IFAS

Streamline your organization’s business processes with the IFAS solution from SunGard Public Sector. 

IFAS – the Integrated Financial and Administrative Solution – is a Web-based ERP product designed to help improve efficiencies in your organization. The software leverages the latest technologies including Web architecture, workflow systems and integrated reporting to empower administrators and end users alike. Our public sector focus fosters a support staff which understands how organizations like yours operate.

Customers of IFAS will have the opportunity to implement the financials segment of SunGard Public Sector’s latest product suite, ONESolution, as an upgrade. Scheduled for release in 2009, the ONESolution financials & HR component will elevate IFAS to the next level, integrating a role-based user interface, consistent user experience and a single, shared database across your organization.

Features

Financials

  • Implements a Web browser-based, platform-independent system that is easy for staff and customers to use
  • Delivers a centralized financial database with budget forecasting, purchase orders, accounts payable, accounts receivable, fixed assets, human resources and payroll
  • Supports multi-fund budgetary accounting to achieve compliance with all federal regulations and accounting standards
  • Supports a separate job/project/grant ledger for tracking and reporting multi-year and multi-funding source activities
  • Provides security and audit trails to limit access and help enable reporting on changes within the solution

Human Resources & Payroll

  • Allows users to setup, pay and track in real-time an individual who is in multiple positions
  • Recalculates mid-year contract changes automatically and either pays out the balance or spreads the balance over the remaining pay periods
  • Supports multiple leave types varying among different employee groups based on an individual’s assignments
  • Distributes the charges for the payroll and benefits into the General Ledger based on each employee’s pay assignment
  • Offers the ability to either charge or not to charge benefits to specific account numbers within a distribution spread for a specific employee on a specific pay assignment (job)

Benefits

  • Helps reduce IT costs for your organization by providing a Web-based solution
  • Helps improves business processes through workflow-enabled module
  • Provides a configurable user-specific dashboard with embedded OLAP reporting for real-time key information, enhanced strategic planning, and assistance with budgeting and forecasting
  • Offers executive report writer across all modules
  • Allows electronic documents to be attached to database records for easy retrieval, research and reporting
  • Provides self-service modules such as electronic timecards, Employee Online and Applicant Online
  • Integrates with Office, Adobe and PROPHIX business intelligence tools
  • IFAS Finance

    Used to generate many financial and management reports, the General Ledger is the heart of IFAS, the primary area where budgets are created.

  • IFAS Human Resources

    The IFAS Human Resources suite is a comprehensive applicant/employee information module.

  • IFAS Productivity Tools

    SunGard Public Sector's IFAS product suite goes beyond meeting the needs of finance and human resources departments and helps exceed expectations at every stage with a full complement of productivity tools.