Grant Thornton and ROK Solution establish a strategic partnership, offering their clients even more optimization opportunities for accounting and finance management.

Grant Thornton, leading Audit and Consulting group in France and abroad, and ROK Solution, publisher of a Collaborative Intelligence solution, announce a new partnership oriented towards “B2B2B” services. Grant Thornton and ROK Solution have established a unique partnership, which aims to complement GT’s Consulting services with ROK’s integrated, Collaborative Intelligence Cloud platform. This synergy rests on developing joint business and commercial activities, around Grant Thornton’s “Operational Consulting and Outsourcing” and ROK Solution’s product. Both entities will work together through joint actions on their respective markets. Olivier Bourrouilh-Parège, ROK Solution CEO, comments: “Thanks to this new approach, Grant Thornton takes the position of a visionary actor, pioneering Consulting services of tomorrow: more functional, more reactive and result-driven. This is about providing a better service to experts giving more clarity and flexibility to the organization, so as to optimize performance and achieve economies of scale. I am thrilled by what this great new partnership will bring to our clients.” Christophe Radepont, Associate and Operational Consulting / Finance Transformation service line manager for Grant Thornton adds: “This partnership established with ROK Solution shows a double goal: expanding our externalization offers with an integrated service, and providing consulting services on our client’s strategies for accounting management optimization.” ABOUT GRANT THORNTON FRANCE Grant Thornton is a leading Auditing and Consulting group, with 1450 collaborators in France, including 108 associates, in 23 different offices. They specialize in five sectors: Auditing, Consulting for Finance, Operations & Outsourcing, Tax and Law. Grant Thornton works with dynamic companies (listed on the stock exchange, public and private), and helps them reach their full growth potential, with the help of highly experienced and directly involved associates, and teams delivering expertise services with a very high added value. Members of the Grant Thornton International network constitute a leading Auditing and Consulting organization in the world. Each member of the network is independent in financial, legal and management terms. ABOUT ROK SOLUTION ROK Solution is a Cloud-based Collaborative Intelligence solution which allows all kinds of companies to boost their performance, promote innovation and carry out expansion strategies. The platform allows to model a structure quickly and simply, generate an array of dynamic tasks for collaborators, and output monitoring data on a dashboard for managers. ROK Solution has won 1st place in the Microsoft Finance Innovation award in 2012. Their solution efficiently integrates cutting-edge technology in a user-friendly interface that allows to avoid any transition or migration management.

ROK Solution finalist for Cloud Awards in the “best Cloud service” category

ROK Solution was nominated among the top 4 candidates in the “best Cloud service” category. “Les Trophées du Cloud” (The Cloud Awards) 2013 shine a light on innovative and performant companies with a Cloud Computing solution on the market. These distinctions are awarded to the best actors on the market in 6 categories around cloud-based applications and solutions. The 16 jury members have received 108 applications for this 7th edition of the contest. The Trophées du Cloud event was organized by EuroCloud France, who aims to promote, help organize and strengthen the French Cloud computing market. ROK Solution, a Collaborative Intelligence platform, has been selected among the top 4 candidates in the “best Cloud service” category. Finalist for the contest, ROK Solution presented their platform on May 21st to more than 400 companies. ROK Solution is a Cloud platform allowing organizations to gain a competitive edge, using Collaborative Intelligence at the heart of their operations. We allow companies of all kinds to monitor and optimize their performance by dynamically linking together their structure, processes and risk management within a collaborative network space. ROK Solution has been awarded 1st place in the Microsoft Finance Innovation award in 2012. Our solution properly integrates cutting-edge technology in a user-friendly interface that does not require transition or migration management of any kind.

