Purchase the gtnews Treasury Management Systems Survey 2011

The gtnews.com 2011 Treasury Management Systems Survey is an invaluable guide to the range, use and effectiveness of treasury management systems (TMS) around the world. It is an essential reference for corporate treasury teams wishing to benchmark their own systems use, as well as for bank and other FI teams who wish to understand more about this crucial market.

Key findings in the 2011 survey include:

• Almost two-thirds (63%) of survey respondents indicate that their organisations use a TMS. Slightly more than half (55%) of organisations use a system built by a third party provided service, while 8% use a system built in-house.
• The majority (55%) of companies’ TMS are located in-house, whereas 44% is delivered as a software-as-a-service (SaaS). SaaS delivery is most prevalent in Asia-Pacific where it makes up 61% of TMS installations.
• The most popular system in use is SunGard AvantGard: 29% of the survey respondents have this system in place. SAP and IT2 were the next most popular, used by 12% and 11% respectively. A total of 18% of respondents used one of four systems offered by Wall Street Systems: City Financials (7%); Treasura (5%); Wallstreet Suite (4%); and Trema (2%).
• Cash flow forecasting, electronic bank account management (eBAM) and risk management were areas in need of functionality improvement, according to 51%, 48% and 40% of survey respondents, respectively. The same ‘top three’ ranked additional functionalities are evident regardless of location of the survey respondent’s organisation.

The 50-page report includes 47 charts and tables and expert commentary.