Mercur Solutions expands with a new office in Gothenburg

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Accel-KKR, a global technology-focused investment firm, having completed a majority equity investment in Mercur Solutions, today announced Mercur´s merger with Aico, a financial close software platform for mid-market and large enterprises.

LBH has streamlined processes, reduced manual tasks, and improved data collection, leading to better decision-making, enhanced collaboration, and accurate forecasting to address resource challenges.

Mercia Power has selected Mercur Business Control® to integrate financial and operational data, streamlining its Budgeting, Forecasting, and Reporting processes for enhanced decision-making and operational efficiency.

Volvo Car Retail has again made the choice to select Mercur Business Control for budgeting, forecasting, monthly reporting, sales tracking, and analysis.

Jetpak has chosen Mercur Business Control® for budgeting, forecasting, monthly reporting, intercompany eliminations and business analytics.

Mobile PPL selects and implements Mercur Business Control for Budgeting, Forecasting and Reporting. Mercur links together financial and operational data across the branches and allows group and locational per drop performance analysis.

Lona Group selects Mercur Business Control as its choice for Reporting, Budgeting, Forecasting and Multi-year Planning.

We are thrilled to share the results of our annual customer survey, where we've compiled all the responses. We're excited to see that an impressive 89% of our customers expect to maintain their ongoing collaboration with Mercur. Furthermore, a remarkable 100% express a strong likelihood of remaining our customers for the next five years.

Seetec select and implements Mercur Business Control for Reporting, Forecasting and analysis. We're pleased to welcome the incredible team at Seetec as one of our latest customers!

Sandvik SRP/Pune India has chosen Mercur Business Control for business management and decision support. The big advantage is the system's performance and the possibility of exporting to the group reporting system SAP BPC.

Sandvik Mining RSA choose Mercur Business Control for forecasting, management reporting and group reporting to parent company Sandvik. The South Africa-based subsidiary has operations in half a dozen different countries in southern Africa.

gap personnel selects and implements Mercur Business Control for budgeting, analysis and reporting. Managers now have access to detailed analysis of financial and timesheet data, with weekly KPI's available within moments after weekly timesheet submission and approval.

Costain selects and implements Mercur Business Control for budgeting, forecasting and reporting. Complex reporting and analysis of actuals, current projects, and projected work to be obtained will now be available for users through Mercur which links together several data sources in a unified solution.

Yes, we did it! We are now on the top list of Sweden's best workplaces!
There are over 400,000 companies in Sweden with more than one employee. But only 55 companies can call themselves Sweden's best workplace. And we are one of them!

We are excited to announce that we are growing. Mercur Solutions UK is growing at a rapid pace, and we like to welcome Lisa, Stephen, Abdul, Johan, Marcus and Sanna to our team.

Looking back through 2021, we're slowly heading back to something that's starting to appear as the new normal. Given the circumstances and everything that has happened, we're all still adjusting to the pandemic.

We're delighted and proud to have so many customers participating in our customer survey. We’ve raised over a £1000 on behalf of the Red Cross for all the completed surveys.

Derek Morrison, Country Manager – I’m absolutely delighted to welcome Cpl to the Mercur Family.

We're delighted to announce that we have once again been certified by Great Place to work. Everyone in the organization agrees that Mercur is a great place to work.

Haypp Group recently implemented Mercur Business Control to monitor their operations more efficiently.

Looking back at 2020, we can all agree that it’s been different! Many people, businesses and organizations have faced new challenges.

Our customer survey this year gave us a confirmation of that we together with our customers create valuable solutions. Over 97% believe that Mercur helps them make better decisions, receive faster processes, give more time for analysis and monitoring and overall better control over the organization.

With the ongoing pandemic and everything it entails businesses are forced to adapt to a new reality and make quick decisions in order to survive and continue to thrive. "For the operational and finance executives, the challenge is now to get the right data at the right time, to make the right decisions", says Derek Morrison, Country Manager for Mercur Solutions UK.

When Balco – the leader in custom made balconies across Europe, realized they needed a solution for budgeting, forecasting, reporting, analysis and project profitability the choice became Mercur Business Control.

Weightwatchers has implemented a new BI-system from Mercur Solutions, Mercur Business Control – a complete solution for reporting, analysis, budgeting and forecasting.