Switch to Fast Accounting Closing

Producing complete monthly balance sheets as fast as possible (fast closing) has become a major challenge for many finance managers. Even beyond regulation concerns, in an ever-changing economic environment, the aim of fast closing is to provide operational departments and finance management with essential decision-making information which needs to be delivered faster and with greater precision every time. These quality and time requirements make it essential to approach the matter from a different angle, thinking more and more ahead of closing activities, monitoring and controlling the entire closing process in great detail, and in collaboration with operational branches – which are often involved in the critical phases of account closing. Many Finance Directors consider fast closing but do not know how to achieve it. Here is some advice from client feedback on fast closing: Identify processes, actors, information flows, applications and documents involved in the closing process. Establish a complete diagnosis and identify: information and resource bottlenecks, activities yielding no added value, activities that could be moved upstream, issues with coordination, information systems or documents. Are you having trouble with the advice above? No worries. You should already know what is going wrong. Start from the ideal closing process. Yes, the perfect one, finished after 3 days. Rethink and simplify your fast closing process, as if it involved less people, speaking the same language, with mutual objectives and a fully functional IS. Technology is there to help you. Your processes can be operated, monitored and optimized on the fly. The information you depend on can be available even before initiating the closing process (stocks, commitments, invoices, salary costs, mutual account arrangements…) Try things out, measure, perform and start optimizing account closing sustainably. Maybe one day this can all be done in real-time, but for now you are already fast closing. ROK Solution provides many ways to help you achieve fast closing. ROK Solution allows to integrate your company’s structure, systems, processes, ERM and task references into an Integrated Management System. Very soon, you can be presented with a solution that will help you go through the first two steps of your fast closing project. Your processes can be realigned and redesigned easily: you can then focus on the who-what-when, and deploy new collaboration solutions in a few clicks. How does it work? ROK Solution integrates the most advanced process modeling tools, and provides smart content access management with the ROK3™ engine. Stop working day in day out on Aris, Mega or Visio. These overly complex tools waste your time, and fail to take the specificities of your organization into account. Get your licenses refunded, you will save time and money. Take control of your fast closing project. As you launch processes, all the involved people will receive tasks on their ROK dashboard, or by e-mail. Each task includes the information relevant to its realization, such as business rules, instructions, ERP, ERM, access rights and communication with the other actors involved. You can now oversee the entire closing process, visualizing progress and difficulties encountered by your collaborators. You can easily weigh in to help those who need it, and follow-up on tasks that lag behind. You can also measure KPI, identify points of improvement for your processes and deploy them in a few clicks. You are in control.

APDC Paris, July 3rd: “New technology at the service of Finance Management” – ROK Solution experience feedback

APDC Paris (Association of Accounting and Management Directors) has organized an event on “New technology at the service of finance management”. You can react and comment on this event on our blog. Responding to performance goals (costs reduction, risk management and business process optimization), here is experience feedback from two companies that chose to take advantage of innovative technologies and solutions. More than 40 people signed up to hear about company experiences with ROK Solution, more specifically on account closing and internal monitoring, with interventions from: Philippe THIERRY-MIEG, APDC Secretary-General, Administration and Internal Monitoring manager for Financial IS, AREVA Laurent BOULLIAT, Accounting Director, DECATHLON France Eric CASPERS, Deputy manager for Financial Strategy on Auditing, Accounting and Risk management, VILOGIA, IFACI Nord Vice-President David LECLERCQ, Enodia President, Benchmarking Institute Vice-President

ROK Solution meeting “Digital Enterprise and Competitiveness” was a tremendous success

Parisian Hotel George V opened this morning to host the ROK Solution meeting “Digital Enterprise and Competitiveness”. For the occasion, Olivier Bourrouilh, ROK Solution CEO and founder shared his views on competitive challenges and presented ROK Solution to more than 40 attendees. Company competitiveness requires global, interconnected and interoperable user-friendly solutions that support multiple devices and uses Olivier Bourrouilh showed a retrospective on the acceleration of evolution and changes brought by innovation, communication, trade and finance. These changes can be perceived as a real opportunity to improve company competitiveness, provided they access and harness global, interconnected, interoperable, user-friendly solutions for multiple devices and uses. Powerful organization + Innovation strategy = Competitiveness ROK Solution, live from George V Hotel, Paris Olivier Bourrouilh, seconded by Nicolas Vizcaino, presented ROK Solution in a four-point demonstration. HR Management and Integrity: ROK Solution’s true strength lies in the patent tying together the organization structure, user rights and activities, and ensuring synergy and integrity between them. Fast content integration for seamless use: With ROK Solution, instead of starting from scratch, import all the existing company content and processes in a few clicks. Accessibility for everyone, seamless changes: Processes within ROK Solution can be executed in workflow with thousands of collaborators. Every user receives a clear and simple task to perform, in their language. Collaborative Hub: Companies can finally get rid of email clutter and complex ERP access, now managed by job and task-specific references. Interested in learning more? Contact us now and see the event as it happened!

