Leading the team
Manie Lombard, Chief Director: Finance.
Subject Matter Experts Team
A Subject Matter Expert (SME) look after one or a few of the business areas covered in OCF. They are from left to right:
Annemi Murray: Budget Control, General Ledger and Project and Grants
Riaan Basson: Procure to pay and Inventory
Gabriel Scheepers: Accounts receivable (Debtors)
Louma Engelbrecht: Assets
Caro Olivier: Cash Management
Reinet Uys: Expenses
Elizebeth de Beer: Training
Workstreams
Seven interdivisional work streams – business optimisation, ICT architecture, data, testing, training, change management, and Visions implementation – have been established to pave the way for implementation. The work streams improve understanding and cooperation between divisions and build community in various environments.
Implementation partner: Visions
SUNFin's implementation partner is Visions. Founded in 1995, Visions is a South African-owned company with subsidiaries in the UK.
Visions is a Gold Partner of Oracle, the software vendor for SUNFin, and a preferred partner in Higher Education across Europe, the Middle East and Africa (EMEA). The consultancy services universities across these countries and is a trusted advisor to many of South Africa's higher education customers.
Visions has in-depth knowledge of South African higher education requirements and processes, a proven track record of successful implementations within Universities and has local expertise and a local footprint. Visions participates with institutions and authorities regarding legislative and statutory higher education requirements.
Software vendor: Oracle
Oracle is one of the best business software providers, with a broad portfolio of solutions for companies of all sizes. For the third consecutive year Oracle ERP Cloud has been named by world-renowned research and advisory company Gartner, as leader in Gartner's “Magic Quadrant for Cloud Core Financial Management Suites for Midsize, Large and Global Enterprises". The vendor has more than 25 years' experience in higher education and serves more than 11 million students.
Oracle has:
- 25 000 active user group members;
- customers in 47 countries;
- more than 1 600 higher education application customers; and,
- more than 11 000 higher education technology customers.
The company invests more than $5 billion annually in research and development.
While sharing best practices and leveraging technologies across industries and solutions, Oracle gives global support on a 24/7 basis. The company has 19 global data centres and is still growing. The company works with institutions of all types and sizes.