When the UK's largest hotel and restaurant chain Premier Inn decided to expand its hospitality services to Germany, it sought a modern comprehensive solution for planning and managing the decentralised day-to-day hotel and restaurant business for initially 20 hotels.

Verisure is the most widely installed home alarm in Europe with over 3 million customers in 16 countries using their products for security and safety.

Alecta has implemented a new performance management system from Mercur Solutions AB, Mercur Business Control – a complete solution for reporting, analysis, budget and forecast.

Thanks to the Mercur solution, lots of time and other resources are saved during our budget process. With a more efficient process we now also have a process for continuous forecasting throughout the year as well.

The Danish hotel chain Zleep hotels has around 15 hotels in Denmark and Sweden and are now planning to expand to Germany and Spain. To make their planning more efficient and to be able to monitor their booking forecasts, Zleep Hotels has decided to implement Mercur Business Control for budgeting, forecasting and reporting.

We're proud to announce that our employees believe that Mercur is a great place to work. We started our collaboration with 'Great Place to Work' in 2019 and we're delighted to have now received our certification.

Sandvik SRP has chosen Mercur Business Control for performance management and business intelligence. Mercur Business Control will be integrated with Infor’s ERP M3 (Movex) and will be utilized for rolling forecasts covering a 16-month rolling period.

Electrolux has decided to expand Mercur into additional areas within the Electrolux group after their initial project at Electrolux Global IT. The initial project, Global IT focused on traditional performance management activities such as budgeting, forecasting, budget allocations and project reporting

This year we support the Red Cross - They help millions of people around the world get the support they need if crisis strikes. The Red Cross helps millions of people in the UK and around the world get the support they need if crisis strikes.

A solution which covers reporting, analysis, budget and strategic target management. We welcome, Länsförsäkringar Södermanland, Länsförsäkringar Gotland and Länsförsäkringar Kalmar.

The CFO Network last week was a real success and our workshop "5 tips for Driving Enterprise- wide BI and Performance Management Success"

Euro Accident uses Mercur Business Control through integration with the Oracle EBS business system, the Agda payroll system, Euro Accident's data warehouse and Euro Accident's insurance system.

Saab Kockums has chosen to introduce Mercur primarily to get better system support for managing its project forecasts.

ESS has chosen Mercur Business Control for budgeting, forecasting, reporting and analysis. European Spallation Source (ESS) is a multidisciplinary research facility for materials research and life science, based on the world's most powerful neutron source.

PRI has implemented a new business intelligence system from Mercur Solutions AB, Mercur Business Control - a complete solution for reporting, analysis, budgeting and forecasting.

The goal is to reduce the previously extensive manual work with Excel files to free up time for developing business analyzes using dynamic reports and dashboards.

With the help of Mercur, employees now have advanced support for budgeting, forecasting and reporting gathered in one and the same system.

By the opening of its first offices outside of Sweden in Bracknell, near London, on July 1st Mercur is now taking the next step in providing even better services to its clients in The United Kingdom and Europe.

Gunnebo Gateway has implemented Mercur Business Control with the goal of making the system a hub for their financial and business management.

"Thanks to Mercur Business Control, we have now got a much better overview and control over our numbers and data! The follow-up process has gone from being centralized and time-consuming to being decentralized and time-efficient."

Bonnier News installs a new decision support and performance management system from Mercur Solutions AB. Bonnier News is the Nordic region’s leading media company, with over 200 years’ experience in changing media markets.

“After a thorough assessment, the choice fell on Mercur Business Control. With Mercur, we have a solution where we can gather our planning and reporting in a single system. In addition, in a modern and very user-friendly solution.”
Mikael Radnell, Head of IT and Controlling, Pågen AB

In their search for a performance management and business intelligence solution, SYNLAB placed a great deal of importance on having a packaged software solution offering configurable functionality.

Team Olivia improves and streamlines its processes of budgeting, forecasting, reporting, and analysis by implementing Mercur Business Control as a cloud solution.

Bilfinger Industrial Services Sweden AB has implemented Mercur Business Control 8 for budgeting, forecasting and monthly reporting.

The choice fell on Mercur Business Control. Now we have full transparency and a very good overview of the profitability and development of local units. Mercur has freed time that we now use profitably, to concentrate on increasing the expansion rate.

