Esker on Demand Automates GFE Supplier Invoicing
GFE, a French corporate accounting firm, has chosen an Esker on Demand solution to
automatically capture and archive supplier invoices received from customers.
Madison, WI (Vocus) January 11, 2010 –- Esker, the leader in document process automation solutions, has
announced a new contract with GFE (Gestion France Enterprises), a corporate accounting and financial auditing
firm with five offices in the southeast of France. GFE has chosen Esker on Demand for seamless integration with
its Cegid Expert accounting application to automate incoming supplier invoices from its customers.
Choosing a SaaS (software as a service) solution helped the company avoid a large initial investment and lengthy
implementation period typically involved with traditional software solutions. This new contract reinforces the
strength of Esker’s position in the supplier invoice automation market and demonstrates Esker’s ability to
effectively meet the requirements of the accounting industry.
Time for a change
With over 1,500 corporate customers, GFE needed to reduce the costs of invoice reception and improve
consistency. Prior to Esker on Demand, GFE would collect company financial records by traveling out to visit the
customer or through customer intermediaries who either dropped them off at a GFE office or sent them by mail.
The document collection process created a considerable drain on resources, including travel expenses and
occasional document loss.
To fix this issue, GFE chose Esker on Demand to automate the reception of supplier invoices from its customers.
Today, when a supplier invoice is scanned in by a customer or a GFE employee, an image of the supplier invoice
is automatically sent to the Esker on Demand platform where data is extracted and made available for validation
through a web interface. Once the user has validated, the extracted data it is automatically uploaded into Cegid
Expert and both the image and extracted data are archived in the GFE customer portal f