ERP for Accounting and Financial Processes in Business
For companies operating in structured, international environments, efficient management of accounting and financial processes is a strategic priority.
SOME offers Infor SunSystems, a complete and flexible solution designed to meet the needs of control, compliance, and reporting in complex and multinational organizations.
Infor SunSystems
ERP for Accounting and Financial Management
Infor SunSystems is a solution designed for medium and large enterprises, supporting financial analysis and accounting control processes.
Financial management within SunSystems enables organizations to handle complex, multi-entity structures and international operations, ensuring accuracy, control, and consistency of financial data.
By integrating accounting, finance, and general ledger processes into a single system, Infor SunSystems provides advanced reporting capabilities and supports both local and global financial requirements. It offers a powerful and easy-to-use tool for importing, exporting, and analyzing financial data.
Why choose Infor SunSystems
SOME offers the Infor SunSystems solution, a leading Financial Management System (FMS) ERP software designed to deliver maximum flexibility, accounting automation, and real-time analytics.
It is ideal for complex organizations and multinational enterprises that require robust financial control across multiple entities and geographies.
Built on a cloud-based architecture, SunSystems streamlines financial processes, provides advanced reporting capabilities, and supports multi-currency and multi-company management, enabling organizations to drive digital transformation with a fast return on investment (ROI).
Key Features of Infor SunSystems:
- Advanced Financial Management: Includes a unified general ledger, fixed asset management, and powerful automation of the procurement cycle (Requisition to Pay), ensuring full control and efficiency across financial operations.
- Real-Time Analytics: Leverages Infor Query & Analysis (Q&A) to extract real-time data and build customized reports directly within Microsoft Excel, enabling faster and more informed decision-making.
- Flexibility and Scalability: A modern, cloud-native architecture that easily adapts to changes in business processes, organizational growth, and international expansion.
- Integration and Connectivity: Seamlessly integrates through Infor OS and Infor ION with other enterprise applications, ensuring consistent data sharing across global operations.
- Compliance and Security: Simplifies compliance with both local and international regulations, improving cost control and reducing financial and operational risks.
- Cloud Accessibility: The SunSystems Cloud version ensures high-level security and allows access to financial data from anywhere, eliminating the need for complex on-premise IT infrastructure.
Infor FMS SunSystems optimizes the efficiency of daily operations, ensuring accurate data entry in compliance with different business rules. It also enables companies to integrate local and international applications throughout their entire lifecycle. In this way, SunSystems becomes the organization’s central data repository, while maintaining its control capabilities and high flexibility and adaptability.
Infor FMS SunSystems is a key tool for building a robust financial management system.
Reducing non-operational departmental costs and improving service levels and transparency are critical success factors, especially for finance departments.
The SunSystems FMS solution provides a stable foundation for the growth of these departments, enabling management to maintain day-to-day control over all aspects of the business.
Industry sectors
SunSystems Corporate Financial Management is the ideal solution to optimize financial management for any organization: it reduces transaction costs and accelerates processes, ensuring data consistency with the company’s core business and improving overall financial transparency.
With over 30 years of experience, SunSystems has enhanced enterprise financial platforms by improving usability and developing new functionalities designed to maximize productivity and performance. SunSystems is a highly scalable and adaptable management system that reduces errors and data processing times while improving visibility and both internal and external collaboration.
Thanks to its integration capabilities and rich functionality, this tool enhances the overall efficiency of every organization.
Oil & Gas Industry
Infor SunSystems is a Financial Management System (FMS) solution widely used in the Oil & Gas sector due to its ability to manage complex organizational structures, international operations, and strict reporting requirements.
Key capabilities for Oil & Gas
The system is designed to address the specific challenges of the energy sector, including:
- Joint Venture and Asset Management: It enables cost tracking at the level of individual wells or extraction blocks, facilitating the allocation of operational expenses among partners.
- Multi-currency and Multi-company Accounting: Supports operations across multiple currencies and tax jurisdictions, consolidating financial data in real time to provide a global business view.
- Joint Venture Management/JIB (Joint Interest Billing): SunSystems automates Joint Interest Billing processes (JIB), distributing costs among partners according to their ownership percentages.
- AFE (Authorization for Expenditure) Control: Allows real-time monitoring of actual expenses against approved project budgets (e.g., wells or fields), improving cost control and recovery processes.
- Cost Recovery Management: Enables tracking of recoverable and non-recoverable costs, which is essential in Production Sharing Agreements (PSA).
The Corporate Allocations module is designed to automate cost distribution, making it ideal for joint ventures and exploration and drilling projects.