Having a need to replace its previous solution for budgeting Electrolux IT chose a solution based on Mercur Business Control.

With Mercur we now have full control over how operations are aligned with plans and objectives. It gives us a clear picture of the profitability of all our projects.

Port of Helsingborg had outgrown its budgeting tool and was looking for a more advanced solution for the future to handle budgeting, forecasting and reporting. The choice then fell on Mercur Business Control.

Gekås improves and streamlines its processes in budgeting, forecasting, reporting and analysis by implementing Mercur Business Control.

Mercur Solutions gets more and more customers in the property and housing industry. Recently, M2 Gruppen and Holmströmgruppen chose Mercur Business Control for planning, reporting and analysis.

The Swedish Public Employment Service has chosen Mercur Business Control to provide the organization with comprehensive support for budgeting, forecasting and reporting.

Väderstad uses Mercur Business Control for budgeting, forecasting, reporting and analysis including efficient financial reporting and compilation of subsidiary results on a monthly basis.

After thorough evaluation of various alternatives, Seco Tools has chosen to turn to Mercur to develop its performance management.

Stadtwerke Menden chose Mercur Business Control for several controlling tasks. Mercur is implemented in addition to the SAP ERP system in order to fulfill special requirements of energy and water suppliers.

The EXACT group has implemented Mercur Business Control for budgeting, forecasting and reporting. The EXACT group has previously handled these processes in spreadsheets and now look forward to handling this in a system designed from the start for performance management and business intelligence.

At Mercur we are conducting an eye tracking study on how different people take in the information presented in Mercur Business Control. The study is done with the help of equipment from Tobii, the world leader in eye tracking. Eye tracking technology allows a computer to know exactly where you look.

Jfokus is Sweden's largest conference for developers, this year held at the Waterfront Congress Centre in Stockholm for three intensive days, 6-8 February. This year, Anders Ahlgren, Solution Architect at Mercur Solutions, received the honour to be one of the speakers.

Four companies in the Länsförsäkringar Alliance have signed an agreement for Mercur Business Control - a complete solution for reporting, analysis, budgeting, forecasting, and performance management. This time it is Länsförsäkringar Blekinge, Länsförsäkringar Göinge-Kristianstad, Länsförsäkringar Kronoberg and LF Affärsservice Sydost AB

Loxysoft AB will implement Mercur Business Control for budgeting, forecasting and reporting. The system is integrated with the ERP-system Visma. Loxysoft has previously handled these processes in spreadsheets and now look forward to take care of this in a streamlined system for performance management and business intelligence.

BAE Systems Hägglunds AB has chosen Mercur Business Control for budgeting, forecasting, monthly reporting, project reporting and analysis. Mercur is initially integrated with the SAP ERP system.

Polygon chose Mercur Business Control for reporting and analysis. Mercur is initially integrated with IFS.

Bergendahls Food chose Mercur Business Control for budgeting, forecasting, reporting and profitability analysis. Mercur is initially integrated with the SAP ERP system.

Saab Bofors Test Center has chosen Mercur Business Control as a strategic system for the future to support its processes within performance management and business intelligence, ie budgeting, forecasting, reporting and analysis. Mercur is initially integrated with the business system Pyramid.

Proauto chose Mercur Business Control for budgeting, reporting and analysis. The system is integrated with the system Cobra. Mercur is used, among other things. a. reporting of sales per salesperson and product cost control, service, market report and budget.

The Italian pharmaceutical company Polifarma SpA chose Mercur Business Control to accelerate monthly closing and to spread the budgeting process through their business areas.

Taxi Stockholm has begun to use Mercur Business Control for reporting as well as for budgeting and forecasting. The system is integrated with Microsoft Dynamics NAV. Mercur Busniness Control is used to follow-up on transaction level and also able to drill down on vendor invoice images and specific comment lines.

Apoteksgruppen chose Mercur Business Control for budgeting, forecasting, reporting and analysis. The system will be integrated with Apoteksgruppens data warehouse. Mercur will support the Group's processes for budgeting and financial reporting.

Netonnet Group with NetOnNet and SIBA has chosen Mercur Business Control for operational management and analysis. The system will among other be integrated with Jeeves and Visma. The first step will be to manage the budget and monitoring the system.

