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    SIS : Rethinking our StudentsInformation system

    November 2015

    Pascal Vallet Director of Academic Technology with the collaboration of the Academic Technology Team

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    1. Contact page 3

    2. Links to Salesforce Success Stories page 3

    3. Information about Salesforce Cloud Event New York November, 18 2015 page 3

    4. Presentation AT Department November, 12 2015 page 4

    5. Exponent Success Stories page 496. Exponent Salesforce Planning Engagement Overview page 53

    7. Exponent Example Planning Engagement Summary page 59

    8. Exponent Preliminary Solution Description & Cost Estimate page 77

    9. FinancialForce: documentation specific to Accounting page 80

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    We become what we behold.We shape our tools and then

    our tools shape us

    - Marshall McLuhan, 1966

    SIS : Rethinking our Students Information system

    Supporting DocumentsAT Department

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    1. Contact:

    Salesforce : Julie Wiseman

    Account Executive, Nonprofit Organizations | Salesforce.com Foundation

    [email protected]| office (703) 470-0503 | mobile (703) 244-5434

    Exponent Partner : Kristi Phillips

    Account Manager | Exponent [email protected] | w 1-(800) 918-2917 Ext. 159 or 347-514-9155

    2. Salesforce Success Stories:

    Teach for America

    United Nations

    University of Southern California

    Cornell University

    George Mason University

    3. Information about Salesforce Cloud Event New York November, 18 2015:

    When? November, 18 2015 from 8am to 6pm

    Where? Davits Convention Center

    Register online

    Agenda:

    8:00 a.m. - 6:00 p.m : Registration & Customer Success Expo

    8:30 a.m. - 9:10 a.m.: Breakout sessions

    9:45 a.m. - 10:00 a.m. : Pre-show with Peter Coffee, VP of Strategic Research at Salesforce

    10:00 a.m. - 11:30 a.m.: Keynote with Keith Block, Vice Chairman and President, Salesforce,

    and special guest speakers

    11:30 a.m. - 1:00 p.m.: Lunch in Customer Success Expo

    1:00 p.m. - 4:40 p.m.: Breakout sessions**

    4:40 p.m. - 6:00 p.m.: Networking reception in the Customer Success Expo

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    http://www.apple.com/http://www.salesforcefoundation.org/stories/george-mason-university/http://www.salesforcefoundation.org/stories/cornell-university/http://www.salesforcefoundation.org/stories/university-southern-california/http://www.salesforcefoundation.org/nonprofit/drive-organizational-change-from-front-lines-webinar/http://www.salesforcefoundation.org/stories/teach-america/mailto:[email protected]
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    www.exponentpartners.com 800.918.2917

    Success Story

    2014 Exponent Partners. Salesforce, Salesforce.com, and the Salesforce.com Foundation are trademarks

    of salesforce.com, inc. and are used here with permission.

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    of schools, students and alumni, making it difcult to track the extent to which KIPP and the

    KIPP Through College (KTC) Program were achieving their mission.

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    www.exponentpartners.com 800.918.2917

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    Important student data was stored in Google Docs, but these spreadsheets werent

    connected. Without an ability to analyze historical data easily, mistakes were being

    repeated, rather than corrected. Scalability was also a concern because, at that time,

    OneGoal had 10 staff supporting 60 teachers, and was experiencing rapid growth.

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    Program Directors at individual schools followed a time-consuming manual process to plot

    each students ACT scores against their GPAs to gure out a students selectivity, which is

    used to determine best-t and match colleges. If done incorrectly, a student is at risk of notapplying to the correct school.

    Inefcient Communications

    OneGoals Program Staff spent too much time on one-off email communications with

    Program Directors, since they did not have a single place to go to enter information about

    their students. This inefciency pulled Program Staff away from strategic work.

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    OneGoals decision to use Salesforcefor its student data warehouse was driven by the

    organizations overarching goal of having a central database to capture more data points.

    Salesforce could provide the structure we needed to communicate with our Program Staff

    and Program Directors in one place, while giving us the exibility to change as our program

    model evolves and we need to collect different and new data, explained Topher. We

    chose Exponent Partners because we wanted to work with people who really understoodour work and challenges, and had deep expertise in Salesforce. We wanted a partner that

    would be an extension of our team.

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    our model, said Topher. Improved insight into our data forced us to have the right

    conversations internally, and refocuses our work. OneGoal is also able to track and

    communicate, historically, the impact the organization has had, and use this data to better

    predict current and future outcomes.

