Rok presented on November 24, 2020 in collaboration with the company artimis the elis experience feedback on its use of rok for the automated management of its sap access rights as part of the rex usf 2020 digital immersion.
APDC Nord (French Association of Accounting and Management Directors) and IFACI (French Auditing and Internal Control Institute), in partnership with KPMG, CIC Nord Ouest and Skema Business School, have organized a meeting on the theme of “Finance Management and innovative technology”. At the heart of competition and performance challenges (costs reduction, risk management and practices optimization), APDC Nord and IFACI have asked two companies from the North of France to talk about their finance management experience with ROK Solution. The APDC-IFACI conference lasted over 2 hours, and featured speeches from Décathlon on optimizing their accounting closing process, and Vilogia on risk managements and deploying an internal audit solution; Enodia, ROK Solution’s consulting partner, talked about the clear advantages and added value that an optimization project can yield when supported by an innovative solution. Over 100 attendees, many of which were major actors in the Northern regions of France. The event proved very successful, demonstrating companies’ motivation to promote and benefit from innovative technology to gain a competitive edge. Some of the major actors of the French Northern regions who attended the event have expressed their satisfaction with how good and relevant the interventions had been. About ROK Solution: ROK Solution is a Cloud-based Collaborative Intelligence solution that allows companies of any kind to boost their performance, promote innovation and carry out expansion strategies. The platform allows companies 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 properly integrates the latest technology in a user-friendly interface that allows to avoid any transition or migration management.
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
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!
On May 12th, 2015, ROK Solution invited 200 company managers and partners to their conference called “Digital: Year One”. Many exceptional speakers have taken the floor to share their experience, views, and advice. The main theme, Company digitalization, is one of the most high-stakes and pressing matters for professionals in 2015. Not only is it a path to profitable growth that proves to be both reliable and relevant, but also inevitable. Current mutations in economic models are redefining capitalistic balance Gilles Babinet, Digital Champion for France at the European Commission, starts the conference with his analysis of company digitalization around the world, and more specifically in France: Yes, company digitalization has indeed begun, but with a wrong start. Major actors have failed to anticipate the magnitude of this revolution before the rise of sizeable competition. Thus, AirBnB owns no hotels, yet sells more nights today than the five biggest hotel networks in the world. How can we make companies digital? One word: PLATFORM. Digital Companies no longer have an Information System; they have become their own IS. The platform grants flexibility and ease of use. The consequence of this fast evolution is a drastic anthropologic shift that leaves the main actors on the market frightened: company silos are broken, hierarchy structures are flattened down, teams of ten gather around pizza in open space offices… Going digital will make large-scale industrialization possible for your company in any and all sectors, helping optimize processes, report KPI in real time, promote innovation, in other words, become more efficient and competitive. But this digital revolution process is currently lagging behind in France (15th country out of 28 according to a European study). Investments are clearly below what we see in other OECD countries. Why is that? Data culture has not yet settled in France, return on investments for digitalization processes are not known in advance, taxation on risk capital can prove discouraging. And yet, France has seen a few companies break through, albeit too rarely. Cisco CEO John Chambers decided to invest in France after seeing impressive French innovations presented at the CES in Las Vegas. How can we popularize company digitalization in France? Raising Top and Middle Management awareness on the matter, learning how to tell value proposition and onboard technology apart, promoting innovation funding, and introducing data culture into the organization are all crucial steps to this transformation, and it is essential for France to follow them in order to remain a top player. ROK, the perfect solution for digital transformation leaders Daniel Gaujac, Partner for DigitasLBi, the first digital global agency, steps on stage next. DigitasLBi is proud to count Amazon, Google, Coca-Cola Company, American Express, LVMH Group and many others among their clients. Daniel Gaujac delivers an expert statement on what makes ROK Solution the perfect tool to help your company go through its digital transition: ROK Solution works as an App generator. Their concept is to work in synergy with businesses, and allow companies to design the app they need in a simple, intuitive, and time-efficient way. They can then benefit from increased efficiency, optimized processes, automation for time-consuming tasks with no added value, and so on. Two examples: Dirigeants & Partenaires have developed the Gold Mine app, and BearingPoint have created their Asset-Based Consulting branch. What about the costs, then? What are the numbers? Nil. Zero development costs, no maintenance expenses, no additional IT Management costs. The Digital Revolution is now accessible without the need of a multinational-size budget. Décathlon have developed an app for accounting closure in 4 man-days, which allowed them to save 35 000 emails worth of manpower, amounting to 200 man-days. ROK is a Cloud-native solution. ROK was not adapted or ported to the cloud; it was born from Cloud technology, and has been developed natively on it. As a consequence, deploying ROK and developing apps on the platform offers virtually limitless possibilities, both in terms of numbers and adaptability. Collaborative Intelligence is emerging. The benefits of designing your own app do not stop at process optimization. It also allows new offers to emerge quickly, such as BearingPoint’s Asset Based Consulting (detailed below in Erik Campanini’s intervention). As far as IT Management is concerned, ROK Solution bolsters your present software infrastructure with the power of cloud computing and increases visibility on who does what, how and with which tool, dynamically and in real time. The platform also enhances mobility on the entire structure. Daniel Gaujac finished his intervention by highlighting the “Made in France” aspect of ROK Solution, but also showed ROK was the only platform dedicated to company digitalization available on the market today. Dirigeants & Partenaires – Gain a competitive advantage through digitalization. ROK Solution, a new game changer on the market. Kevin Barrett, President of Dirigeants & Partenaires then took the floor, seconded by Alain Portmann, Partner in the same company. Dirigeants & Partenaires aims to support career change for high-level executives through personalized coaching and networking solutions. They mention the benefits of the Gold Mine app, which they have designed in ROK Solution, and explain why this platform is the market’s new game changer. Dirigeants & Partenaires (D&P) deals in the highly competitive market of Outplacement. They aim to stand out by providing a highly qualified, easily accessible professional network to their clients. In order to achieve this, after having been disappointed by available tools and solutions, D&P chose to develop their own professional networking app on ROK Solution’s platform. And so the GoldMine app was born. When you look for a job, you need to start by asking yourself three questions: Who is the right person to get in touch with? Who must I contact to get to this person? What is the best plan to follow to reach them? In order to answer these questions accurately, a great deal of research and database cross-referencing often needs to be done, along with the risks inherently conveyed by the sheer amount of data involved. GoldMine was designed to simplify
Michaël Tartar, Executive Vice-President of ROK Solution, has been invited to take part in the first panel discussion at RIFT, International French Tech Meetings, which took place on October 21st and 22nd. This 2nd edition, focused on the theme of International Development for digital entrepreneurship, saw more than 300 digital industry and innovation professionals gather at Business France. In an interview with Thomas Benzazon, co-founder of Widoobiz, Michaël shared his views on digital transformation, and how important this concept was becoming for companies today, both on a local and global scale. ROK, a solution for company digitalization, has been translated into 10 languages and integrates multiple time zones. Our tool is tailored to support clients who wish to extend their business reach to a global scale, by deploying localized, multilingual and cross-cultural collaborative processes. ROK is available in more than 140 countries, covering every continent!