Discover ROK App “Certification of Public Hospital accounts”

Learn how to guide and optimize hospital account certification processes The principle of hospital account certification is part of the “Hospital, Patient, Health and Territory” (HPST) French law, passed in July 2009. The French Direction of Healthcare services (DGOS) and Public Finance General Directorate (DGFIP) have published two methodology guides: The Guide on Hospital Account Reliability Certification The Methodology Guide for Information System auditing These two guides aim to help healthcare facilities meet their requirements in terms of account reliability and IS auditability. ROK Solution integrated every recommendation, mapping, process and tool contained in those two guides within the “Certification of Public Hospital Accounts” ROK App, in order to make them directly applicable, easily accessible and dynamically linked. This ROK App became an essential tool to anticipate and carry out hospital account certification in a comfortable and practical way, while steadily leading teams along the way of digital change. Don’t wait! Discover our ROK App “Certification of Public Hospital Accounts” on the ROK Store now.

Become your own app developer

What for? Create and promote new offers. Complement features that are not supported by your existing app system. – Centralize services and systems that do not communicate, and connect them all together into one app system. Optimize and adapt your tools’ user experience to your business specificities (CRM, ERM, CSNs, Intranet…), and readapt often underused and wrongly utilized solutions to your specific needs. Bring mobility, even to your oldest app components. Connect objects and devices together with your app system. Meet urgent requirements that your IT could not immediately satisfy before, while the market is constantly and rapidly evolving. How? By intuitively modeling your flows thanks to a user-friendly interface driving a powerful exogenous workflow engine By creating your own interactive forms thanks to an built-in editor By creating your own API connections (web services, etc…) with other useful apps and databases thanks to an intuitive rules engine based on natural language. By simply recording and automatically digitalizing navigation on any app into your flows. By customizing the existing app interface and adapting it to your needs By publishing your custom apps in a secure and manageable way onto your collaborator’s desktops, and anywhere in your system, desk and mobile terminals included. What are the benefits? Expected ROI: Interactively create a digital desktop for your collaborators and clients without IT management, within 3 months Create an app to support the development of a new product or offer within 2 weeks Upgraded or optimized tools: E-mail clients Spreadsheets and tables Customer Relation Management Electronic Content & Resource Management Benefits: Your Information System can follow the pace of business evolution. – Orphan process management and operation can be significantly improved. Perspective: Reduce IT costs Reclaim control over application tools With ROK, you can design and layout your processes, push them to various actors via intelligent application solutions that allow interactive input, give access to useful and relevant documentation, monitor working time and activity, describe tasks, broadcast video tutorials, and seamlessly integrate communication (chat, voice, conference call or email) into the entire collaborative structure. By modeling your processes into ROK, you are already developing your app tool and making it available, simply and easily.

ROK Solution raises 1.5 Million Euros

ROK Solution manage to entice new investors and finish their fundraiser with 1.5 Million Euros. Thanks to support from both newer and older investors, ROK Solution aim to boost their growth and deepen their competitive edge, by entering the American market. Collaborative Intelligence aims to allow company collaborators to pool together their know-how, in order to carry out projects or optimize their daily workflow. Such a system relies on combining, structuring, organizing and sharing heterogeneous information and expertise. The ROK platform was designed with this requirement in mind, without having to use multiple tools. Built for policy and decision makers, the platform puts end users back at the center of their own approach and allows to capitalize on non-physical company assets to increase performance and flexibility. ROK is the first all-in-one solution on the market to integrate BPA, BPM, CRM and BAM on a unified 2.0 communication platform. Olivier Bourrouilh, CEO and creator of ROK Solution: “We are proud to announce this new fundraiser, which will help us strengthen our references before we enter the American market. Our unique technology has reached maturity and has received many awards and praise. The entire ROK Solution team is mobilized to carry out our new development plan. Our solution is the only one on the market that can truly act as a performance enhancer.” ROK Solution is determined to keep a leading position on this thriving market. Read article Read article Read article Read article Read article Read article Read article

