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Summary of Reports

 Agresso

 BasWare

 Britannia Software

 Chorus

 Comshare

 Exchequer Software

 Frango

 Geac

 Hyperion

 Index

 Lawson

 LSA Solutions

 Navision

 OpenAccounts

 Oracle

 PS Financials

 Sage

 SAP

 Scala Business Solutions

 SquareSum

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Management Briefings

 Market Overview & Analysis | Part 2 | Part 3

 Market Overview & Analysis: Expert Opinion

 View from the Top | Part 2

 Management Issues | Part 2

 Future Trends | Part 2

 Euro | Part 2

 Implementation Issues | Part 2

 Innovation | Part 2

 System Selection | Part 2

 Case Study

Financial & Accounting Systems (April 2002) Summary

Financial and accounting systems play a curious role in an economic downturn: companies use them to gain the management information that is likely to encourage their managers not to invest in new IT systems, including financial and accounting ones.

That produces a contradictory requirement: to keep the financial systems working well, but minimise the investment until the economy picks up.

As a result, our research article shows that many organisations are getting into the habit of tweaking their F&A systems, introducing piecemeal upgrades without lavishing large upfront capital on major system replacement projects.

Other pressures are being brought to bear in this market, as our management briefing articles show. Wendy Haylock of BASDA describes how UK companies can equip themselves for the euro’s recent introduction in continental Europe and its possible introduction here – again without heavy capital expenditure.

Conspectus 2002

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