28 May 2010:
Rinedata and SAP: Partnering to Support Public Sector Planning and Consolidation Solutions
Rinedata has been appointed as SAP's Special Expertise Partner in the field of Public Sector planning, budgeting and consolidation solutions. This reflects Rinedata's unique expertise both in understanding the particular complexities of the sector, and in developing solutions using SAP BusinessObjects Planning & Consolidation software.
The pressure on Government bodies and the Public Sector in general to improve the quality and depth of planning and control is immense. The new UK Government is announcing immediate cuts of £6bn in the current financial year, and Departments are expected to face between 15% and 30% reductions in the majority of their programmes. The need for high-quality, easy to deploy and readily integrated planning and reporting systems has never been greater.
Chris Hall, Principal Consultant for Rinedata, says: "It may seem strange that at a time when spending is being squeezed so much that we and SAP are joining up to put new solutions on the market. But in reality a rapid deployment of the tailored planning and consolidation solution we've developed with SAP will eliminate huge amounts of wasteful duplication and manual input, and eliminate the need for having multiple systems to do each task. Here we are providing a one coherent set of tools to cover everything from long-range planning to in-year reporting, with budgeting, business planning and forecasting all together on a single platform."
Ease of deployment has been a key consideration. There's clearly little point embarking on projects that will only deliver results in twelve months or more when the problems are now. So the Planning & Consolidation for Government solution can be deployed 'out of the box' with instantly-available functionality to facilitate an organisation's long-range planning, budgeting, business planning, forecasting, consolidation and reporting requirements. "With minimal configuration it is possible to be using the solution within two months", says Hall. "Yet the design is flexible enough to accommodate extensibility and customisation to a client's specific requirements."
Harry Child, Enterprise Performance Management Lead for Central Government at SAP, says: “Rinedata and SAP BusinessObjects share a common goal and common vision – to deliver superior customer value using pre-packaged 'off-the-shelf' industry content-rich analytical applications. In less than 2 months Rinedata delivered our robust unified solution for Government Planning and Consolidation. Already this solution is being adopted by SAP customers across 4 continents, and featured at SAPPHIRE.”