13 YOuR SuppLIER for InnOvaTIvE and ERp-IndEpEndEnT finance SOLuTIOnS perfection In detail.
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3 About Cogon Your Supplier for innovative and ERp-independent Finance solutions The name cogon, derived from Latin cogitare (to think), is a clear statement tied to the highest aspirations: We see ourselves as a creative force and trailblazer for the development of innovative and comprehensive solutions for finance and accounting in organizations of any size. With a focus on the optimization and professionalization of finance processes, we have been realizing real business values for our customers for more than 10 years. In each phase of a project, we support our customers as a reliable partner from banking and technical consulting to the realization in the organization s system environment. We only recommend solutions that meet your needs and that can also be flexibly adjusted to your future requirements. Reliability also means to not only keep an eye on current finance and accounting developments, but on future ones as well. On this basis, we continuously adapt our products to the legal and regulatory requirements in the markets. The comprehensive view of all payment process aspects in organizations guarantees a high degree of investment security to our customers. Our expertise: Expert advice: In cooperation with you, we analyze your actual status and develop optimization approaches around your payment processes. The effective linking of available and new IT structures brings about additional synergy potentials. Innovative solutions: Our modular portfolio, depending on the scope of services and functionalities, provides a fully automated and professional execution of payment processes. Optional add-ons are available for you to perfectly adjust the systems to yours specific requirements. Comprehensive service: Our customers appreciate our support expertise for both technical and banking issues when launching the system (i.e., implementation, integration, set-up and training) or whenever needed. We create noticeable business values for our customers with our comprehensive system solutions on the basis of visionary technologies. Frank Gastl Managing Director cogon GmbH
4 Our Innovative Drive The success and the innovative drive of all our solutions are based on one important foundation: our staff. Thanks to our experienced and specialized experts we can guarantee, next to comprehen sive best practice services, outstanding quality through in-depth expert know-how, high motivation due to extraordinary successes and long-time experience of our development, consulting and project teams. "The innovative potential of our solutions is based on our approach to see and understand finance and accounting challenges from the perspective of our customers. Frank Gastl Managing Director cogon GmbH As we develop our solutions ourselves, our customers profit from our extensive knowledge of technologies and systems. It guarantees optimum consulting, support and realization in each project phase. Therefore, innovation is not only a technical issue for us, but it also places very particular demands on the quality of what we have been known for over the years: outstanding products coupled with efficient service. Flexibility through a modular and extendable scope of services, a quick and easy integration in existing system landscapes and the consideration of cuttingedge technologies these features differentiate our solutions from other available systems on the market. With our solutions we have not only convinced our customers, but also independent panels of experts. Several awards prove the innovative quality of our solutions.
5 Your Requirements finances are a sensitive issue in every organization. They require particularly secure and stable processes. Complex corporate and process structures especially require a reliable and intelligent system as a central steering unit. Only then corporate cash flows can be managed and controlled effectively. Every organization faces a multitude of requirements, such as process security and compatibility with auditing requirements, documentation requirements and protection against the manipulation of sensitive data. Optimizing the necessary IT infrastructure for this means for us, particularly, to intelligently link the different sources of financially relevant data that are often stored in independent systems. One important aspect for the IT infrastructure is data security. neither inside the group nor externally, payments and data flows should be visible for every one. Hence, specific authorization structures and client capabilities protect this information throughout. The key factor for business success is the organization of complex processes. What is important here is the need to ensure the highest possible degree of automation of recurring procedures in order to create greater freedom of action. By defining and executing well-structured processes in your systems, such as time- and event-controlled tasks, you significantly reduce the time and costs for those tasks and minimize potential sources for errors. The optimization of business processes also includes the standardization of decentralized cash flows and finance processes as a transparent basis for the management, control and planning: a central process control you can trust. for payments, it is especially important to multinational organizations that the correct formats are supported, e.g., SWIfT or SEpa formats. Here, an adept partner is required who has the necessary knowledge and the experience in banking and system technology to offer the right solution package for the individual requirements. When every participant in the overall process knows exactly what to do, any misunderstandings, errors and damaging delays are avoided. Hence, our solutions ensure full data transparency and thus the traceability of all financial processes. "With cogon, we have a competent and reliable partner on our side when it comes to efficient payment processing. Jürgen Heinrich, Management Local Data Processing Baden-Franken, Department Innovation