Cost Analysis and Budgeting: Includes tools for automating purchase-to-pay processes and advanced financial forecasting capabilities to manage commodity price volatility.
- Infor SunSystems enables companies to convert operating expenses (OPEX) and capital expenditures (CAPEX) into accurate partner billing, improving cash flow and contractual compliance
- Integration with Operational Systems: Thanks to the Infor ION platform, it easily integrates with third-party software for production management, logistics, and asset maintenance.
Benefits for Energy Companies
Energy organizations choose SunSystems for several strategic reasons:
- Operational Agility: The ability to quickly configure new business units or integrate new assets is essential for dynamic growth.
- Transparency and Reporting: Provides detailed reporting to meet regulatory requirements and investor expectations, reducing reliance on error-prone spreadsheets.
- Cloud-Native Platform: The SunSystems Cloud version ensures high security and global accessibility, allowing both field teams and headquarters to work on the same platform.
Non-Profit Organizations
Infor SunSystems is a market-leading ERP solution, widely used in the Non-Profit sector (charities, NGOs, associations) for financial and accounting management, thanks to its ability to handle complex organizational structures and track donations.
Key Features for the Non-Profit sector
- Transparency and Multi-Dimensional Analysis: SunSystems offers up to ten flexible analysis dimensions that can be assigned to each individual transaction. This enables detailed tracking of departments, donors, projects, budget lines, campaigns, and regions.
- Fund and Donor Management: The solution is designed to meet the specific reporting requirements of non-profit organizations, facilitating resource traceability and regulatory compliance.
- Infor SunSystems Cloud: Available in SaaS (Software as a Service) mode, it is a secure and scalable solution that enables more efficient financial and data management while reducing the need for internal IT infrastructure.
- Process Automation (Corporate Allocation): Enables automated allocation of costs and expenses across different cost centers or organizational units, supporting the distribution of indirect costs across projects.
- ION Integration: The Infor ION (Intelligent Open Network) platform allows SunSystems to integrate with other systems (including third-party applications), eliminating information silos.
Benefits for Organizations
- Transparency and Reporting: Ability to generate detailed donor reports, clearly showing how funds are allocated and spent.
- Compliance: Supports audit requirements and local regulations, a critical aspect for maintaining non-profit status.
- Operational Efficiency: Reduces administrative workload by automating reconciliation and period-end closing processes.
Professional Services
Infor SunSystems is a powerful and flexible ERP solution designed for professional services companies, enabling the integration of financial accounting with operational management. It provides tools for project management, margin control, billing, and resource management, improving efficiency and cash flow.
Key Features for the Services sector:
- Advanced Project Management: Infor Professional Services Automation suite enables the connection of financial data, time tracking, expenses, and billing, providing a clear view of margins for each project.
- Process Automation: Automates project accounting and resource management, increasing productivity and improving staff utilization.
- Deployment Flexibility: Available in cloud, on-premise, or hybrid models, adapting to the organization’s infrastructure needs.
- Integrated Accounting: Infor SunSystems is recognized for its strong accounting foundation, ideal for companies requiring complex financial reporting.
Benefits for Organizations
- Multi-Dimensional Analysis: Enables highly detailed monitoring of costs and revenues by project, assignment, employee, client, or department.
- Multi-Currency Management: Ideal for consulting firms or international professional services organizations, thanks to advanced multi-currency capabilities that handle exchange rates and complex consolidations.
- PSA Integration: Easily integrates with Professional Services Automation (PSA) systems to connect project management with billing and general accounting.
- Operational Efficiency: Centralizes financial processes, reduces manual data entry, and improves the accuracy of management reporting.
Hospitality
Infor SunSystems is a global financial management solution.
Infor SunSystems is a leading ERP solution in the hospitality industry, widely recognized for its ability to ensure compliance with USALI (Uniform System of Accounts for the Lodging Industry) standards. It is extensively used in the hospitality sector to centralize accounting for individual properties or large international hotel chains.
Thanks to its flexible architecture, it enables automatic financial data consolidation across multiple departments and properties, ensuring accurate and timely reporting.
- Chart of Accounts Structure: SunSystems allows the configuration of the chart of accounts in line with USALI guidelines, enabling accurate categorization of revenues and costs by operating departments (rooms, F&B, etc.) and support departments.
- Automated Consolidation: Essential for hotel groups, it automatically aggregates financial data, ensuring that information is consistent, compliant, and up to date.
- Integration with PMS and POS systems: Directly connects with property management systems (such as Infor HMS and Opera) and point-of-sale systems to automate financial data flows.
