The Finance Director's Guide to a Truly Connected Back Office

Every vendor in this category says their platform is "connected." Most of them mean a nightly file transfer between two systems that were never built to talk to each other.

Before you sign anything, know exactly what to ask any vendor to tell the difference. This guide gives finance directors and CFOs at counties and cities with $20M-$500M budgets a five-question scorecard, plus the red flags that show up in a consolidation pitch before the contract does.

Download the guide to see:

• The five-question scorecard: Fund accounting depth, audit and compliance, implementation time, grant tracking, and total cost of ownership.
• Red flags in a consolidation pitch: What "integrated" really means, and how vendor lock-in gets sold to you as efficiency.
• How San Mateo County, CA and the City of Ames, IA answered these questions for themselves.