Financial Software: why Joined-up systems are best

Business systems today aim to be comprehensive across all functions

One of the perennial mantras in the marketing of business software, especially financial systems and ERP, has been ‘joined up,’ that old primary school handwriting phrase. It was and is also used in attempting to differentiate enterprise systems from mere business applications. It is certainly essential today that all systems in any organisation can at least talk to each other and exchange data. For obvious reasons, that would apply especially to financial and ...