“The CFO’s View of Accounts Payable: Cash is King” available for complimentary download this week

Rochester, MN March 24, 2009 — http://www.metaviewer.com – Metafile, a Minnesota-based content management firm dedicated to providing paperless financial innovations, is helping detail how accounts payable (AP) departments can help offset the adverse effects the current economic crisis is having on companies by implementing best practices in cash management.

“The CFO’s View of Accounts Payable: Cash is King,” an Aberdeen Group benchmark study report, details how the unique position of accounts payable department’s cash management practices can benefit their company as a whole.

“Best cash management practices include everything from extending Days Payable Outstanding (DPO) to capturing early payment and volume discounts,” states the report.  “If properly automated, the typical accounts payable department is uniquely positioned to oversee and integrate these tactics.”

In total, The Aberdeen Group’s study evaluated 160 enterprises.  The enterprises deemed as best in class based on the overall cost experienced in processing single invoices reported marked similarities in accounts payable processes:
•    62% leveraged online or web-based reporting tools
•    69% possessed enterprise- level visibility in account payable processes

CFO’s and finance managers remain updated regarding every crucial financial detail within their companies

Rochester, MN February 19, 2009 — http://www.metaviewer.com – Metafile, a Minnesota-based content management firm dedicated to providing financial innovations via paperless financial automation solution MetaViewer, has debuted the MetaViewer Document and Workflow Monitor.  Designed as an advanced information management solution, The MetaViewer Document and Workflow Monitor provides CFO’s consistent, real-time updates regarding the state of their companies financial processes.

It is crucial for CFO’s, whose primary responsibility is to ensure the fiscal well-being of their company, to be updated consistently on each detail that makes up the big financial picture of their company.  Details necessary for the CFO to monitor include everything from invoices approaching deadline to processes that may be stalled in workflow.  Because of a CFO’s overwhelming need for information, they often find themselves overly reliant on paper-based reports.

“Like a virtual desktop dashboard, the MetaViewer Document and Workflow Monitor provides paperless reports regarding a company’s critical financial workings,” states Jim Mandt VP of Technical Services for Metafile.  “Much like the gauges of an engine provides instant feedback on engine performance, the MetaViewer Document and Workflow Monitor provides instant full visibility for all financial processes.”

Time spent uncovering elusive financial information hidden in overwhelming stacks of financial reports eliminated with Metafile’s MetaViewer PrintStoreTM Report Archive and Analyzer

Rochester, MN February 12th, 2009 — http://www.metaviewer.com – Metafile, a Minnesota-based content management firm dedicated to providing financial innovations via paperless financial automation solution MetaViewer, has debuted The MetaViewer PrintStoreTM Report Archive and Analyzer.  The latest in a line of advanced information management solutions by Metafile, The MetaViewer PrintStoreTM Report Archive and Analyzer is designed to enable CFO’s full visibility of all vital information in any order, subset, graph or chart they need today, tomorrow and into the future.

In a position whose key responsibility is to ensure the fiscal well-being of an entire company, CFOs often find themselves buried in a pile of paper-based reports and spreadsheets. These reports contain information vital for the CFO to be aware of when analyzing and reporting on the current or new fiscal direction for their company.

“By providing the ability to automatically sort, summarize, search and graph information found in their vital reports, the MetaViewer PrintStore™ Report Archive and Analyzer can help financial executives find the information they need instantly without paper and without producing multiple reports from the same information,” states Jim Mandt, VP of Technical Services for Metafile. “This is true even if those reports contain hundreds of fields and thousands of pages.”

Fostering Donor Relationships Help Minnesota Youths of Color Achieve College Dreams

Rochester, MN October 21, 2008 — http://www.ResultsplusSoftware.com — ResultsPlus, a fundraising software solution from Metafile, is enabling large and small non-profit organizations to automate nearly all mission critical fundraising activities with minimum IT involvement. Page Education Foundation, utilizes ResultsPlus to help Minnesota youth of color realize their college dreams.

Page Education Foundation, located in Minneapolis, Minnesota, is a small, non-profit organization dedicated to the advancement of Minnesota youths of color. By fostering positive attitudes about education and offering financial assistance for college, the foundation has helped send over three thousand students to college in the past 20 years.

Unfortunately, because the foundation was using an antiquated software system that did not have the ability to maintain detailed donor information, they were challenged when it came time to plan and target future fundraising initiatives.

The system Page Education Foundation was using did not even have the capability to provide foundation employees specific information about donor’s interests or to record specific causes donors had contributed to in the past. Without specific donor data, requests for donations and acknowledgement letters, a critical communication which helps the foundation seek support for Minnesota youth interested in attending college, could not be customized to the letter recipients.