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Financial Software Industry - Key drivers

Thursday 14th June, 2007
The Trafalgar (Hilton), London

This event is FREE for Consultants.

The financial software industry is rapidly consolidating. This, combined with the ever changing technology and regulatory landscape, presents the enterprise-market with the challenge of ensuring their finance systems do not become obsolete and continue to support their business in the longer-term.

This briefing examines the key drivers in the financial software market and how enterprise-level companies should prepare to address them.

In particular we will be focussing on;

Financial and non-Financial reporting and analytics - how can software tools help enterprises with more frequent reporting cycles, the introduction of European reporting standards, reporting of non-financial indicators (corporate social responsibility, human capital) and the new EU Transparency Directive?
Compliance - the quest for one version of the truth. We look at how achieving compliance can be simplified and controlled.
Technology drivers - we look at how companies are effecting enhanced communication and collaboration within the organisation through "roles-based" processing, workflow technology and tighter integration with Microsoft Office technologies.
ERP Systems - as the restraining effect of their early decisions to invest in ERP systems dawns on the companies that use them, they are struggling to keep the finance part up-to-date, and finding that it is not an ideal platform upon which to add Business Intelligence, Analysis and the Control solutions they need today. So what are the alternatives and how do companies avoid complete reinvestment?
Market consolidation - Where will it stop? We take a look at the market and in particular the different kinds of suppliers that consolidation has brought - large portfolio players vs specialist providers.

This facing the future roundtable event is free for Consultants.

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