OREANDA-NEWS. March 14, 2013. Experts of Energy Consulting presented their reports at a conference “Corporate Information Systems. Innovation Technologies” held at the Smolny Palace (St. Petersburg). Energy Consulting is a general partner of the conference.

Asya Volfson, Expert in Sage ERP X3 Project Business Directorate, presented Sage ERP X3 as a tool for efficient planning, business process optimization and cost reduction.

Software for automation of holding companies has aroused great interest of conference’s participants. This solution enables to create a management accounting system in ten companies of the holding all over the world, automate tax and financial accounting for each company, and systemize stock planning inside holding companies.

Flexibility and convenience of Sage ERP X3, availability of software customization by client’s employees (without participation of software engineers) and full localization for Russia have sparked huge interest of representatives of St. Petersburg higher education establishments choosing an appropriate system for making an ERP course for students in Economics.

Asya Volfson, Expert in Sage ERP X3 Project Business Directorate: "Sage ERP X3 is a cutting-edge ERP-system, optimally balanced in terms of their functionality, price, adaptation to upgrading, user friendliness and customization. Sage ERP X3 efficiency has been proved by thousands of implementations in Europe, North America and Asia".

At a time when information support to management and financial business processes is the foundation for economic sustainability of business entities, and any information becomes an important corporate resource, it is necessary to draw attention to the significant discrepancy between the scale and complexity of solved tasks and the low level of IS security.

Denis Nikiforov, Head of Information Security Department, informed in his speech about business application security management and about prevention of fraud. This is particularly important for large companies with hundreds or more users and dozens of information systems.

Denis Nikiforov, Head of Information Security Department: "The relevance of fraud risks leads to the need to build up an integrated approach to solving the problem of separation of authorities in systems. This principle is based on the arranging these processes in such a way so as to exclude the assignment of authorities for the only person responsible for the implementation of certain business processes and potentially dangerous operations".

The conference has brought together about 200 representatives of business entities and government bodies of St. Petersburg.