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20+ Years Experience
UK + North America
First UK Sage X3 Partner
As organisations grow there are competing pressures on decision making, transaction processing, and the use of capital. Small day-to-day frictions can become big issues quickly.
Each new entity, subsidiary, acquisition, or joint venture adds reconciliation burden, intercompany complexity, and consolidation time. Finance teams that manage this manually find that growth accelerates their workload faster than their headcount can keep up with.
The platform decision should follow the business model, not the other way around. The two paths most relevant to scaling mid-market organisations are Sage Intacct and Sage X3 — each optimised for a distinct growth profile.
Native multi-entity consolidation with automated intercompany eliminations. Dimensional reporting that cuts across entity, project, department, and geography without a data warehouse. Revenue recognition built for subscription and project-based models. Designed to add entities without adding headcount.
Full operational ERP for organisations where finance complexity is inseparable from supply chain complexity. Inventory valuation, landed cost, production costing, and multi-site manufacturing, all feeding a single ledger. X3CloudDocs delivers document automation on top.
Organisations with well-implemented modern ERP typically achieve a 3–5 day close cycle. The benchmark for AI augmented organisations is real-time visibility with a single-day formal close.
Payables, receivables, and expense processing that routes automatically without manual intervention — with human review reserved for exceptions. This is achievable with the right platform and automation configuration – no AI required.
Finance leaders at mature businesses present rolling 13-week forecasts with AI-enhanced variance commentary, rather than retrospective monthly packs. This shifts the finance function from historian to strategic advisor.
Find out where your back office is holding the business back — and what a realistic path to resolution looks like. Our assessment benchmarks your current position against mid-market peers and identifies the highest-priority gaps.
