Nile is an automation solutions provider established in 2011 that has grown to 70 employees. It offers an accounts payable automation solution that provides a single platform for purchase requisition, approval, and invoice processing. The solution uses configurable rules, validation, and workflows to automate invoice receipt, approval, and posting across multiple locations. It offers scalability, security, and flexible deployment options including on-premise and SaaS models.

1. AP Automation System*
Developing a Compelling Model in Vendor
Relationship Management

2. Presentation Outline
 About Nile
 Industry Challenges & AP Automation Solution
 Solution Highlights
 AP Process Product Offering
 Product Architecture & Scalability

3. The Nile Story
• Established in September 2011 by Senior Professionals from Oracle,
Accenture, and IBM
ESTABLISHMENT
• We started in 2011-12 with 10 Employees; In 2012-13 we grew to 25; In
2014-15 we grew to 70
• We are young and agile and with the skill and ability that helps us deliver
to our enterprise customer base, ensuring a very strong customer
retention
GROWTH
• Completed OVER 20 Customer Implementations
• 100% Success rate in implementations and customer references available
ACHIEVEMENT

4. Our Four Pillars
NEWGEN
OPENSOURCE
ON-CLOUDSERVICES
ORACLETECHNOLOGIES
• SOA, OSB, BPM, BPEL, ADF
• Content Management
• WebCenter Portal
• Oracle R12
• Hyperion
• OBIEE
• ODI
• Primavera & Unifier
• PeopleSoft
• Content Management
System
• BPM
•ZapIn (Mobility Platform)
•JBoss
•JBPM
•Mongo DB
•Bonita BPM
•Node.JS
• Invoice Dispatch Automation
INTEGRATION, BUSINESS PROCESS MANAGEMENT, OUTSOURCING, PORTAL, COTS IMPLEMENTATION

5. Our Customer Base

6. Industry Challenges & AP Automation Solution
INDUSTRY CHALLENGES
• Currently Handled Partly through ERP and
partly manually
• Highly Decentralized as stakeholders can be
separated across cities and countries leading
to long approval process and verification
AP AUTOMATION SOLUTION
• Provides a single platform for PR raising and
approval
• Configurable Rules Engine to define
operations for individual accounts with
rigorous Pre-Audit validations for data
accuracy
Purchase
Requisition
Raising PO Receipt of
Material /
Service
Receipt of
Invoice and
Verification
2/3/4 Way
matching of
Invoice
Invoice
Approval Exit

7. INDUSTRY CHALLENGES
• Currently Handled Partly through ERP and
partly manually
• Highly Decentralized as stakeholders can be
separated across cities and countries leading
to long approval process and verification
AP AUTOMATION SOLUTION
• Highly scalable and efficient system with
multi tier architecture capable of handling
heavy loads with constant efficiency
• Configurable Rules Engine to define
operations for individual accounts with
rigorous Pre-Audit validations for data
accuracy
Purchase
Requisition
Raising PO Receipt of
Material /
Service
Receipt of
Invoice and
Verification
2/3/4 Way
matching of
Invoice
Invoice
Approval Exit
Industry Challenges & AP Automation Solution

8. INDUSTRY CHALLENGES
• Highly decentralized as stakeholders can be
separated across cities and countries
• Geographically separated stakeholders
resulting in long verification cycles
AP AUTOMATION SOLUTION
• Configurable Rules Engine to define
operations for individual accounts with
rigorous Pre-Audit validations for data
accuracy
Industry Challenges & AP Automation Solution
Purchase
Requisition
Raising PO Receipt of
Material /
Service
Receipt of
Invoice and
Verification
2/3/4 Way
matching of
Invoice
Invoice
Approval Exit

9. INDUSTRY CHALLENGES
• Manual Intervention
• Inaccuracy
• De-centralized
• Lower Efficiency
• Traceability of Invoice
• Error Prone due to Human centric
AP AUTOMATION SOLUTION
• Fully Automated System
• OCR and email reading facility
• Centralized processing with configurable
rule engine for invoice approval
• Simple 3 stage process with end to end
traceability
• Exception Handling, Notifications and
escalations Workflows
Industry Challenges & AP Automation Solution
Purchase
Requisition
Raising PO Receipt of
Material /
Service
Receipt of
Invoice and
Verification
2/3/4 Way
matching of
Invoice
Invoice
Approval Exit

10. INDUSTRY CHALLENGES
• Manual Exception Handling
AP AUTOMATION SOLUTION
• A Fully Integrated solution with Current ERP
system for 2/3/4 way matching
• Exception Handling, Notifications and
escalations Workflows
Industry Challenges & AP Automation Solution
Purchase
Requisition
Raising PO Receipt of
Material /
Service
Receipt of
Invoice and
Verification
2/3/4 Way
matching of
Invoice
Invoice
Approval Exit