- Multi-Dimensional Analysis: Enables data analysis by cost center, revenue type, event, employee, or individual hotel property.
- Infor Q&A (Reporting): An Excel add-in that extracts real-time data to create customized financial reports, profit and loss statements, and allows journal uploads directly into the system.
- Multi-Currency and Multi-Company Management: Ideal for hotel groups operating across multiple countries, enabling fast consolidation and compliance with local regulations.
- Real-time visibility: Allows management to instantly monitor the financial performance of each hotel within the group.
- Data accuracy: Reduces manual errors by automating the import of daily transactions from hotel operational systems.
- Scalability: Supports business growth, allowing new properties to be added without changing the software platform.
Financial Services
- Advanced Financial Management: Provides tools for general ledger accounting, fixed assets, accounts payable and receivable, with strong control over costs and revenues.
- Real-Time Reporting and Analysis: Through Infor Q&A (Vision), integrated with Excel, it enables the creation of detailed financial reports, budget monitoring, and variance analysis against actual results.
- Compliance and Internationalization: Ideal for companies with international operations, supporting multi-language, multi-company environments and complex tax localizations, ensuring compliance with different regulatory frameworks.
- Integration and Automation (ION): With the Infor10 ION Suite, SunSystems easily integrates with other enterprise applications, enabling workflow automation and seamless data exchange.
- Deployment Models: Available in Cloud for greater agility and reduced infrastructure costs, or on-premise for organizations requiring local hosting.
- Multi-Dimensional Analysis: Uses a Unified Ledger that enables real-time data analysis without the need to reconcile separate modules.
- Multi-Currency and Multi-Entity Management: Supports operations across multiple currencies and tax jurisdictions, making it ideal for international financial institutions.
- Flexible Integration: Easily connects to external banking systems or third-party software via the Infor ION platform, eliminating information silos.
- Compliance and Audit: Ensures high standards of internal control and traceability, essential to meet regulatory requirements in banking and insurance sectors.
Energy and Utilities
Key Features for the sector
- Multi-company and Multi-currency Management: Enables easy consolidation of financial data across different legal entities or operational sites, handling transactions in multiple currencies with up-to-date exchange rates.
- Dimensional Analysis: Uses a “smart coding” structure that allows cost analysis by project, asset (e.g., turbine, solar plant), cost center, or geographic area without overcomplicating the chart of accounts.
- Integration with Operational Systems: Integrates with industry-specific software (such as billing or asset management systems) to unify financial and operational data into a single source of truth.
- Compliance and Reporting: Facilitates compliance with local and international regulations (such as IFRS) and supports the generation of detailed reports for stakeholders and regulatory authorities.
Specific benefits for Energy & Utilities
- Asset Monitoring: Essential for asset-intensive organizations, it enables full financial lifecycle tracking of infrastructure and related depreciation.
- Cloud Scalability: Available as Infor SunSystems Cloud (SaaS), ensuring security and accessibility for teams operating across remote sites.
- Real-Time Visibility: Provides immediate insights into cash flows and financial performance of individual energy projects, improving decision-making processes.
Key features of Infor SunSystems
Infor SunSystems has evolved into a cloud-native platform within the Infor OS ecosystem, integrating advanced tools such as Infor ION and Data Fabric for data management and analytics.
Infor OS (Operating Service) is the technological backbone that unifies all Infor applications.
- Cloud Platform: Infor SunSystems Cloud is a multi-tenant SaaS solution running on Amazon Web Services (AWS) infrastructure.
- Single Sign-On (SSO): Allows users to access SunSystems, Data Fabric, and other applications using a single set of credentials.
- User Interface: Provides a modern UX with customizable dashboards and widgets directly integrated from SunSystems.
Vision Q&A is essential for SunSystems users, enabling real-time reporting and data extraction capabilities.
Vision Q&A consists of several components:
- Q&A Executive for cell-based reporting
- Q&A XL for data export to Excel
- Q&A Word Query & Analysis for data extraction in Word
- Q&A Alert for report scheduling and distribution
- Q&A Budget Management for budgeting process control
- Q&A NetEnterprise for web-based report distribution
- Q&A Financial Reporting for extracting data in ASCII format and from ODBC sources
- Q&A Maintenance for client and server management
- Q&A Update Datalink for updating database definitions
Infor ION: The integration between Infor SunSystems and Infor ION (Intelligent Open Network) enables the financial management system to connect with other applications, automating workflows and data sharing.
Caratteristiche principali
- Application Integration: Easily connects ERP, CRM, and external applications (such as Salesforce or SAP) using open standards like XML.
