References

Fernandes group (Coca Cola bottling, ice cream manufacturer etc. based in South America)- Drs Coen Valk RA, CFO - product Financial Suite®

Balance sheet as framework
The choice for SharePoint Financial Suite® was primarily motivated by the flexibility of the platform; documents in any file format can be stored in the system. The decision was based on the fact that this product standardization facilitates the financial reporting and review process in a natural way.

Financial Suite® provides the distribution of information via secure Internet connections available to external auditors, or information to unlock board, shareholders and stakeholders. And although Fernandes is not yet mandatory to IFRS and SOx compliant, it will be considered as an advantage that this Financial Suite and reporting processes associated with supports this legislation.

That Fernandes has chosen for this ' customizable out-of-the-box ' solution, is in line with the investment policy. The management decided that a private built system would be too expensive, while the result is unpredictable. Combined with the requirement that future interfaces with new business processes on corporate level should benefit from the same platform, makes Financial Suite® the right choice for Fernandes. Especially the same metadata structure that is used in Legal Platform for our contract management increased our efficiency and information output.

Pigture group (global group of companies based in the Netherlands)- P. van Sundert RA, Corporate controller - product Legal Platform

Pieter wrote on Pinpoint(Microsoft) the following:

The tools are built on the basis of extensive experience in various financial functions of Smaret SharePoint Solutions. Direct contact with the company is easy. Adjustments (at our request) in SharePoint are by nature easy to deploy and changes with more impact are deployed quickly. Legal Platform can also be used by lawyers. In my opinion, it is a very usable and flexible tool.

Additional comments

We use Legal Platform, that supports us in managing legal documents and easily consult and share information from legal documents. Especially the solution Company register appears to be a great solution. Managing formal documents of the Group companies (approximately 50) was a difficult job, via the Company register to access all available documents access is now quickly and transparent. The most common ways of searching are translated in FINDING the documents, which is achieved by the metadata that is attached to each document. Also the management of contracts of customers and suppliers can now also be much better managed. Legal Platform has helped us to be " In Control" for all our legal documents.

Read Pieter van Sundert's assessment of Legal Platform on Pinpoint

On FM.NL he gave in an interview the following comment:

Is compliance very important for you?
Sure, we have a created standard templates for our contracts and delivery terms. We must have a clear understanding of the meaning of different articles in the setting of our contracts. Negotiations can go in any direction if you have not prepared your negotiations. We have also implemented a software solution called Legal Platform, a solution based on Microsoft SharePoint (collaboration software). This gives true transparency on our company data and contracts.

Read the whole interview