Do you make your own electric motors or telephones? Probably not. It is not your your core competence and you can buy these for less than you can make them.
The prevailing view in the ERP industry is that you must develop your own financial in house for the following reasons:
To achieve full integration
To eliminate 2 maintenance fees
To reduce integration headaches
To avoid problems when the accounting vendor or the ERP vendor upgrades to a new version
Seradex has taken a unique approach and integrates to industry standard accounting systems. Seradex has links available to ACCPAC, Great Plains, BusinessVision, Macola and QuickBooks. It is Seradex's objective to provide the best software at the lowest cost to our customers. The above mentioned accounting systems all have over 100,000 existing installations - so their products are proven, feature rich and all have their own extensive support networks.
As an example ACCPAC International is a $100 Million US company specializing in financial accounting. Walmart uses the ACCPAC General Ledger! ACCPAC has over 300 3rd party solutions. A software company would have to invest $10's of millions of dollars to develop a feature rich system like this. Quickbooks has sold over 1,000,000 systems based on its ease of use and great customer support.
One of our selling points is that you don't have to switch your accounting system. It is also easy for you to hire local staff that are already familiar with the accounting modules. This saves you time and money. It also saves us from devoting development resources to areas that are already well served.
As a final note many of our competitors that do offer accounting modules are missing key functionality. In many cases things like audit trails, multicurrency, security, and data integrity are missing entirely or very weak.