The Village of
Glencoe, Illinois is located north of Chicago on Lake Michigan and
provides a wide-range of services to a population of approximately 8,762
customers. The Village has gone live with Innoprise's Financial
Management software. Glencoe also purchased Innoprise CIS and Community
Development software, along with Internet enabling, Citizen Access.
The decision to purchase new ERP software was driven by the
recognition that Glencoe’s existing software would not serve the needs
of the Village government and its residents as efficiently as Innoprise.
According to Dave Clark, Director of Finance for the Village, the
challenge was to find a flexible system that provided easy access to
data across departments and to the community.
Glencoe’s existing
financial system that had been in place since 1993 required costly
programming modifications to accommodate the Village’s business
processes changes. “The transition from Pentamation to Innoprise
Financials has been very smooth and since we’ve gone live on Innoprise
Financials things are going very well,” said Clark. “We have gone
through our first round of bank reconciliations with Innoprise data.
Accounts payable, requisitions, purchase orders are all working fine.
The general ledger activity conversion process to Innoprise general
ledger is working very well,” explained Clark.
“October 2008 was the first month with Innoprise Financial
reports being presented to the Board and I am very pleased with the
reports,” said Clark. According to Clark, we are able to set up monthly
reports as operating statements instead of separate revenue and expense
reports. I have also used ad hoc reporting to create a general ledger
cash and investment report which also shows investment revenue. The
budget module is very intuitive. I have created a request budget and
recommended budget for FY 2010 and can easily extract the data into a
Filemaker database to create sub-total reports.
Glencoe’s finance department is enjoying several time saving
features such as the ability to duplicate the check register summary
report previously submitted to the Board. Another is the variance
report where staff selects revenue and expense items in excess of the
percent of year completed +/- 10% and where the line item is greater
than $10,000. Staff can easily extract the data and manipulate the
numbers in Excel.
The new software offers inherent Internet capability for
citizens, Microsoft Office integration and provides the Village an
opportunity to evaluate and implement updated business processes without
the software mandating its own limitations. The entire ERP suite of
software is comprised of many built-in workflow automation features that
will allow customers like Glencoe to streamline standard business
functions, lower support costs and improve departmental efficiency.
About Innoprise
Software
Innoprise Software, Inc. ™
is a leading provider of financial and utility software solutions to
the local government and utility industries. Teaming with a core group
of customers Innoprise developed next generation CIS, Financials, Tax
and Community Development software. The new software is based on 30
years of industry experience, Java™ and Internet technologies that
enable Innoprise customers to reduce their cost of service, streamline
operations and improve productivity. For additional information, visit www.innoprise.com.
