Inala Broadcast, a provider and integrator of turnkey solutions to the broadcast market in South Africa, has implemented Sage Intacct, the cloud financial management platform, to streamline its financial operations and enable its finance team to move to a remote working model.
Developed by Sage, a market leader in cloud business management solutions, Sage Intacct provides deep multi-dimensional accounting, automation for efficient financial operations, and sophisticated visibility for real-time decision making.
Inala Broadcast started looking for a new business solution during 2020 to replace its Sage 300 solution, with the aim of migrating to a cloud-based business solution to reduce IT costs and enable its finance team to work from anywhere. The company analysed its IT expenses and identified a suitable cloud platform that would allow it to operate independently without needing to run its own servers or build in-house IT capabilities.
Inala evaluated a range of business solutions, but ultimately opted for Sage Intacct based on its long-standing relationship with Sage Business Partner, Lorge and overall satisfaction with Sage solutions.
Riekie Roux, head of Sage Intacct at Lorge, adds that Sage Intacct not only enables the finance team to work easily and securely from any location, but it also offers powerful functionality that gives the finance team better insight and richer, self-service reports across multiple dimensions of the business’s finances. It also enables the team to track serial numbers for equipment sales without the need to implement a complex inventory management solution – one of Inala’s key requirements.
Lorge’s familiarity with the technical and business environment at Inala Broadcast facilitated smooth migration of financial data from Sage 300 to Sage Intacct. The solution was implemented in under six weeks, and the finance team quickly learned how to use it via its online training materials. The team has found the process easy to implement, and completed its first financial year-end with Sage Intacct as the new financial management solution.
Says Gerhard Hartman, Vice President: Medium Business, Sage Africa & Middle East: “As we adjust to the next normal, every finance leader is challenged to achieve better current and forward-looking visibility for improved decision making. A solution like Sage Intacct enables companies to pay for what they need, benefit from more efficient implementations, and achieve lower total cost of ownership, helping them to easily navigate difficult times.”
About Sage
Sage is the global market leader for technology that provides small and medium businesses with the visibility, flexibility and efficiency to manage finances, operations and people. With our partners, Sage is trusted by millions of customers worldwide to deliver the best cloud technology and support. Our years of experience mean that our colleagues and partners understand how to serve our customers and communities through the good, and more challenging times. We are here to help, with practical advice, solutions, expertise and insight.
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About Lorge
Lorge Consulting Services (Pty) Ltd provides a complete True Cloud-based solution to mid-sized and larger customers on the African continent. Over the past 35 years, we as an organisation have been crafting ERP solutions and have followed the evolution of business software from core accounting, to ERP and now to extended ERP, HRM and Multi-Cloud and have adapted our business model to enable us to deliver these modern extensible systems.
Our core focus is partnering with our clients to create a holistic and complete ERP solution to enhance efficiencies within your organisation, providing a fit for purpose solution.
Find out more: www.lorge.co.za