What is CODA?

CODA is the choice for finance professionals who need business software and services they can count on. It develops and delivers award-winning Financial Management applications, high quality services and strategic alliances to address client needs, all underpinned by the unrivalled financial and technical expertise of its staff.

It employs more than 550 people worldwide, has its headquarters and R&D center in the UK and delivers global sales, service & support through its own offices, together with a carefully selected network of partners. CODA is part of Unit 4 Agresso NV, which is headquartered in the Netherlands and listed on the Dutch stock exchange.

What does CODA do?

CODA provides best-of-class, financial management solutions.

We do that through developing:

• Award-winning software suites for Transactions, Analysis and Processes that help organizations to streamline and automate their finance processes (from accounting and procurement to reporting and analysis) and to achieve better compliance and corporate governance.
• High quality services to help clients achieve maximum return on their investment in systems, processes and people
• Strategic alliances that ensure our clients benefit from the latest, appropriate technologies and solutions across their organizations

This is backed up by the unrivalled financial domain expertise of our staff across all disciplines of the business.

CODA’s solutions give you:

• Visibility across the organization
• The ability to recognize and adapt to change
• The tools to monitor and control costs throughout the organization
• The ability to introduce best practice in your finance processes.

You are assured success through CODA’s track record of literally thousands of successful implementations across different countries, sectors and technology platforms.

Who for?

CODA’s customers include over 2,600 medium and large user organizations worldwide and across all industry sectors. Its solutions and expertise offer particular benefits for addressing the specific challenges of various sectors, such as: retail, banking & financial services, transportation & logistics, business services, education, not-for-profit organizations and the public sector.

How?

CODA develops, markets and provides software solutions and related services. It delivers global sales, service & support through its own offices, together with a carefully selected network of partners.

CODA’s product offerings are all underpinned by expert consultancy, training and support services. These are delivered by teams of experienced accountants, business analysts and technology specialists who combine their expertise with specific industry knowledge to help organizations implement systems, transform their finance processes and introduce best practice in areas such as compliance, performance management and cost control.

The implementation of CODA is focused around knowledge transfer. Using a tried-and-tested implementation methodology – it involves a series of events that are designed to provide assistance and training to customers, so that they will achieve the greatest benefits for their organization.

The goal of the implementation process is to provide customers with the skills to manage the CODA product suite over the long term. This includes taking advantage of the full functionality of their chosen CODA products and supporting the customer’s in-house technical infrastructure. Although the initial installation and implementation requires the use of CODA’s experienced consultants, the long-term goal is always to make customers as self-sufficient as possible.

What sort of track record does CODA have?

Since 1979, CODA has been helping enterprise and mid-market organizations improve their performance through improved financial management and access to relevant, real-time information. The company has an enviable record of steady, profitable growth, which allows it to invest heavily in the on-going development and support of its software solutions.

CODA remains one of the few software vendors to have continued to grow both revenues and profits in recent years.  Recognition gained for CODA products and services has come from fellow professionals, analysts, commentators, the media and – most importantly – customers. It ranges from accolades for quality (e.g. various “Best software” awards from Accountancy Age) through to the latest accreditations for CODA products against new standards and platforms (e.g. the AFNOR accreditation for compliance with IFRS).

CODA has an enviable record of successfully working with client organizations around the world to implement systems, transform their finance processes and introduce best practice in areas such as compliance, performance management and cost control.

What makes CODA different?

CODA is committed to delivering the highest standards of product innovation and customer service.

The company invests an unusually high proportion of revenue (25%) back into research and development to ensure that its solutions keep pace with evolving customer needs, the market environment and the latest developments in technology.

CODA’s expert consultancy, training and support services ensure that customers can call upon exactly the level of assistance that they need, in order to implement and maintain the optimum level of performance from their CODA solutions, enabling them to maximize the return on their investment.

In a rapidly fluctuating and consolidating marketplace of vendors, CODA has maintained both its independence and strong financial performance, achieving consistent year-to-year growth in revenues and profits, at a time when most competitors have struggled with static or negative growth. Customers purchase solutions from CODA, safe in the knowledge that the company will continue to dedicate both the resources and focus needed to meet their needs – both today and for years to come.

What added-value benefits does CODA offer?

Based on its highly flexible and proven accounting engines, CODA delivers the complete financial transparency needed to monitor and drive performance through real-time business analytics across the enterprise.

This level of strategic control enables organizations to address even the most complex financial challenges and thrive through uncertain economic conditions. In addition to all the power and versatility of CODA’s core products, their effectiveness can be extended by providing secure, global access to flexible, customizable solutions for each individual user.

With CODA, businesses can revolutionize their financial processes. Formerly passive accounting systems are transformed into real-time finance engines, they are able to deliver world-class financial management and help the finance department support strategic change throughout the organization.

What is “Financial Management?"

CODA believes that the finance function is - or should be - an organization’s engine for developing, executing and managing business strategy. It strives to give customers the tools, the processes and the expertise to fulfill that vital role. These range from award-winning systems for transactions to equally sophisticated analysis tools and process control applications, underpinned by expert consultancy, training and support services. CODA offers organizations the most appropriate combination of these, delivering the complete financial transparency to monitor and drive performance more effectively and to make business decisions founded on information that balances.

Why choose CODA Financial Management?

CODA’s ability to deliver true Financial management makes it unique in the marketplace.

• With CODA, customers can manage global, ‘multi-everything’ information (measure and languages) to simplify complex business decision-making.
• It enables decisions to be made on up-to-date, trusted information that allows organizations to respond quickly to changing conditions.
• CODA offers a genuine culture of integration our applications work seamlessly with each other or independently and they integrate with other leading operational systems to maximize the return on your broader IT investment too.