Scattered accounting information and multiple sources of "Truth".

Everyday there are more and more IT tools at our disposal, mergers, acquisitions, transactional systems ... All these make the Organization's Systems map more and more diverse, dispersing data origins and logic all around that map ... 

These are some examples of the scenarios that companies must daily deal with, long manual period closure processes, often with the need to involve IT personnel, and with high maintenance complexity.

• Multi system environments, companies with high complexity of transactional systems that do not generate accounting, or if they do, they do not follow the accounting standards defined by the organization and must be manually modified.

• Accounting information that comes from legacy systems that must be integrated into the accounting of the parent company.

 • Accounting rules so that transactions are in accordance with Company accounting policies.

• Creation of auxiliar accounting for different and disconnected transactional systems.

• Need for traceability of the accounting information from the general ledger entry to the auxiliary books to obtain the origin of the accounting movements 

• Requirements to extend the analysis of the information with supporting reference dimensions as business requirements evolve without adding extra complexity to the structure of accounting accounts.

 Add to all of this the difficulty to maintain a consistency in the criteria of information transformation, due to the human factor that has to process those changes, and we can see that it is not a simple task.

Tools at hand.

From this environment emerges the Oracle solution for this integration, the Accounting Hub, the Oracle accounting engine. 

The need for integration of the multiple systems of origin that Oracle has been incorporating into its suite, due to the successful policy of application acquisitions in the financial world, has evolved into an accounting engine to which all the auxiliary modules send their transactional information, invoices received, issued, payments, fixed assets, etc.

It is here, in the Accounting Hub where:

• Policies are defined.

• The transformation rules are created.

• Accounting information is generated.

The Accounting Hub is responsible for creating the accounting entries based on the established rules, even if it is necessary, it is able to represent that information in multiple formats, for different set of books due to different legal and regulatory needs. Everything from a single origin and at one time.

 Evolution to the cloud.

 The paradigm shift occurred in December 2017 when Oracle released the product as Software as a Service (SaaS) in the cloud, creating the FAHCS, the Accounting Hub service.

 The Accounting Hub allows us to begin our transformation to the cloud in an efficient way, through payment per use without the need of large initial investments, integrating the solution in our day to day in a simple way.

 All this is done without the need to migrate our current ERP, we only use the service to benefit from the best, most robust and powerful accounting engine in the market, the process captures the information from our existing systems, transforms it, and returns it to our ERP.

 • Traceability.

• Consistency

• Ease of use.

 Entrust Consultores has the hands on experience of several successful cases of implementation of the Accounting Hub on premise in important financial companies and has confirmed the advantages of the use of this centralized accounting engine, with these results: 

• Reduction of man working hours.

• Improvement on the quality of the information introduced in the system.

• Higher quality of the data and therefore of the decisions based on it.

 Basically, we have seen how the Accounting Hub has made life easier for the financial department.

 Based on this knowledge, Entrust Consultores has developed a solution that takes the Accounting Hub one step further. The ECAI, EC Accounting Integrator, complements and extends the functionality of the Accounting Hub with a solution that:

• Streamlines implementation

• Automates the pretreatment of the source data.

• Enriches information including origins, support references, etc.

• Treats the dimensions of the data for its correct transformation.

• Normalizes the data and the management of possible errors in data transfers.

• Automates data transfers.

• Provides more advanced control and management.

 The efficiency of the deployment of the solution is maximized by the Accounting Hub's own philosophy that allows us to roll out the system in cycles. 

It facilitates the integration of the systems in phases, verifying the correct functioning of the system on each cycle, learning from each implementation, thus improving on each of them at the study and implementation phase making a better cycle every time. 

This trip can end up here, or, it could continue towards the Oracle ERP as a service once the advantages of the cloud have been discovered... but I will stop here, leaving that transition for another day... 

The combination of ECAI plus Accounting Hub in the cloud as a service is the platform that will help us in the transition towards the cloud, because the approach is not if we go to the cloud or not, but "WHEN". 

Entrust Consultores will be happy to accompany you on your evolution to the cloud.

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