6 Our Solutions Our customers diverse and complex process requirements always demand suitable and efficient solutions that, on the one hand, mirror their specific organizational structure and, on the other hand, have a manageable scope of investment and time frame. In each of our solutions, the expertise of more than 10 years development and optimization of solutions for finance and accounting can be found. Due to this experience, we are in the position to take the different aspects and requirements of an organization in terms of finance and accounting into account and to provide the best possible solution. This customized approach is supported by the modular structure of our system solutions. You select the products and modules that match your organization s requirements, we provide the consulting and support from the start with our banking and technical know-how. The result is an optimized solution, perfectly tailored to your organization s needs. The quick and easy integration of our solutions into your existing system landscape is a given. Cash Management In-house Banking Netting Liquidity Management Treasury Management Cash, Liquidity & Treasury Management Payment Management Electronic Banking National and International Payment Transactions Bank Communication Conversion of Payment Formats SEPA Mandate Management Reconciliation Management Reconciliation of Bank Statements Reconciliation of Remittance Advices Reconciliation of Foreign Exchange Information
7 Our Customers finance processes affect everyone. Thus, our customers come from all industries from retail, energy and media enterprises to real estate businesses. Each customer has it s specific starting situation and framework, for example, highly complex business structures or the necessity to link independent finance and accounting processes of multiple locations. It is plausible that for such completely different conditions a standard solution cannot be sufficient. from the start, we took a different route and developed modular system solutions that can be implemented flexibly by organizations of any size. In addition, they can be integrated quickly and without any problems into the existing IT infrastructure. It is the strictly demand-oriented approach that our customers appreciate about our solutions. as we always keep our customers actual needs in mind and view the entire finance process from our customers perspective, we also offer specific industry solutions that are new and yet unrivalled in the market. Many renowned companies already deploy our solutions and profit from the sustainable process optimization of their system landscape. "With the innovative solution EBsec we have not only harmonized our company-wide payment processes but we have also sharpened the focus on our finances. Bernd friedrich, Head of financial department Solution for Energy (S4E) "Through the use of EBsec Professional we have significantly increased the transparency of all our bank accounts we maintain across Europe. Günter Spittel, finance department IVG Immobilien "With EBsec we have been able to make our group-wide payment processes significantly more transparent and are now able to control them more effectively. Katrin Muschaweck, accounting department Energie Südbayern (ESB) "We have been able to significantly streamline our processes: what we had to trigger manually before, now runs in the background automatically, stably and securely. EBsec Professional was the right choice for us. Tim Boller, Commercial project Management and project Controlling CinemaxX Entertainment GmbH & Co. KG
8 Our Holistic Service Our understanding of service is one of a full service. This means that, right from the start, you can rely on our teams of experts from consulting and realization to ensuring full functionality during system operation. In a first step, we record your requirements, analyze your processes in regard to the objectives and, based on this information, define solution proposals. We discuss and coordinate our proposals in depth with you, so that you will have detailed information about the course of the project before the implementation phase starts. The implementation phase is based on our jointly defined milestones: the implementation of the system by our system specialists and at the same time the training of users in your organization. In this way we ensure that you are optimally prepared for the go-live of the system and all participants in the process feel confident in using our solutions. We are also available if you have additional questions or if any problems, technical issues and other queries should occur: Our customer service is available by telephone, email and/or remote maintenance to provide assistance through our highly qualified systems engineers. Where necessary, our systems engineers can also provide on-site support. We offer different support packages to ensure the service quality and response time you need.
