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Summary
May 27- 2005 - Cartesis has just released ES Magnitude, a consolidation and
statutory/management reporting package. Consolidation software has received
less attention than it deserves in recent years. One possible reason is almost
all Global 2000 organizations already have solutions in place and therefore
many consider the category "mature." However, Ventana Research advises companies
to take a close look at their incumbent system to be certain their package(s)
will enable them to support business initiatives such as accelerating their
accounting close, broadening the scope of information used in management reporting,
increasing sustainable compliance efficiency and cutting operating costs.
In this latest release, Cartesis sought to substantially reduce the resources and time required to deploy the software. The latest release also supports a hierarchical chart of accounts and reporting unit hierarchies, and it incorporates sets of built-in roll-up rules to simplify deployment and maintenance. To help manage the period-end process with greater control and flexibility it added consolidation workflows and enhanced to the capabilities of its consolidation locking and sub-consolidation controls. Sarbanes-Oxley Section 404 has increased the importance of recording and tracing an audit trail in a compliance-sensitive area such as consolidation, and ES Magnitude has improved this capability as well.
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