Cloud computing has become ubiquitous in our personal and professional lives with must-have applications like iTunes for entertainment, Google for document management and ADP for payroll.  Research from the Cloud Accounting Institute reveals that after major growth in adoption rates over the past several years, cloud solutions are now considered mainstream and are in wide usage, with 73 percent of survey respondents indicating their companies currently use Software as a Service (SaaS) or Cloud solutions.   With the public Cloud Solutions market expected to reach $210 billion by 2016 according to Gartner, more companies are taking advantage of the cost-savings and efficiencies offered by a Cloud Solution.

1. Cloud 2.0
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it’s getting
CLOUDY

3. CLOUD COMPUTING HAS
BECOME UBIQUITOUS
In a recent study, conducted by the Cloud Accounting Institute:
73% of survey respondents indicate their company currently
uses SaaS or Cloud Solutions
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BOTTOMLINE
All companies will eventually need a cloud strategy

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multiple paths to
the CLOUD

5. WHETHER YOU
IMPLEMENT BIG…
You WILL need a strategy
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…or implement small

6. tailor made SOLUTIONS
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7. PICK AND CHOOSE
SOLUTIONS…
…THAT FIT YOUR BUSINESS and implement on your
schedule
Implementations can be tailored to
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align with YOUR priorities!

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key CONSIDERATIONS
best
practices
process
alignment
security
business
processes
universal
user access
user
management
data
integration

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best practices
save MONEY

10. IT’S MORE THAN JUST
IMPLEMENTING SOFTWARE
Companies NEED to implement best practice business
processes
All business processes should be reviewed and compared to
industry best practices when planning an implementation road map
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11. SYSTEM 1
Security
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Functions
Features
Technology Infrastructure
Business Logic
SYSTEM 2
business process
ALIGNMENT

12. By utilizing a roadmap, key
data such as users, roles,
department IDs and
organizational hierarchies
will operate seamlessly
across all your systems
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data
INTEGRATION

14. CLOUD SOLUTIONS ARE BUILT
FOR EASY INTEGRATIONS…
…but they need to incorporate all aspects of your
business processes
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Armanino’s prepackaged integration solutions
and years of cloud financial integration
experience provide out of the box best business
practice support for your financial solutions

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Internal
CONTROLS

16. ALL CLOUD SOLUTIONS
MUST BE SARBANES OXLEY
(SOX) COMPLIANT
If SOX compliance is kept in mind during a cloud
application implementation, you can save yourself
tremendous time and money by not repeating or re-doing
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overlapping activities
Armanino tackles SOX with a risk-based approach utilizing
a judgmental, not mandated, set of key controls, both
sufficient and consistent with the original intent of SOX.

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universal user
ACCESS

18. BUSINESS SOLUTIONS
SHOULD BE EASY TO USE
As easy as everyday consumer products. Mobile
access and ease of use allow for democratization of
using critical applications.
Cloud solutions have a unique advantage in supporting
universal data access - users can get information that they
need when and where they want it.
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user
MANAGEMENT

20. CRITICAL BUSINESS
NEEDS INCLUDE…
…unified single sign on and access
…a coherent and unified way of managing your users, their
roles, rights and permissions across multiple systems
…processes that support best practice compliance and
governance
The user experience is only as good
as the underlying infrastructure
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CFOs in
CONTROL

22. CFOs ARE NOW TAKING
CONTROL OF BEST-IN-CLASS
IMPLEMENTATIONS…
…and need a partner in this new world to help them
navigate through the new opportunities
40Armanin0o has ove+r 400 successful cloud implementations
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to-date partnering with thought leading CFOs to help them
lead their journey to the cloud.

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