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Phase II (Sep 93 - Mar 94): Financial Accounts investigation

' ... what we've got ... is the MO application, if you like, which is Powerbuilder and then you've got Sybase database. Now this is the amazing luck we have had with this, in fact it's almost too good to be true. We use a general ledger product called Sun, Sun Account. ... Which Computer recently did an evaluation of accounting packages and said that for international companies Sun Account was the best, so that was good, but we've actually taken the time out over the last few weeks to go and look at other packages as well. It is looking that Sun Account is the best and it has got an accounts receivable module and an accounts payable module. Now amazingly, they have just brought out another version that runs on Sybase. ... It's too good to be true.

So what we can have is, ... there's the Sun Account, accounts receivable, accounts payable and we can use the general ledger as well. So when you create a policy on the Multinational system, it would put all the underwriting data on here and then it would just address that database there and create an outstanding receivable saying that we are owed this much money for this premium and then you automatically get all the functionality of the Sun system. It provides you with all the credit control, and aged debtors and all this kind of stuff.'

X022 page 007.01 (tape 01.2.01) Gordan Notes/Trans/Tape 27/01/94

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