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Product Direction: CGI Advantage Financial Management
(Financial)
111
Monday 9:45 am – 10:45 am
Type/Level: Update

As trends in government and technology continue to evolve rapidly, CGI continues to adapt our longer-term initiatives for Release 3.11 (and beyond). Join this session for an overview of our current product roadmap, including an overview of CGI’s vision for mobile technology to address the needs of an increasingly mobile workplace, and provide your input into the future direction of the Financial Management solution.

What's New in CGI Advantage Procurement 3.10
(Financial, Procurement)
112
Monday 9:45 am – 10:45 am
Type/Level: Overview

State and local governments continue to look for ways to streamline their purchasing processes, reduce costs and increase efficiency. Release 3.10 provides additional enhancements to address these needs. This session provides an overview of the key enhancements that will be available in the areas of Procurement, Inventory and Vendor Self Service—including a new "shopper" experience for your casual users, the ability to track procurement protests and enhance catalog support.

What's New in CGI Advantage Financial Management 3.10
(Financial)
121
Monday 11:00 am – 12:00 pm
Type/Level: Overview

By listening to clients and analyzing market demands, CGI continues to enrich the functionality provided in Financial Management. The latest enhancements include a new Debt Management module; increased consistency in the chart of accounts usage across the application; streamlined year-end accruals and reversals; and more easily identified recurring transactions.

Product Direction: CGI Advantage Procurement
(Financial, Procurement)
122
Monday 11:00 am – 12:00 pm
Type/Level: Update

Each release adds new capabilities and improves current product features to increase the value of your CGI Advantage solution. This session provides the vision for the future of Procurement, Inventory and Vendor Self Service and highlights key enhancements that are being considered for Release 3.11 and beyond, including mobile technology and expanded options for eProcurement.

Imagine the Possibilities: Grantor Capabilities
(Financial)
131
Monday 1:30 pm – 2:30 pm
Type/Level: Overview

Grant Lifecycle Management (GLM) was introduced in Release 3.8 with an emphasis on tracking grants as the grantee. GLM is already fully integrated with the Cost Accounting module, allowing for grants received from federal or other sources to be tracked from the time of application through post-award and billing. As more governments now deal with grants awarded to service providers, they need the ability to track those grants and the use of granted money as the “grantor.” This session explores possibilities for a complete grants management solution that incorporates both grantee and grantor functionality.

Exploring Opportunities to Streamline Procurement
(Financial, Procurement)
132
Monday 1:30 pm – 2:30 pm
Type/Level: Overview

State and local governments are looking at ways to streamline their various procurement processes. This session will explore commonly underutilized features across CGI Advantage Procurement that you may want to consider to improve your procurement process.

Re-Thinking Your Comprehensive Annual Financial Reporting (CAFR)
(Business Intelligence, Financial)
141
Monday 2:45 pm – 3:45 pm
Type/Level: Overview

The CAFR module was introduced in Release 3.9. This module offers the ability to automate many of the CAFR statements and allows for the elimination of many of the external spreadsheets and systems that are used in statement preparation. This session prepares financial managers for implementation of the CAFR module. The emphasis is on CAFR planning becoming an integral part of year-end planning—facilitating a more streamlined end-to-end process. Planning early also allows organizations to address changes in reporting requirements such as GASB 54.

Manage Spend and Simplify Shopping with Electronic Catalogs
(Financial, Procurement)
142
Monday 2:45 pm – 3:45 pm
Type/Level: Overview

If you haven't rolled out the electronic catalog capabilities within CGI Advantage Procurement, or are only using the functionality on a limited basis, join us to learn how catalogs can help you manage spend, simplify shopping for casual users and provide consistent pricing/line item details for frequently ordered items. This session reviews the process of setting up and maintaining catalogs that are locally-maintained within CGI Advantage as well as the new PunchOut (vendor-hosted) catalog option introduced in Release 3.9. We will feature client examples and best practices for catalog content management and restricting catalog access.

Integrating Budget Information with Financials
(Budget, Financial)
144
Monday 2:45 pm – 3:45 pm
Type/Level: Advanced

The ability to make effective budget decisions is dependent on having accurate financial information ready and available. This session discusses how to successfully manage data to and from CGI Advantage Performance Budgeting and CGI Advantage Financial Management. Learn how new features included in Release 3.9 can help to streamline the data process flows—consolidating financial information and reducing time and effort.

CGI Advantage is Live: Congratulations, What's Next?
(Financial, Technical/Admin)
211
Tuesday 9:45 am – 10:45 am
Type/Level: Advanced

Your organization’s priority business objectives typically drive what functionality is rolled out during your ERP implementation. Despite aspirations to leverage additional functionality after go-live, many capabilities are never implemented. This session presents an overview of underutilized features that would add value for many organizations, as well as how to prepare to implement new CGI Advantage components. Discussion focuses on the planning, timing, impacts and other considerations in implementing new system functionality after reaching steady-state.