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    For every input, there is now an outputin the form of a eld, a report or a dashboard

    that helps the Program Directors immediately in their classroom, explained Topher.Exponent Partners has created a sustainable way for us to manage our data. Instantly as

    new GPAs or ACT score comes in, a new selectivity rating is calculated. Program Directors

    are now able to tailor their support to ensure all students are hitting their goals. From a

    students perspective, objective reports help them see their progress in real-time.

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    Program Staff can now provide better support to teachers, and our Program Teams are

    able to focus on the strategic analysis of data, rather than spending their valuable time

    manipulating it for reporting purposes. Users have access to dashboards, can track

    students performance against goalsby semester and by yearand can report on this

    data daily, monthly or annually.

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    Migrated student data from

    spreadsheets into Salesforce

    Improved data-driven decision-making capacity

    Streamlined communications and

    processes

    Able to analyze data in real-time

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    OneGoal identies, trains, and supports our nations most effective teachers to lead underperforming high school students toreach their full potential and graduate from college.

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    www.exponentpartners.com 800.918.2917

    Success Story

    2014 Exponent Partners. Salesforce, Salesforce.com, and the Salesforce.com Foundation are trademarks

    of salesforce.com, inc. and are used here with permission.

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    Amigos De Las Amricas (Amigos) sends youth volunteers to Latin America to lead valuable

    service projects. Accepting applications and ensuring that volunteers have everything in

    place to make their trips a success required a huge amount of document intake. Their small

    staff was overburdened with this processing.

    After acceptance, staff also needed to process other volunteer docs: health forms, passport

    information, and more. It could be difcult for volunteers to track the status of their own

    documents as well.

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    Staff is spread across the world: in Texas, on U.S. high school and college campuses (in

    chapter networks of volunteers who recruit students), and in Latin America. Because of

    this distribution, it was difcult to preserve institutional knowledge and centralize Amigos

    information. Useful details about programs, volunteers and alumni might only be in Word or

    Excel documents, or not written down.

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    client success story

    2009 Exponent Partners www.exponentpartners.com

    [email protected]

    Created a custom application

    on Force.com in two months

    Improved user interface

    for applicants

    Uses integrated system

    to recruit, receive, and

    process applications

    Generates dynamic reports in

    minutes, not hours

    Weve leapfrogged

    many other nonprots

    that are spending many

    more dollars on IT

    infrastructure.

    Its phenomenal.James Truong,

    Executive Director, Operations

    & Business Systems,

    NLNS

    NEW LEADERS FOR

    NEW SCHOOLS

    Client:New Leaders for New Schools (NLNS) is transforming the Nations public education system by

    recruiting and training principals for placement at struggling schools and by incenting best practic-es dissemination. The organization currently handles roughly 10,000 leads, 1,800 initial applicants,

    800 applicants who complete the application and evaluation process, and 100 awardees annually,while tracking the performance of existing NLNS principals/schools.

    Challenges: Lack of Integration between Databases: Two existing custom-built systems, one for recruiting,

    receiving, and processing applications, and another for tracking principal/school performance,

    were cumbersome and not integrated.

    Inexible and Inaccurate Reporting: Reporting was static, unreliable, and time-consuming.

    Senior staff spent two to six hours exporting and preparing data for analysis weekly. Presenta-tion of data made it difcult to make informed strategic recruitment and admissions decisions

    based on past performance.

    Costly Maintenance Fees: With no in-house development expertise, any change to existing

    systems was outsourced. Annual maintenance fees totaled a small fortune.

    Complex Systems: Current systems were not user friendly, making it difcult to evaluate and

    move applicants through the admissions process.

    Solution:In only two months, Exponent Partners built a custom recruiting, admissions, and administration

    application for NLNS on the Force.com platform. The turn-key project included discovery, busi-ness process workow analysis and design, systems development, data migration, and launch. Two

    legacy Java/MS SQL Server custom web applications were replaced in record time.

    Exponent Partners also designed and delivered an innovative online application intake solution

    using Salesforce portal and Visualforce technologies. Over the course of the project, NLNS capac-ity expanded to the point where the organization fully supports its new world-class application

    infrastructure.

    Results: Cost Savings: System maintenance fee savings paid for the new system within the rst few

    months of implementation and will save NLNS thousands of dollars annually.

    Professional Interface for End-Users: From a marketing perspective, the Visualforce-based

    application interface on NLNS website presents a highly professional public face that helps

    drive recruitment efforts.

    Productivity Improvements: Recruiting, receiving, and processing applications along with track-ing principal/school performance are now fully integrated, making Salesforce.com the one-

    stop-shopping system that dramatically improved the national admissions teams productivity.

