

Please Join Us

Date:

Melbourne - Tues 23rd March 2010

Venue:

Professional Advantage
Level 10
500 Collins Street
Melbourne VIC

Time:

8:30am – 10:30am

Registration:

Click here to register

Click here to read full agenda

08:30 – 08:45	Registration & Light Breakfast
08:45 – 09:00	Quick upgrade refresher The ground never stands still for technology. Our last inTouch covered the issues and buzz words to listen out for that could result in the need to upgrade SunSystems. A quick refresher with the latest updates will help you understand the potential triggers and the options available to you.
09:00 – 09:30	What’s new in the SunSystems world? Hear some stories from recent projects that have been completed by your peers. We will provide some background to the reasons why various clients have recently upgraded SunSystems or added new modules with a particular focus on the benefits gained and any lessons learnt along the way.
09:30 – 10:00	Continually improving processes Productivity is the catch cry post the GFC. In every day terms for you and me that means doing more work with the people and resources currently available to us. In this session we will talk about, and show examples of, how some of our clients have already driven significant efficiencies within their businesses, increased their compliance for audits and improved activities and processes that reduce the effectiveness of the finance team.
10:00 – 10:30	Q & A