Breaking Down Language and Data Walls: How a Globalized EPM Engine Empowers Multinational Enterprises for Agile Operations_News_北京智达方通科技有限公司

In the game of global operations, multinational enterprises face two core challenges: First, the fragmentation of language and systems leads to inefficient collaboration and compliance risks. Second, the complexity of currency management causes financial data delays, resulting in distorted decision-making. Traditional EPM systems often struggle with these issues—localized versions operate in silos, making data interconnection difficult; currency processing relies on manual operations, turning monthly closing into a difficult battle. Intcube EPM facilitates the accelerated construction of a globalized system, successfully transforming from a single-region management tool into an intelligent core supporting global operations, helping more enterprises resolve the dilemmas of global management.

Multi-language Support: Deeply Embedded in Business Scenarios

Regional teams of multinational enterprises often encounter challenges arising from language barriers in their daily operations. They frequently have to use system interfaces in non-native languages, which not only reduces operational efficiency but also frequently leads to operational errors, significantly increasing training costs and error correction expenses. Furthermore, to meet local regulations and compliance requirements in various regions, separate system instances often need to be deployed. This practice further exacerbates the separation between systems, creating data silos and making it difficult for group headquarters to obtain a real-time, unified global perspective, thereby affecting the accuracy and timeliness of overall strategic decisions.

Intelligent Adaptation of Excel Add-in

In global finance and business workflows, spreadsheets are undoubtedly one of the core operating interfaces highly relied upon by practitioners. Based on this need, the Excel add-in of the Intcube EPM system achieves intelligent multi-language adaptation at the business logic layer. For example, a user in Tokyo inputs "売上高" (Sales Revenue) using the Japanese version of the add-in. The underlying system, leveraging semantic recognition technology, accurately maps it to terms like "销售收入" in Chinese or "Revenue" in English. This design ensures that teams in different regions worldwide, even when operating through interfaces in their familiar languages, ultimately rely on a single, unified source of data logic, with completely identical data definitions and processing methods, eliminating data definition ambiguities caused by language differences.

User-Controlled Browser-Level Language Switching

Intcube enables the decentralization of system language settings from IT administrators to end-users, granting business personnel more flexible and autonomous operational space. Users can easily switch the system display language with one click in their browser according to personal needs, greatly enhancing the user experience in multilingual environments. In a practical scenario, a business expert from headquarters assisting the Berlin team with a budgeting task can instantly switch the interface to German mode, working directly and efficiently without relying on localized deployments or additional translation support, truly achieving "instant global collaboration."

A Single Platform Supporting Multi-Region Localized Deployment

Intcube can provide enterprises with a flexible solution featuring "deep integration of a globalized architecture with regionalized deployment." Enterprises can deploy high-performance local servers in key regions such as Europe, Asia-Pacific, and North America based on business needs to comply with regional data residency regulations like GDPR. Utilizing an efficient and secure global data synchronization mechanism, each region can process business in its local language while ensuring the group headquarters can gather, integrate, and analyze regional data in real-time, quickly generating accurate and comprehensive group-wide panoramic views. In practical operations, the system significantly elevates the efficiency of cross-regional global collaboration from "daily-level" to "minute-level," reduces risks of compliance misunderstandings and operational errors due to language or cultural differences, decreases investment in localized secondary development, helps enterprises reduce costs and increase efficiency, and promotes the steady implementation of global strategy.

Multi-currency Processing: Simplifying Complexity, Integrating Exchange Rate Management into Daily Business Processes

Exchange rate management is often a monthly burden for finance departments. Manually maintaining and verifying exchange rates for dozens of currencies in complex spreadsheets is not only highly error-prone but also time-consuming and labor-intensive. Once exchange rate entry errors or delays occur, they can distort the entire management reporting system data, thereby affecting the performance evaluation of overseas subsidiaries, product pricing, and investment decisions.

Intcube EPM abandons the obscure and specialized exchange rate maintenance transaction codes (T-Codes) found in traditional ERPs, innovatively adopting the form-editing experience most familiar to business personnel. The operational logic of the new exchange rate table interface is consistent with maintaining business forms like customer information or project lists. Addressing the core pain point—the need to batch update multiple currency exchange rates for specific periods—Intcube designed a "right-side floating edit card." After a user selects a period, the card clearly lists all relevant currency pairs. Finance personnel can batch enter or modify multiple exchange rate values as easily as filling a single row of data. This approach liberates finance personnel from the cross-row, cross-column verification work, allowing them to focus on the data integrity of a single period, effectively improving exchange rate maintenance efficiency and virtually eliminating transposition errors.

The simplification and efficiency gains in exchange rate maintenance mean business units can more swiftly apply the latest exchange rates for evaluating the value of overseas contracts and calculating the costs of local procurements. Exchange rate data is no longer a lagging financial adjustment tool but a supporting element integrated into front-end business decisions in real-time. It achieves "zero wait" for the exchange rate step in the closing process, improving the accuracy and timeliness of consolidated reporting; enables business teams to make on-the-ground decisions based on more timely and accurate exchange rate data, enhancing the enterprise's price competitiveness in the global market.

The Intcube EPM product, "business-native multi-language support" and "user-friendly, intelligent multi-currency processing," precisely tackles the most common and thorny efficiency and data challenges faced by multinational enterprises in global operations. What we provide is not just a software product, but an agile operational digital foundation that accompanies enterprises in their global development, breaking down barriers and connecting the world. Here, language is no longer an obstacle, and data is no longer delayed, truly enabling mastery of global operations.

Meanwhile, Intcube new international website (supporting English language switching) has officially launched, marking our readiness from product to service to serve global customers comprehensively.