    Dynamic Reporting: Static reports that used to take hours to create are now generated

    dynamically in minutes, and provide much greater detail which helps staff to make strategicrecruiting decisions.

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    Exponent Partners:

    Salesforce Planning Engagement Overview

    November, 2015

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    Mission-Based B-Corp

    Exclusively Focused on Nonprofits

    1000 Projects over the Past 10 Years

    Top Tier Strategic Salesforce Foundation Partner

    Deep Social Sector Expertise

    Developer of Exponent Case Management on the Salesforce AppExch

    Focused on Human Services, Education, and PhilanthropyXPONENT PARTNERS

    Tech Experts for Social Change

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    Streamlined Engagement Benefits

    Benefit #1

    Benefit #2

    Benefit #3

    Cost Effective Implementation

    Flexible Scope

    Dedicated Consultant and Fixed Timeframe

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    Your SolutionYour Need Our Solution Assumptions Estimated Cos

    Planning Engagement. The UnitedNations International School would likeo make a strategic investment in

    Salesforce over time to support various

    organizational and school businessprocesses such as attendance, grade

    racking, class scheduling,advancement, finance, after care

    program, etc.. To support yournvestment and leverage best practiceson implementation, we propose to

    conduct a planning engagement thatwill allow us to work closely with your

    school to define what a system build

    out could look like- including an initialmplementation, i.e. scope, cost,

    sequence, duration, etc.

    Exponent Partners will conduct a system planning

    engagement.This engagement allows ExponentPartners to learn more about your current vision

    for Salesforce based on your goals and objectives

    as a school Based on your priorities, we will helpdevelop a roadmap for your Salesforce platform.

    Outcomes include:

    3-4 meetings with our expert consultants &

    business analysts Review of existing systems & tools (if

    applicable)

    Review of existing documentation, trackers,reports, etc.

    Written high level requirements for

    comprehensive solution

    Written documentation outlining our

    findings, potential risks andrecommendations based on your current

    system and vision for the future; includes

    recommended project sequencing

    Estimates for future work to inform planning

    & decision making.

    We assume this

    engagement will beconducted prior to any

    configuration within

    Salesforce.

    40-50 hours

    $7,400-$9,250

    *The duration of a 50

    hour engagement isweeks.

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    3 Confirm availability for scheduling

    4 Assign your key contact, including a Project Manager and/or System Administrator

    Next Steps to a Successful Project

    2 Sign SOW and Professional Services Agreement

    5Share any related documentation with Exponent Partners (i.e. current trackers,

    goals/vision, current challenges, etc.)

    1 Exponent Partners prepares estimates and contracts

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    Next Steps

    1

    2

    5

    We collaborate on defining project scope

    You complete the

    prerequisite

    questionnaires

    We begin the pro

    Exponent Partners creates

    an estimate

    3

    We sign contracts

    4

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    The purpose of this document is to provide an example of what a planning engagement summary could

    look like for your organization. Other documents such as high level requirements, solution diagrams and

    detailed cost estimates are also provided through this engagement and stored outside of this document

    Please note that the sequencing, cost and duration are examples and not reflective of our understanding

    of your requirements at this time.

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    Phase 1:

    Basic CRM

    Summer schoolmanagement

    Mentor andteacher fellow

    tracking

    Gmail for

    Salesforce

    Phase 5:

    Volunteer

    management

    Workshop andevent

    management

    College

    persistence data

    Mass email

    SMS (if notcompleted earlie

    Document merg

    for programmanagement

    Phase 4:

    Program

    application

    School yearattendance

    tracking

    Grade tracking

    Student

    accountability/riskmanagement

    Phase 3:

    Fundraising/

    development

    Online donations

    Document merge

    Note: Phase 3 will run in

    parallel with phase 2,

    with an additional

    consultant to work with

    the development team.

    Phase 2:

    High school

    placement

    Collegeadmissions

    Standardized test

    score tracking

    If time: SMS

    May 1 - June 30 July 1 - Sept 30 July 1 - Oct 31 Oct 1 - Jan 31 Feb 1 - March 31

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    Exponent Design-Build-

    Adopt Engagement

    Approach

    Exponent Scrum

    Engagement Approach

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    Phase 1 2 3 4 5

    Estimated

    Hours

    132-209 hrs 187-231 hrs 116-132 hrs 149-193 hrs 172-232 hrs

    Estimated Cost $24,156-$38,073 $34,185-$42,257 $21,460-$24,420 $26,355-$34,047 $31,477-$42,326

    TOTAL: 756- 997 hours ; $136,523-$180,938

    Options for cost reduction:Beginning on slide 8, Exponent Partner has outlined recommended as well as optional customizationsthat require software development and custom code. Exponent Partners has also provided a non-code alternative to as an option to

    reduce or defer cost. Our estimates above include all of the recommended code options (slide 7).