- Process Management (Workflow): Enables automated workflows, approvals, and custom alerts without the need for complex programming.
- Business Event Management: Monitors business events in real time, sending automatic notifications in case of exceptions or critical issues.
- Open Architecture: Inspired by internet architecture to provide long-term flexibility and sustainability, supporting cloud, on-premise, or hybrid deployments.
Strumenti inclusi
- ION Desk: A browser-based interface used by administrators to configure, manage, and monitor all services and connections.
- ION Connect: A module dedicated to business document transfer and data mapping across different formats.
- API Gateway: Manages APIs to securely connect data flows between cloud and on-premise applications.
In sintesi, Infor ION enables greater business agility, allowing teams to make faster decisions thanks to access to integrated, real-time updated information.
Infor Query & Analysis, formerly known as Vision, is the integrated Business Intelligence and reporting module for the Infor SunSystems ERP software. It enables users to extract, analyze, and visualize financial and operational data in real time, primarily using Microsoft Excel as the interface.
Here are the key details about Infor Q&A for SunSystems:
- Key Features: It provides advanced reporting tools, ad-hoc analysis, drill-down capabilities, and graphical visualization to identify trends and anomalies.
- Excel Integration: It allows data to be extracted from SunSystems directly into Excel, enabling the creation of dynamic and formatted reports.
- Ease of Use: Designed for both technical users and non-technical finance professionals, enabling data analysis without requiring complex IT skills.
- Versatility: Supports multi-language and multi-currency reporting, aligning with SunSystems’ international capabilities.
- Evolution: Q&A12 is the modern, cloud-ready version that integrates the functionalities of the former Q&A Executive.
In summary, Infor Q&A transforms raw financial data from SunSystems into strategic business information for decision-making, offering a powerful and flexible analytics tool.
Infor EPM Enterprise Performance Management (EPM) is an integrated platform designed to modernize and centralize a company’s planning, budgeting, forecasting, and financial analysis processes.
The system acts as a bridge between business strategy and operational execution, consolidating data from multiple sources (such as ERP systems, HR systems, and spreadsheets) into a single shared “source of truth.”
Functional Capabilities
- Reporting and Dashboards: Infor EPM transforms raw SunSystems data into interactive visual dashboards (KPIs, bar charts, pie charts) accessible via web or mobile devices.
- Planning and Budgeting: It enables the creation of financial forecasting models and operational budgets based on historical data stored in SunSystems.
- Financial Consolidation: It streamlines monthly and annual closing processes by aggregating data from multiple SunSystems instances or external systems through Infor ION technology.
- Self-Service Analytics: Users can generate ad-hoc reports without technical expertise, using filters and dimensions to explore account or supplier hierarchies.
Infor Data Fabric is a cloud-native data platform designed to centralize and manage the vast amounts of information generated by Infor CloudSuite applications and third-party systems.
It functions as a unified ecosystem that connects disparate data sources, providing tools for large-scale data storage, querying, and processing.
Core Components and Functionalities
The platform is built on a two-layer architecture: storage and compute.
- Infor Data Lake: The core of the platform. It is a scalable repository that stores real-time data in raw or semi-structured formats.
- Compass: A SQL query platform that enables users to explore and extract data from the Data Lake using complex queries and by creating relational views.
- Stream Pipelines: Enable real-time data distribution to external systems (such as Snowflake) or customer-managed relational databases.
- Atlas: An integrated tool for visual exploration of data objects.
IFR (Italian Fiscal Requirements) for SunSystems is a solution developed by SOME Srl to adapt the international financial management software Infor SunSystems to the complex Italian tax regulations.
Key Features of IFR for SunSystems:
- VAT Management: Includes monthly or quarterly VAT balance management, annual VAT settlement, and VAT advance calculation.
- VAT Registers: Configuration and printing of VAT registers, management of tax codes, and classification of fiscal documents (Tax Box/Type/Liability).
- Electronic Invoicing: IFR manages the entire compliance workflow required by the Italian Revenue Agency (Agenzia delle Entrate).
- Local Adaptation: Enables SunSystems, an international ERP, to comply with mandatory Italian regulatory requirements.
- Archiving and Reprinting: Dedicated functionality for digital document archiving and document reprinting.
This solution ensures full regulatory compliance (compliance) required to operate SunSystems within the Italian administrative and fiscal context.
Infor iPOS Procurement is a web-based e-procurement solution, accredited and natively integrated with Infor SunSystems. It automates the entire procure-to-pay cycle (from requisition to payment), managing catalogs, approvals, and budget control, with real-time integration that provides full visibility and spending control while reducing unauthorized purchases.
