| Targeted to medium and large companies with $50 Million
to $1 Billion in revenues. Global. One of the key strengths of SunSystems
is in their international coverage. They have all the functionality (multilingual
– 30 languages, multi-currency…) to operate in over 190 countries. They take a
decentralized approach and they have people servicing all of these countries locally.
They have been successful in offering large companies with systems such as SAP
in their head office the ability to implement a fast and relatively inexpensive
solution to all of their locations throughout the world. Transactional
Analysis. Transaction codes can be attached to transactions so that you can
slice and dice information across multiple dimensions. Many other products force
you to create a complex general ledger structure to get similar reporting capability.
There are up to 10 transaction codes for each analyzable entity such as customer
Single Integrated Ledger. One ledger holds all financial transactions
including general ledger, sales and purchase ledger, project ledger, cashbook
and user-defined ledgers. Business Performance Management / BI. SunSystems
is one of the few accounting systems to include integrated BI and BPM. Reporting
and analytics are provided through Lasata (F9 and Vision products) which was acquired
in May 2004. BPM and custom BI(this also includes Consolidation, Risk Management
and Balance Scorecards) are based on the MIS AG solutions, MIS AG was acquired
in October 2003. The BPM/BI division is also a "free standing" group
within Systems Union.
Reconciliation Facility. Built in way
to reconcile clearing accounts by matching offsetting entries.. Commitment
Accounting. Commitment accounting includes controls to check for over budget
PO's - good for Not for Profits. Allocations. Support for apportioned
and fixed percentage allocations.. Inter-company processing. With
automatic balancing of inter company ledgers.. User interface. Includes
grid view, panel view or both. Databases Supported. Microsoft SQL
Server (65% of implementations) and Oracle (30% of implementations) and Btrieve
(5% of implementations). Extensive Functionality. SunSystems also
offers Credit Management, Distribution, Business Intelligence, and Professional
Services Automation. | 