“We're Not in Kansas Anymore”: The World of Accounts Payable Joins Vendor Self Service
(Financial, Procurement)
212
Tuesday 9:45 am – 10:45 am
Type/Level: Overview

Vendor Self Service (VSS) has been greatly enhanced with new features and improvements introduced in Release 3.9. This session provides an overview of key VSS features in current and prior releases of VSS as well as planned future enhancements. In addition, this session provides potential strategies to deploy VSS for the first time or extend your current VSS offering.

Increase the Return on Investment in Your CGI Advantage Solution: A Panel Discussion
(Financial)
221
Tuesday 11:00 am – 12:00 pm
Type/Level: Advanced

As many within the CGI Advantage community must “tighten their belts” and do more with less, it’s useful to hear how others have already maximized their solution to accomplish organizational goals. Join our panel for a discussion on how their organizations increased efficiencies and improved cash flow by implementing system solutions and operational changes. All examples are from current releases (i.e. 3.9 and earlier)—meaning these improvement options could also help your organization maximize your current investment in CGI Advantage.

Minimizing Stock Levels through Inventory Replenishment
(Financial, Procurement)
222
Tuesday 11:00 am – 12:00 pm
Type/Level: Overview

Governments continue to face budget shortfalls and are looking for ways to reduce costs across the organization. One area to consider is reducing inventory levels for just-in-time purchases. This session provides an overview of the inventory replenishment options available in CGI Advantage Inventory. Learn strategies and best practices for setting replenishment options and replenishing inventory across physical or virtual warehouses.

Simplifying 1099 Reporting
(Financial)
231
Tuesday 1:30 pm – 2:30 pm
Type/Level: Overview

1099 reporting is too often viewed as a calendar year-end process—with an emphasis on year-end. In reality, planning for 1099 reporting should begin one year in advance. This session will explore 1099 setup options in detail with a special focus on early planning. The end result will be a more fluid and efficient year-end process with fewer problems and more time to spend on other business functions. CGI Advantage clients will discuss best practices and how they have simplified the end-to-end 1099 process.

Innovative Uses of CGI Advantage Inventory: A Panel Discussion
(Financial, Procurement)
232
Tuesday 1:30 pm – 2:30 pm
Type/Level: Overview

Many organizations do not utilize CGI Advantage Inventory to its full benefit. This panel discussion identifies potential additional uses including tracking non-capitalized assets, such as cell phones and law enforcement equipment, as well as tracking and issuing internally government-manufactured items from areas such as prisons.

How to Manage Reorganizations
(Financial, Technical/Admin)
241
Tuesday 2:45 pm – 3:45 pm
Type/Level: Overview

In the state and local government industry, organizational change is constant, resulting from changes in administration and other factors. Departments are often merged, split or eliminated. Services may become centralized within a state or within a department moving from a decentralized model. There is also an increasing emphasis on the shared services model as governments strive to become more efficient. If organizational change is on the horizon, attendees can learn from other organizations that have experienced and managed such change. The session focuses on the implications for CGI Advantage Financial Management, such as chart of accounts, security and workflow changes.

Go Green with Electronic Invoicing
(Financial, Procurement)
242
Tuesday 2:45 pm – 3:45 pm
Type/Level: Overview

Many governments seek to optimize their accounts payable invoice process to provide efficiencies and reduce costs. This session provides strategies to address paper-based invoice processes including an option to scan incoming invoices. Hear about the new electronic invoicing option available in CGI Advantage Vendor Self Service 3.9 and planned future functionality.

Introduction to CGI Advantage Permitting
(Financial, General Interest)
247
Tuesday 2:45 pm – 3:45 pm
Type/Level: Overview

Government organizations performing permitting, licensing and compliance functions often struggle with disconnected and redundant information systems. This leads to inefficiencies and inaccuracies when measuring compliance and processing permits. The CGI Advantage Permitting solution enables governments to take an enterprise approach to permitting while reducing costs via streamlined and automated processes. This session includes a demonstration of the Permitting solution as well as outlines the benefits of an integrated approach.

Beyond the Release Notes: CGI Advantage Financial Management 3.8 and 3.9
(Financial)
251
Tuesday 4:00 pm – 5:00 pm
Type/Level: Overview

2012 has been a busy year for upgrades, with many organizations moving to Release 3.8 or 3.9. This session provides insight into new functionality released in 3.8 and 3.9 and the context for these changes. Take a deeper dive into the enhancements that have broad application for our user community. Whether you are in the midst of an upgrade or already live on one of those releases, this session provides valuable details on enhancements that you can leverage.