Key Features of iPOS Procurement:
- Real-Time Integration: Unlike other systems, iPOS is not simply “interfaced” but fully integrated with Infor SunSystems ledgers, ensuring data is always accurate and updated in real time.
- Spend Control: Helps prevent maverick purchasing by enforcing predefined approval workflows.
- Approval Workflow: Includes flexible workflow engines to manage complex approval hierarchies, also accessible via mobile devices.
- Visibility and Audit: Provides full traceability of every transaction, simplifying audit processes and improving reporting on company liabilities.
Infor Document Management (IDM): is an end-to-end document management solution designed to integrate with Infor ERP systems. It acts as a central repository for all business documents, enabling organizations to store, secure, and track files across the entire enterprise.
Key Features
- Central Repository: Secure storage of reports, forms, and business files in a single centralized location.
- Contextual Integration: Through dedicated widgets, IDM displays relevant documents linked to the record the user is viewing within the ERP (e.g., viewing a purchase order while accessing supplier master data).
- Lifecycle Management: Includes version control and retention policies to automatically remove obsolete documents when required.
- Output Management: Enables the creation of PDF documents using customizable templates that extract data directly from Infor CloudSuite applications.
Mobile Accessibility: A dedicated app allows users to upload and access documents also from mobile devices.
Infor HMS (Hospitality Management Solution) is a cloud-based hotel property management system (PMS) designed specifically for hotels, resorts, and casinos. Developed by Infor, the software centralizes operations to improve efficiency and deliver a more personalized guest experience.
Key Features
- Cloud-Native Management: Built on a secure multi-tenant architecture hosted on Amazon Web Services (AWS), ensuring automatic updates and scalability.
- Mobile Guest Experience: Supports contactless check-in/check-out and in-room or on-demand service ordering directly from guests’ mobile devices.
- Operational Modules: Includes tools for front desk management, reservations (CRS), accounts receivable, and group sales.
- Infor HMS Housekeeper: A dedicated app that allows housekeeping staff to view assigned room lists and update room status in real time.
- Customization: Enables the creation of guest-specific packages and customizable screen layouts to adapt to different operational workflows.
Infor Sales & Event Management: also known as Infor Sales & Catering Solution, is a cloud-based platform designed to automate the entire lifecycle of an event.
The software is specifically built for the hospitality sector, including hotels, resorts, convention centers, stadiums, and restaurants.
Key Features
- End-to-End Management: Automates every stage of the process, from initial inquiry to final invoicing, including booking and event execution.
- Space Optimization: Provides a complete view of event space inventory across multiple properties, allowing filtering by date, location, and capacity.
- Cloud Integration: Integrates with other essential systems such as Property Management Systems (PMS) for hotels, POS systems, and revenue management solutions.
- Document Automation: Enables fast generation of proposals, contracts, and Banquet Event Orders (BEO), with support for electronic signatures and online payments.
- Analytics and Reporting: Includes customizable dashboards to monitor business performance, forecast revenue, and analyze profitability.
Infor Revenue Management: This solution is designed specifically for hotels and resorts of all sizes, from boutique properties to large international chains.
- Intelligent Demand Forecasting: Uses deep learning algorithms to analyze historical data and predict future occupancy levels and purchasing patterns.
- Dynamic Pricing: Suggests optimal daily rates per room type and distribution channel, supporting methodologies such as continuous pricing and Best Available Rate (BAR).
- Flexible Automation: Users can choose between manual, semi-automated, or fully automated pricing updates.
- Multi-Dimensional Optimization: Extends revenue management beyond rooms to additional revenue centers such as event spaces, F&B outlets, and ancillary services.
- PMS Integration: Natively connects with Property Management Systems (PMS) for real-time data streaming.
Infor Hospitality Analytics: is an advanced Business Intelligence (BI) solution designed specifically for the hospitality and food & beverage industry.
Key Features
The platform helps hotel and resort managers transform operational data into strategic decisions through:
- Integration with Infor HMS: Natively connects to the Hospitality Management Solution (Infor HMS) to analyze reservations, revenue, and guest profiles.
- KPI Monitoring: Provides dashboards to track key performance indicators such as RevPAR (Revenue per Available Room), ADR (Average Daily Rate), and occupancy rate.
- Infor Birst Technology: Leverages the Infor Birst platform to deliver predictive analytics and automated cloud-based reporting.
- Customization: Allows users to create tailored reports for budgeting, financial performance, and customer loyalty analysis.