ESSPA is a process automation platform that connects enterprise applications to automate financial business processes. It allows organizations to empower their staff to lead continuous process improvement through automation. This reduces costs by up to 90% by transforming manual tasks into automated processes without errors. ESSPA is an empowering solution that enables businesses to drive their own automation initiatives without relying on costly IT resources.

2. About ESSPA
According to Forrester, “to become agile and efficient, enterprises need both BPM suits and
automation.”
The benefits of business agility include improved back office efficiency, a faster time to
market, higher customer satisfaction and ultimately more revenue.
ESSPA unlocks true business agility by empowering organisations to automate financial
business processes.
Finance leaders are well aware that their valuable people are spending too much time doing
repetitive, manual and error prone tasks. However until now there hasn’t been a way to
break free from these back-office constraints.
ESSPA Finance enables key staff to lead the way in continuous process improvement
through automation.
It enables finance staff to perform timely and cost-effective reporting, as well as good
decision-making, financial transparency, reduction of risk and speed to market – all of
which are fundamental to the organisation’s performance, competitive advantage and
ultimate success.
Legacy finance department back-end processes are also often well overdue for process
improvement and automation.
Finance leaders typically face three barriers to process improvement:
Enterprise applications can be inflexible and costly to change. Data ‘abysses’ between
them must be filled manually or by ‘cut & paste’ – usually involving complex spreadsheets
and too many resources.
Off-shoring may seem attractive as it promises savings of up to 70%, but it’s a big step to
take. It may be unpalatable for data privacy or brand value reasons; human error and
transparency remains an issue and can increase with non-native speakers.
Working with IT resources to create one-off automations is expensive and an inefficient
initiative making visions of automation seem unreachable.
Overcome Barriers to Process Improvement
Source: Forrester Report - The Role Of IT In Business-Driven Process Automation)

3. How Does ESSPA Finance Work?
ESSPA Finance is an IT-compliant, process execution platform that connects enterprise
applications so information can be read, manipulated and reported on. Effectively, it is the
‘glue’ that enables you to leverage. extend and automate these applications.
Unlike other approaches to automation that rely on desktop computers and end-user
applications (presentation layer approach), it works behind the scenes to execute
processes (data layer approach).This means that end-user applications can be changed
when needed, as they are not used to conduct automated activities. Corporate IT
infrastructure architects are comfortable with this approach, finding it better and safer
than working at the presentation layer.
ESSPA Finance is empowering to use because it enables the business to drive its own
process automation and improvement initiatives – without costly or hard-to schedule IT
resources.
Want to automate a tedious and error-prone process? Do it yourself without assistance from
IT. ESSPA connects enterprise applications and provides a simple task scheduling tool that
enables users to replace repetitive manual processes with scheduled automated
processes orchestrated by ESSPA.
When ESSPA is trained to carry out tasks, it does it in a fraction of the time and without error.
It can also monitor the arrival of critical data sources to kick processes off automatically,
24/7. This means your people’s time is freed to be spent on more complex and creative
activities.
Empower the Organisation with ESSPA Finance

4. Organisations are always looking for ways to improve business agility and reduce costs.
Traditionally organisations have either had to go through process improvement programs
and/or offshore entire financial processes such as reconciliation. However while offshoring
reduces costs, it can lead to poor quality work which require work to be checked and fixed
to the point that any initial cost savings are lost.
Now that process automation is easily available without dependence on IT, automation is
the next big step in both cost saving and ensuring quality work delivery.
Cost Savings with ESSPA Automation
70% 70% - Offshoring has been demonstrated to reduce operational costs
by 70%. However errors in work increase and require time to fix.
90% 90% - Process Automation has been demonstrated to reduce
operational costs by 90%. ESSPA can be trained to carry out tasks
instantly and without error leading to a 90% reduction in costs.
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Source: HFS - BPO ON THE BRINK OF A NEW GENERATION: TECHNOLOGY TRANSFORMATION

5. How ESSPA Finance Helps
Reduce risk by consolidate and share frequently
used data sources in a secure, controlled
environment
Achieve business agility and adapt easily to
business change
Reduce costs by up to 90% by transforming
repetitive manual processes into scheduled
automated processes
Increase quality by eliminating human error
Realise efficiency by improving processes and
analysing performance over time
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6. “The capability and solution provided far exceeded our
expectations. Our team are excited about the platform and
possibilities of processes that can be further automated.”
- Roy Blackwell, Telstra, Financial Assurance
Put ESSPA Finance to Work
Finance processes ideal for automation include:
Consolidating revenue from multiple billing systems
Undertaking financial assurance and preventing revenue leakage
Financial reporting suites
Reconciliations and journal processing
Commissions calculations and claims processing
Multi channel payment processing
Almost any repetitive task that manipulates and transforms
data…..to achieve a financial result.

7. ESSPA Finance lets you:
Become an agile and adaptive organisation that outperforms its competitors
Empower your business staff to improve and automate their processes
Eliminate up to 90% of back office costs by transforming repetitive manual processes
into scheduled automated processes
Reduce delays in delivering monthly and quarterly reporting the business relies on
Increase quality by eliminating human error
Monitor improved processes and analyse performance over time
Reduce risk by consolidating and sharing business processing in a secure, controlled
environment
Automate End-to-End
Finance Processes
Because ESSPA is so empowering to use, it enables the business to drive its own process
automation and improvement initiatives – without costly or hard-to schedule IT help.
Since any enterprise application can be connected to any other application, the
possibilities for automation are endless. Ask us about our Automation Pilot and Simulation
Programs to find out more about choosing processes and predicting improvements.
The Agile Advantage

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Phone: 03 9642 2082
E-mail: contact@esspa.com.au
www.esspa.com.au