    *Detailed cost estimates are available in an attached document.

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    Req

    Number

    Phase Description Estimated

    Effort

    Non-code Alternative

    R23,R37, R89

    1, 4 Single screen from which to enterattendance for classes/meetings.

    11 hrs Mass import with data loading tool.Recommend custom coded solution becauseExponent already has core functionality built.

    R72 2 Automatically copy all admissionrequirements when a new high school

    application is created.

    22 hrs Manual creation of application to-dos is notrecommended. This customization offers high

    value for end users.

    R74 2 Email template listing application to-dos for

    weekly notification to parents.

    5 hrs No configuration-only alternative. Recommend

    because effort is low.

    Exponent recommends implementing the following features that require custom code development. These are

    either low-hanging fruit or high value to end users.

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    Req

    Number

    Phase Description Estimated

    Effort

    Non-code Alternative

    R15 4 Automatically create enrollment record formiddle school specified on application.

    11 hrs Mass import with data loading tool.

    R90 4 Automatically indicate requirementfulfillment based on workshop/eventattendance.

    16 hrs Manually update for each student, or massupdate with data loading tool.

    R97 4 Store and display most recent GPA onstudent contact record.

    11 hrs Manually update, or may not be necessary atall.

    R127 4 Email template for weekly update to highschool students.

    5 - 8 hrs Depending on range of data to include, customtemplate or third-party tool may be required.

    The following customizations may not be necessary, at least for initial launch; therefore, your organization maychoose to defer or de-prioritize this work.

    Cost WITHOUT Optional Code: $26,355-$34,047 (Phase 4)

    Cost WITH Optional Code:$38,480-$50,652 (Phase 4)

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    Our Project Manager will conduct weekly status meetings with your

    Project Manager and other designated team leaders. The weekly

    status report and meeting results will be documented. The standing

    agenda for the weekly status meeting is: Project Scope, Project

    Schedule, Project Budget, and Project Issues/Risks.

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    720 Market Street, #600, San Francisco, CA 94102Tel: 800 918-2917 Fax: 888 529-5498 www.ex onent artners.com

    documentation, data migration & projectmanagement.

    Admissions/selection!

    Application collectionfrom students/families! Admissions and selection

    management

    Publically accessible web form applicationthat fully integrates with Salesforce. Customconfigured admissions and selectionsystem. Integration of communication toolssuch as mass email, SMS text, etc.QA/testing, deployment, projectdocumentation, data migration & projectmanagement.

    Exponent Partners will help UNIS determineif there are existing products that may bettermeet their needs for admissions/ selectionduring the planning engagement.

    Fundraising/Advancement

    ! Manage fundraising andadvancement efforts fromindividual donors,government entities,corporations, etc.

    Custom configured fundraising andadvancement solution based on theNonprofit Starter Pack. QA/testing,deployment, project documentation, datamigration & project management.

    Exponent Partners will help UNIS determineif there are existing products that may bettermeet their needs for fundraising/advancement during the planningengagement such asAdvancementConnect.

    Finance ! Budget! Purchasing! Expense management! Vendor tracking! Payroll

    Implement an existing product such asFinancialForceorAccounting Seedbasedon the complexity of UNIS requirements.

    Aftercare Program ! Student/programenrollment

    ! Payment collection! Registration! Attendance tracking

    Custom built solution. Publically accessibleweb form application/enrollment form thatfully integrates with Salesforce. Customconfigured registration system. Integrationof payment collection tool. User interfaceenhancements through Visualforce andApex to efficiently track attendance.

    QA/testing, deployment, projectdocumentation, data migration & project

    management.

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    720 Market Street, #600, San Francisco, CA 94102Tel: 800 918-2917 Fax: 888 529-5498 www.ex onent artners.com

    Based on our experience building comparable solutions for more than 400 clients and 1,000

    projects, we estimate that the cost of solution implementation for the project described above is$350,000-$450,000.

    Through the planning engagement (and possible product selection) we are able to greatly

    refine this estimate through more requirements gathering and additional conversations with

    your team. This refinement could lead to a significant cost savings for your school. Also,

    Exponent Partners invoices clients based on time and materials used. Clients only pay for the

    time used by consultants and are not charged for any unused hours.

