Epicor Software Corporation said the company will demonstrate its industry-specific next-generation Epicor 9 enterprise resource planning (ERP) solution for the first time in Bahrain at the ICAI Conference on March 12.

A leading provider of enterprise business software solutions, Epicor will unveil the 'Epicor for Financial Services' together with its local partner Incarnate ICT.

The company said its senior director of product marketing Matt Muldoon will be presenting a lecture on the topic “Leveraging Technology for Better Financial and Risk Management.”

The discussion is aimed at educating local businesses on how they can use technology to improve accounting and risk management processes.

“The financial services industry is under pressure to look at ways of improving governance, risk and compliance management, while reducing costs at the same time,” said Muldoon.

'Many businesses in the Middle East are running large, expensive and aging accounting systems, or are stuck with cumbersome manual processes—not realizing that there are other options,' he pointed out.

'Any financial services organization that is serious about growing its business should have a financial platform that is cost-effective in the long term yet flexible enough to change with the business where and when needed,' he added.

'As the financial capital of the region, Bahrain is an important hub for Epicor, and with more than 400 customers and 15 partners in the Middle East, we are well placed to support local businesses across all industries,' said Basil Daniells, regional director for Epicor in the Middle East, Africa, Turkey and India.

'We have been present in the Middle East for over ten years and during that time we have helped organizations to improve business processes and grow operations locally, regionally and internationally.'

'Business technology is an important part of local BCICAI's members' roles today and we want to help them understand how they can better use technology to their advantage when managing finances and risks within their organizations,' said BCICAI chairman Alok Gupta.

'As a global company with experience of solving financial challenges for small and large businesses we believe that Epicor is well placed to advise our members during the event this week.'

Incarnate ICT (ME), Epicor's authorised partner in Bahrain, will be jointly participating for the event. Incarnate ICT has always focussed on achieving excellence by providing customer designed, client specific, result oriented IT solutions for a diverse set of clients.-TradeArabia News Service