Infor SunSystems

Avantages

It is a tool with a lot of information that allows us to have a coherent financial management and has allowed me to identify trends and market patterns in different areas that my company is interested in.
It has allowed me to create more convincing material backed by hard data.

Inconvénients

I have not used it much, but I have not found any problems to report.

Avantages

Info SunSystems offers a specific accounting system design that best works for the company.

Inconvénients

It is a good thing that support offers a training but it gets confusing with building a report through Q&A if you’re not so techy with using excel and the system slows down if your reporting data is very heavy.

Avantages

The best feature with this system is the Sun Q&A Excel feature that enables users to work directly in Excel for reporting puroposed rather than connecting to Sun. Easy for GL Account inquiries or AP vendor inquiries.

Inconvénients

Sun itself is really bad-looking. The user interface is truly poorly designed, the system is rather slow and posting entries is really old-school.

Avantages

This software offers the flexibility to be adapted to any organization, especially if the organization is fund accounting oriented.

Inconvénients

Reports is a challenge on this software, like in most of the softwares. Requires supervision for IT team to restart services constantly. The software relays on Microsoft IIS and SQL Reporting services, and some times if those 2 actors, are not configured or tuned up properly, reports can be really challenging.

Avantages

1- Q&A tool built on Microsoft office
2- easy to use Report Manager
3- corporate allocation is one of the best solutions that can be used for Cost allocation on Cost Centers within the same company or across many business units.
4- transaction matching & Reconciliation Manager available and easy to use
5- drill down capabilities on any account.
6- management of all purchasing, inventory and sales processes with out of the box integration with ledger.
7- can analyze any type of transaction on Multi analysis dimensions up to 10 per trans. type
8- budget control on any transaction
9- Business Rule builder that coup with laws and internal policies for transactions also automates Audit.
10- Multi ledger within the same business unit.
11- Security Modules gives extended security and accessibility features that reach field security and access.
12- System Contains a Designer that help you design each user experience within the System and also insert any external app, file or link to be accessed directly from it with out the need to navigate outside
13- System contains transfer desk that enables the user to import and export data from other systems in different formats and with validation rules that can be amended each time you use it

Inconvénients

1- System does manage asset registry but maintenance and asset tracking is not present inside of it.
2- integrations with other apps needs the purchase of another platform (Infor ION).
3- Budget creation can be managed from the system but planning needs another app.
4- automatic transaction matching cannot handle partial matching so the amounts needs to be the exact same with no difference or tolerance.
5- user journal entry transaction screen is very hard to use for normal user so they use the Q&A Excel add on to fasten and ease the entry process specially for bulk transactions.

Avantages

The general ledger is easy to use and the Q&A excel interface is very powerful for data going into and out of the ledgers. Using the cloud offering is great because it includes all the modules, allowing a know cost when expanding the use of the wider system.

Inconvénients

It is very customisable so specifying this can be tricky. It is worth using somebody that knows the system very well to ensure it's set up correctly from the beginning.

Avantages

Sunsystem has a good interactive interface, and easy to go with shortcut functions
it is easy to use
It can be operated within a web base on any laptop from a remote location
Data upload using info Q&A is easy
High level of guaranteed security and access must be provided to enable access

Inconvénients

Although it allows keeping of fixed asset register, it does not permit tracking of asset as well as maintenance

To enable integration from other app there is a need to purchase another platform

Avantages

Its easy to use once trained; provides an interactive interface and offers users a wide range of functionalities. It has the Q&A function for Excel that enables users to interact with the system using Excel. I can design reports and extract financial transactions in Excel using the Infor Q&A. I can easily extract Financial reports from the system just by clicking a button in Excel (linked Infor definition). It provides an easy interface to create and amend the Chart of accounts and set up mandatory codes to avoid wrong coding.

Inconvénients

The Infor Q&A sometimes runs very slow in Excel and delays the generation and completion of reports.

Avantages

Software is stable, easy to access and performs all core Accounting functions. It's also great that Sun Systems is able to be customized the third party software. That feature helped us a lot.

Inconvénients

Product is not user friendly. This software is not good for high volume Accounting office. To many clicks to get what is needed and not all reports are able to be exported or customized.

Avantages

Great functionality for reports customisation. Vision upload cuts workload across the business from end user.

Inconvénients

The F1 help functionality is not detailed, training has additional cost involved. There no manual for the system all is done via one to one training.

Avantages

Its very integrated for most accounting application and also it allow for prompting errors alerts for users

Inconvénients

Won't integrates for weight variations at charging points and needs to be able to handle more cash variablees.

Avantages

It has a powerful tool for reporting with consolidation and ability to re-design its details and style based on users perspective.