9 our SoFtWARE At A glance Define the payment type and thus the next steps either direct posting or applying a sub rule. With EBsec you can automatically verify and process your incoming and outgoing payments via your bank statements. The camt formats are also supported. The Cash Position Worksheet simplifies the balance forecasting and is a dynamic, interactive platform for controlling the cash management process. You can access the individual applications via drill down. You can highlight specific events by using different colours.
10 Your Partner for Innovation: cogon cogon is one of the leading software providers of financial solutions in Germany. With a clear focus on the optimization and professionalization of the entire financial process chain we have been creating tangible added values for our customers for more than 10 years. A holistic approach is central to our products and services from the development of innovative software solutions to banking and technical consultancy. Renowned customers from all industry sectors benefit from our comprehensive IT services that are based on the extensive know-how of our development, consultancy and project teams. The success and the innovative strength of cogon are based on the expertise of our employees which positively influences the consistent further development of our solutions a guarantee for best practices and highest quality. As we develop the solutions ourselves, customers can rely on our know-how for an optimal project implementation, a professional support service and consultancy throughout the entire project. Flexibility due to a modular and extendable service offer, fast and seamless integration in existing system landscapes, pioneering technologies this is what makes our solutions stand out in the market. With this we have not only convinced our customers, but also independent expert committees. Several awards confirm the innovative quality of our solutions. Our products are always developed on the basis of up-to-date standard technologies so that our customers benefit from numerous advantages. You obtain highly efficient tools that are easy to use and put into operation quickly. They can also be installed quickly and easily. Moreover, maintainability and scalability are positively influenced. cogon GmbH Oldesloer Straße 63 22457 Hamburg Germany Tel: +49 (0)40 / 51 48 08-0 Fax: +49 (0)40 / 51 48 08-188 Email: info@cogon.com http://www.cogon.com Copyright 05/2014 cogon GmbH. All rights reserved. SAP is a registered trademark of SAP SE.
11 HANSE ORGA group A holistic Approach for Your Financial Processes Since 2014, Hanse Orga has united the three entities Hanse Orga AG, cogon GmbH and SymQ GmbH under one umbrella: the Hanse Orga Group. Already today, more than 1,000 customers benefit from our leading and specialized solutions and services. As Hanse Orga Group we are a one-stop shop for your financial supply chain management. We offer specialized SAP add-ons in form of the Hanse Orga FinanceSuite modules, innovative and ERP-independent financial solutions of cogon and a competent SAP treasury consultancy by SymQ. With our integrated approach of modular software solutions and specialized SAP consultancy we are able to create added value for our customers. Since 1984 we have been developing modern financial solutions always having our finger on the pulse of the time. With a dedicated focus on the end-user experience, our technology is developed and continuously improved by financial professionals for financial professionals. Our customer-centric approach has resulted in technically sophisticated and economically elaborate systems. Coupled with high-level advocacy this is a proven recipe for best practices and sustainable quality. The integrated and SAP - certified solutions of the Hanse Orga AG offer companies a very useful add-on to their existing SAP landscapes. They help significantly enhance efficiency in the areas of account reconciliation, cash management, liquidity planning, treasury management, payment factory and electronic bank account management. The particular focus of cogon GmbH is on innovative and ERP-independent financial solutions for payments, cash application as well as cash, liquidity and treasury management. Flexibility, an extendable service offer and the easy integration into existing systems mark out our solutions. From global player to mediumsized companies companies can significantly benefit from the competent SAP consultancy of SymQ for the areas of finance and treasury. The consultancy approach ranges from strategy development and solution design via the implementation to the continuous process optimization in SAP.
12 cogon GmbH Oldesloer Straße 63 22457 Hamburg Germany Tel: +49 (0)40 / 51 48 08-0 Fax: +49 (0)40 / 51 48 08-188 Email: info@cogon.com http://www.cogon.com