“Good show today.” It was nice to come back to the office and find that thank you email waiting.
After a warm Microsoft official welcome by Karim Talhouk, Microsoft Business Solutions Lead for Microsoft Gulf. Synergy Software Systems’ Director, Stephen Jones, gave a keynote presentation of what is CPM, the Gartner maturity model, why it makes a difference, and what surveys from industry analysts like Aberdeen, Gartner and PWC reveal about the difference it makes to leading companies.
Prophix’s unified approach to Strategy planning, Budgets, Forecasts, Consolidation, Detailed Planning, and the underlying workflow engine, reports binders, audit trails, and analysis tools all built on the Microsoft technology stack were covered.
This was followed by some practical examples of how to automate the Office of the CFO
After the break and some lively discussions Asim gave a live demonstration of the power and ease of use of Prophix. He also showed how Microsoft tools like Power BI and SSRS can provide additional ways to present and to analyse data.
Executive Director Jennifer Vaz, presented two local Synergy case studies of Prophix implementations featuring: Danone, and Accor, Both companies have considerably extended the use of Prophix into other areas beyond CPM.
The interest continued over lunch. If you missed it then you get another chance to meet us tomorrow on our stand, or in our breakout session at the Dynamics Summit at the J. W. Marriot Marquis Hotel, Downtown Dubai.
