Paperless Business Systems: Procuring Financial Control and Flexibility with ‘eRequester’

The Microsoft landscape is currently a combination of legacy systems installed on-premise and new technologies implemented in the cloud. “With Microsoft’s cloud offerings, IT infrastructure can be creatively assembled in various ways, often with less effort rather than building systems internally,” says Randy L. Pape, CEO, Paperless Business Systems. Though CIOs are taking deep interest in new technologies and potential overall cost savings, the underlying concerns emerging out of managing multiple systems and data have posed inevitable challenges. Concerns include user access and usability, security, setup and maintenance, data control and integration between systems.

Headquartered in Seattle, Paperless Business Systems is a web software development and IT consulting firm, specializing in business applications and ERP systems integration, including eprocurement and expense management. The firm works towards maximizing its clients’ agility by providing expert guidance in instances such as system transitions or implementations of new processes. “We are able to provide expertise in requirements analysis, specifications, development, integration and implementation on a project basis,” says Pape. The company’s flagship product, eRequester web-based purchasing and expense management software, integrates with a broad range of ERP solutions from Microsoft, Sage Software, and Intuit among others.

eRequester is a comprehensive suite of cost-effective, turn¬key purchasing and expense management solutions with an easy-to-use web interface. It helps even non-accounting users to manage expenditures, create visibility, and provide internal controls to aid with SOX compliance in connection with purchase and expense requests and approvals. It further facilitates users to submit their requests for approval, using eRequester’s flexible routing logic, to mirror a company’s purchasing policies and ultimately sending out purchase authorizations to vendors, while creating transactions in the accounting system. “eRequester is a powerful addition to financial infrastructure. It not only provides a detailed interface for managing procurement and expenses, but also helps in enhancing information access beyond the account¬ing department,” says Pape.

Moreover, the SaaS version of eRequester runs standalone or integrates with other hosted platforms or onpremises accounting systems using web services, thereby allowing CIOs to leverage any existing infrastructure they have already built to manage their ERP.