Formerly on Azure, ROK Solution is now available on Canopy (Atos)

Canopy, the Cloud tech department of Atos, in joint-venture with EMC and VMware, have announced their new exciting collaboration with an innovative, award-winning startup firm: ROK Solution, hosting collaborative software services for a new client in the automotive industry. Thanks to their Trusted Agile Infrastructure solution, Canopy will now offer an on-demand virtual private Cloud infrastructure, allowing ROK Solution to provide their clients with high-quality, flexible hosting services in the country they want, so as to meet requirements in terms of data sovereignty. Canopy’s solution allows to provide and execute virtual machines in no time, based on per-use rates. This solution can easily adapt to fit and host new clients. According to Olivier Bourrouilh, ROK Solution CEO, “Atos Group, and their subsidiary Canopy, are among the principal actors for IT services in the world, and this partnership will allow us to go through with our internationalization strategy, by gaining access to Key Accounts. ROK Solution can then develop innovative and secure Cloud services, and meet their goals in terms of international reach. Our clients will be assured to maintain sovereignty over their data, hosted wherever they want, on datacenters in Europe or globally, in concordance with national and European regulations. In terms of technology and functionality, Canopy Trusted Agile Infrastructure meets the level of performance and flexibility we require to promote innovation and improve return on investment, as well as opportunities of evolution.” Christian Domange, Canopy Southern Europe sales manager and Vice-President weighs in: “Being chosen by ROK Solution as a service provider for their most prestigious clients proves the worth of our solutions’ added value, and the quality of collaboration we can establish with our clients, delivering services that definitely will help accelerate their development.” About Atos Atos SE (European Society), a global actor in IT services with an annual turnover of 8,6 Billion € as well as 76 300 collaborators and partners in 52 countries, provides their clients all over the world with consulting and system integration services, as well as data management and transaction services through Worldline, European leader and global actor among payment service providers. Thanks to their IT expertise and knowledge of the industry, Atos serves clients in a variety of sectors, such as industry, distribution, transportation, public services, healthcare, finance, telecommunication, media and community service. The technology Atos deploys helps accelerate their clients’ development and carry out their vision of a future company. Atos has established a global partnership with the Olympic and Paralympic Games. The group is listed on the NYSE Euronext Paris market and operates under names such as Atos, Atos Consulting, Worldline and Worldgrid. Read more

ROK Solution recruit their new Vice-President

The board of directors at ROK Solution gains a new member, Michaël Tartar. This strategic nomination shows their ability to surround themselves with the greatest experts to support their development in France and abroad. In this position, Michaël Tartar will play a crucial role in developing ROK’s presence on the market. He will have to act on three major aspects: company structure and organization, commercial strategy and marketing. He will also be in charge of supporting and bolstering the company’s digitalization, making ROK Solution more flexible and efficient. Michaël Tartar will be in direct collaboration with ROK solution’s leadership. Michaël Tartar, ROK Solution Executive Vice-President: “With ROK Solution, digital companies are no longer a concept. They have become a reality. We are the only actor on the market who has succeeded in showing its true colors, thanks to our Collaborative Intelligence platform. My mission consists in promoting our unique know-how and generalizing its use among our clients. ROK Solution makes it possible for companies to shift gears and meet their clients’ requirements better, by offering a newer, more flexible approach to digital collaboration.” Michaël Tartar (@Michaëltartar), former senior digital consulting manager for BearingPoint France, has built his career on new technology. He developed the distribution system for the French National Library catalog on emerging Object Technology. He later joined the department of new technology at Euriware, to help launch the first B2B transactional websites. When he joined Andersen, he first developed an Enterprise Application Integration (EAI) solution, for names and brands wishing to keep their Information System up to date. Collaborating with B2C marketing and sales management teams, his technical knowledge has also contributed to develop sales and online client relations, and carry out digital migration processes. Michaël Tartar has graduated from EPITA IT School in software engineering, and obtained an MBA from the Paris Business Administration Institute (IAE). He has contributed to numerous publications on the digital revolution, including his latest book “Digital Transformation: 5 key opportunities for companies (in French)”, published in 2014. Michaël Tartar also gives conferences and keeps publishing on his blog, Michaëltartar.com.

Author: ROK Solution