GCE brings innovative financial management solutions to the federal government - and has been doing so for nearly ten years.

Now we’ve taken a bold step forward - offering federal agencies and departments a Financial Management Line of Business (FMLoB) Shared Service Provider (SSP) Appliance.

In stark contrast to the traditional ERP implementation model, GCE’s SSP Appliance offers a federal financial system that is pre-configured and pre-integrated within a COTS framework. The result is accelerated time-to-value, a newfound ability to standardize on best practices and greatly reduced risk.

Wrapped with comprehensive migration services, hosting and ongoing maintenance to provide a turn-key financial management solution - all for a predictable monthly cost - GCE’s SSP Appliance frees agencies to focus on their core missions while realizing new levels of efficiency and compliance.

GCE’s SSP Appliance Overview

Your organization’s core missions center on the successful delivery of agency services - whether that’s securing the nation’s borders, helping American workers be more effective, rebuilding infrastructure or any of thousands of other critical tasks that fall within the purview of Federal agencies.

Fulfilling core missions is key, but there are also fundamental operational processes that must be attended to, especially in the financial arena. The challenge here is significant: achieving the highest levels of financial responsibility, accountability, transparency and stewardship. That’s why the "care and feeding" of your financial management systems should not be on your to-do list - and now, it doesn’t have to be.

Why start from scratch? Replacing your aging and unwieldy financial management solution with a risky, high-cost custom deployment of a COTS financial management solution requires a huge commitment of personnel and financial resources.

With GCE, there’s a better way. Our Financial Management Line of Business (FMLoB) Shared Service Provider (SSP) Appliance is an innovative business model that takes an entirely new approach to enterprise resource planning (ERP) system upgrades and/or replacements.

The SSP Appliance offers a robust set of financial management capabilities and IT support as a service and for one predictable, monthly fee that includes:

  • A fully functional, FSIO- and FFMIA-compliant financial management system based on Oracle Federal Financials Suite, MarkView invoice management, Informatica business intelligence tools and others
  • Pre-built compliance framework designed to support effective internal controls and segregation of duties
  • Fine-tuning and continuous alignment with OMB and other federal standards organizations, even as policies, standards and directives evolve
  • Beginning-to-end change management, testing, data migration and training
  • Ongoing application management, operations and maintenance services
  • Robust, high-performance server, storage and network hosting services
  • Knowledgeable Help Desk support
  • Regular software and hardware upgrades, including major new application software releases and the latest server, storage and networking technology

Optimize your budget with GCE’s SSP Appliance: a shared financial management service that can be up and running in a timeline measured in months, rather than years - while providing all the financial management capabilities your agency needs.

What Makes GCE’s SSP Appliance So Different

GCE’s SSP Appliance is a proven solution, wrapped in a unique service model. Consider the SSP Appliance difference:

Traditional approachGCE SSP Appliance
Perform detailed COTS solution evaluation and selection process Deploy a proven, best-of-breed COTS application software platform designed to meet current and future financial system management requirements
Undergo months of interviews and requirements gathering to document current processes Leverage pre-configured software that follows currently defined and standardized best practices for financial management and leverages a pre-built compliance framework to ensure effective internal controls and segregation of duties
Conduct a painstaking analysis of "standard" system capabilities and specific parameter setting and fine tuning to comply with policies, standards and directives Adopt a fully operational solution that is continuously aligned to current and future mandates from OMB and other agencies
Offer pre-defined, application-centric classroom and online training without regard for the need to change processes and, perhaps, job descriptions Leverage a robust, proven change management methodology
Follow a do-it-yourself "migrate, deploy and manage" IT model, which consumes valuable personnel resources and diverts attention from core mission activities Choose a worry-free end-to-end managed service approach so that agency resources and personnel can put more focus on core missions
Monitor and respond to security patches, software upgrades, regulatory changes and more Rely on a trusted, knowledgeable partner - GCE - to shoulder the burden of ongoing maintenance across all areas of the solution

Benefits of GCE’s SSP Appliance:

  • Fully comply with audit standards and federal mandates for financial management solutions - and stay aligned as new rules are introduced
  • Improve efficiency by promoting business process standardization and providing state-of-the-art tools that automate manual processes and eliminate bottlenecks
  • Reduce risk by following built-in internal controls, which are enforced via automated, standardized processes, integrated workflows and clearly defined segregation of duties
  • Bring greater transparency to financial decision-making by real-time capture and recording of financial events
  • Meet OMB guidance that requires investigation of commercial SSP models
  • Improve decision-making with a business intelligence solution that can be used by financial experts and novice users across your agency
  • Improve return on investment (ROI) by interfacing with existing systems, as appropriate