11. INDUSTRY CHALLENGES
• Restrictive Workflow and exception handling
AP AUTOMATION SOLUTION
• Anywhere / Anytime access to Invoices and
approval through Web Browser
• Multi-level workflows to approve invoices at
different levels and departments across the
organization backed by SLAs
Industry Challenges & AP Automation Solution
Purchase
Requisition
Raising PO Receipt of
Material /
Service
Receipt of
Invoice and
Verification
2/3/4 Way
matching of
Invoice
Invoice
Approval Exit

12. Solution Highlights – an Overview
Business Benefits:-
 Centralized processing of Invoices from multiple locations contrary
to the traditional decentralized model
 Anywhere / Anytime access to Invoices and approval through Web
Browser
 Provision to auto upload Invoices and Documents into the system
through pre-configured mail ids
 Provision to bulk scan invoices and supportive documents with
advanced document capture
 Cloud based offering to reduce Infrastructure Costs
 Dynamic dashboards and Intelligent reporting
Technical Benefits:-
 Modular Architecture and Interoperable with multiple ERPs / home
grown systems
 Rigorous data validations on scanned information to ensure reduced
errors and increase accountability during approval
 Multi-level workflows to approve invoices at different levels and
departments across the organization backed by SLAs
 Document repository to maintain all invoices and relevant
documentation in a pre-defined folder structure

13. AP/P2P Process Automation Offering
Procure to Pay (AP) Solution AP-Vendor Portal
Vendor Onboarding
Travel & Expense
Invoice Archival
Intelligent Capture (IPS)
Purchase Requisition
Business Activity Monitoring Engine
 Purchase Requisition
Creation & Approval
 Quote Comparison &
approval
 PO Approval
 Invoice Scanning
 E Invoice Capture
 Invoice Processing
 ERP Integration
 Approval Flow
 PO, Non PO & Recurring
Multi way validation
 Invoice Posting
 Email & Alerts
 Escalations
 Straight thru processing
 Query Desk

14. Dashboard

15. AP Process Products in AP Process
ERP
Data
Extraction
Verification
Autoposting
ToERP
Multiwaymatch
Real Time Monitoring (BAM)
Emails Notifications Escalations Alerts
Exception Handling
Processing
Approvalsfrom
Dept.
Document
Archive
Content
Management
PaymentStatus&
Tracking
BPM
BulkScan
(MailRoom)XML/EDICapture
XMLIdentification
Engine
IPS
VendorPortalInitiation
Capture

16. Security
Enterprise Class
Security
Digital Signature/
Encryption
Maker Checker
Access
Rights
LDAP/SSO Audit Trails/Reports
SSL/HTTPS
Password Policies
Secure Web Layer
SSL/HTTPS support for document
upload and web access
Configurable Password
Policies
Extensive Audit-trails at user, folder and repository levelsLDAP authentication and single sign-on support
Dual authorization
scenario in user-group operations
PKI and E-sign support
Multiple level of access rights like
read, create, modify , delete , print
etc.
Tested for penetration testing,
cross site scripting etc
Security

17. English
Japanese
Chinese
Arabic
Spanish
Hindi
Portuguese
Flexible Deployment Options
 Enterprise Deployments leveraging
customer’s infrastructure – on leading
AS/OS/DB
 Deployment on Open Source platforms
 Vanilla deployments for mid-market
 Deployment in SaaS model
 Localized for different countries
• App servers: BEA, Oracle, WebSphere, JBOSS
• Databases: SQL, Oracle, PostgreSQL
• OS: Windows, Solaris, AIX, Red Hat Linux, HP-UX
• Webserver: Apache, WebSphere, Jboss
• Browsers: IE, Mozilla, Netscape
Platform Agnostic

18. Scalability
 N Tier Scalable Architecture
 Omni Flow BPM suite is not a resource hungry
application
 SOA & J2EE compliant
 Clustering & Farm mode deployment
 Support for Multi-location deployment
 Remote Image Server
 Designed for High Performance
 2.4 million transactions per 8 hrs. / day
 2000 request per min / CPU
 500 Concurrent Users/ CPU with average
response time of 1 sec
Sample Load Test Results
Scalability

19. Deployment Architecture
Business User
1
Business User
n
Web Server
Farm
App Server
Farm
DB Server
Farm
XML JDBC
Process
Modeler
Shared
Disk
Array
Process
Servers
Mailing
Agents
Archival
Utilities
Web Server
1
Web Server
n
App Server 1
App Server n
DB Server 1
DB Server n
SMS Server 1 SMS Server n
Image Server 1 Image Server n
Replication
Scheduler
Business User
2
Deployment Architecture

20. Multi Tenant Architecture
Region 1
Region 2
Region 3
Common
Process with
Different UI
Separate
Process
Separate
Process
DB Server1
Cust1
Schema1
Cust2
Schema2
Cust3
Schema3
iBPMS
Region 4
DB Server2
Cust3
Schema3
Multi Tenant Architecture

21. Thank you for your time and this
opportunity!