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    FinancialForce Accounting is a simple, yet powerful, accounting application that

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    perfect complement to Salesforce CRM, helping you to bring back office data to

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    Delivering CRM to accounting end-to-endinSalesforceFinancialForce Accounting resides on the same cloud platform as Salesforce CRM, Force.com.

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    user interface - even the same user logins. FinancialForce Accounting and Salesforce CRM

    are literally embedded together, making the lines between applications indiscernible, which

    increases user adoption and enables cross training across the applications.

    One company, one system, one view of the customerFrom a nancial perspective, tight integration allows the Opportunity to Cash process to ow

    seamlessly and securely through sales, billing and receivables without any manual effort,

    special integrations or extraneous spreadsheets. Your team will be on the same page becauseall your nancial information is held securely in one system, in one place. This includes

    FinancialForce.coms 360 view, the most comprehensive customer relationship reporting

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    Billing, A/R, Sales and Services.

    The multi-everything accounting engineAt the applications core is an innovative accounting engine that can accommodate

    the most diverse or complex enterprise requirements. It includes advances like a single

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    business intelligence and helps them shorten period closes. The accounting engine includes

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    Real-time accounting for real-life businessFinancialForce Accounting is built for the fast-paced and competitive business era in which

    we live. Unlike on-premises accounting systems of the past, FinancialForce Accounting is a

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    reconciliations and laborious period-close processes. It is built for real-time nancial analysis

    and modeling, not just to generate nancial statements. The system is furnished with nancial

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    General Ledger exible, efficient and always in balance Flexible, multi-dimensional chart of accounts.

    Multi-currency and multi-company transaction handling.

    Transfer costs between companies or business units with an inter-companyjournal.

    Perform accruals with automatic reversing journals.

    Automatic calculation of cumulative, year-to-date budgets for each period.

    User and role based dashboards provide real time visibility.

    Standard and customizablenancial report templates.

    Accounts Payable streamlined, controlled Invoice to Payprocessing Reduce keystrokes with document templates and electronic invoicing.

    Use authorization workow for automated invoice and expense approvals.

    Set vendor credit limits and credit terms by vendor account.

    Pay vendors by check or electronically.

    Automatically calculate due dates and settlement discounts, based on vendorterms.

    Prevent payment of duplicate invoices.

    Dene your own check print formats.

    Accounts Receivable streamlined, seamless Opportunityto Cash processing Create invoices from Salesforce opportunities in a single click.

    Set credit terms both globally and by customer account.

    Automatically calculate of due dates and settlement discounts.

    Automatically calculate payments to invoices based on document references andamounts.

    Use tasks as reminders to chase past due accounts.

    Use Chatter to collaborate with sales and services personnel on late payers andcustomer issues.

    Send statements and reminder letters by email.

    Use My Account a customer self-service billing portal.

    Automate lockbox transaction processing with the FinancialForce.com cashmatching API.

    Cash Management optimize your cash ow and workincapital Easily forecast cash ows and currency needs.

    Set up multiple bank accounts in different currencies.

    Pay customer refunds from A/R without duplicating records in A/P.

    Record one-offpayments to vendors and refunds to/from vendors.

    Automatically reconcile your bank statements without re-keying.

    Record bank charges and interest shown on your bank statement.

    Ordering and Billing eliminate manual processes andcomplex integrations!

    Sales ordering Create an order from a Salesforce opportunity, quote or custom object

    single click.

    Create orders automatically in batch no-touch order processing.

    Generate invoices automatically from approved orders. Eliminate manual processing, re-keying errors, spreadsheets and unnece

    databases.

    Get complete visibility of the CRM-to-Accounting cycle.

    Improve order cycle times, cash ow and sales capacity.

    Billing Raise an invoice directly from any activity in Salesforce CRM (standard or

    custom objects).

    Create a single invoice with multiple installment payment due dates.

    Set up recurring invoices for regular bills, such as an annual maintenanceagreement invoiced monthly.

    Generate accounting entries for FinancialForce Accounting or your on-premise ERP system.

    About UsFinancialForce.com is the #1 developer of back office business applications on the Salesforce Platform. Our award-winning apps - accounting, billing and professional services automation - are built arounyour customers, unlike ERP systems of the past. Our outside-in approach allows you to eliminate barriers and inefficiencies between the front and back office to cohesively improve customer visibility andsatisfaction, and pursue a customer-centric strategy to protable growth. Founded in 2009, FinancialForce.com is backed by two of the biggest and best players in the business, UNIT4 and salesforce.com.

    Tond out more about FinancialForce solutions, please contact us at:

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