Coop Norrbotten expanding its collaboration with Mercur and expand the number of users in the organization. After extension a total of 88 persons using the system for monitoring and planning. The system includes features for budgeting and forecasting, and reporting.

With Mercur the chocolate manufacturer Icam has achieved speed and stability in its’ reporting and planning processes. Every month they can quickly produce financial statements based on standard cost of goods sold and formulas to define accruals and adjustments. Moreover they can easily update their forecasts monthly with the system's drives based calculation functions. Report packages for the management are then created quickly based on predefined templates.

HMS Industrial Networks chose Mercur Business Control for budgeting, forecasting, reporting and analysis. Mercur is integrated initially with the ERP system iScala, the invoice scanning system Medius and the consolidation system AARO for legal reporting. Thereafter, the personnel system Hogia Payroll will be integrated with Mercur.

Securitas Norway chose Mercur Business Control to streamline its forecasting process and to provide business managers a better solution for reporting and analysis. Securitas Norway has about 80 users in Mercur Business Control and the system is integrated with the ERP system Microsoft Dynamics AX.

Specma Components chose Mercur Business Control for budgeting, forecasting, reporting and analysis. The system is integrated initially with the ERP system Jeeves.

BillerudKorsnäs AB expands cooperation with Mercur and rolls out Mercur Business Control to users throughout the organization. After the increase a total of 400 employees responsible results use the system for monitoring and planning of both financial information and production data for each production facility.

MalmbergGruppen chose Mercur Business Control for budgeting, forecasting, project planning, reporting and analysis. The system is integrated initially with the ERP system Agresso.

Byggmax chose Mercur Business Control for budgeting, forecasting, reporting and analysis. The system will be integrated with the ERP system IFS. Mercur will among other things be used for budgeting and forecasting regarding sales, expenses, personnel costs and other overheads.

Huge Fastigheter AB chose Mercur Business Control for planning, reporting and analysis, including for monitoring of its numerous renovation and new construction projects. The system is integrated initially with the ERP system Agresso.

Eurocash chose Mercur Business Control for budgeting, forecasting, reporting and analysis. The system will among other things be integrated with the company's financial and cash register systems. Mercur will also be used for reporting on daily sales.

Mälarenergi chose Mercur Business Control for budgeting, forecasting, reporting and analysis. The system will be available for 100 profit centers within the company. In phase one the system will be integrated with the ERP system IFS and then subsequently it will be integrated with additional sources of information.

Proffice with operations in Sweden, Denmark, Norway and Finland implements the standard application Mercur Business Control 7 that will support a unified approach to budgeting and forecasting processes for all proffice activities. The system will consolidate and eliminate the results of the group and provide support for simulation.

Swedish Space Corporation has chosen Mercur Business Control for budgeting forecasting an analysis. Mercur will be used for budgeting and forecastíng including elements such as investments, personnel, projects and sales. The solution will be used by all Group subsidiaries around the world. The system will be integrated with enterprise data warehouse.

Banca Farmafactoring implements Mercur for the development budgets and businessplans and for management of the sales pipeline. The banking group Banca Farmafactoring operates in the factoring sector and is active in Italy and Spain.

Transport Administration Driver Test chose Mercur Business Control to streamline its budget and forecasting process and provide all managers better opportunity to monitor and analyze performance. The system is integrated initially with the ERP system Agresso.

Mercur's partner in Bordeaux, Avista, has initiated cooperation with its first Mercur Business Control customer, a retail company that runs the Galeries Lafayaette in Perpignan. Galeries Lafayette is one of France's leading retail companies in fashion, leisure, interior decor and gourmet food.

The Stockholm underground technology company Tunnelbanan Teknik (TBT) chooses Mercur Business Control for reporting, analysis, budgeting and forecasting. The system is integrated with the company's financial and personnel systems.

Air Liquide has chosen Mercur's cloud solution for Mercur Business Control 7 - a complete solution for reporting, analysis, budgeting, forecasting, and performance management. Air Liquide has decided to deploy Mercur Business Control to initially improve and streamline their reporting and analysis. The system is integrated with the SAP ERP system.

Mercur has entered into an agreement with a new distributor and implementation partner in France. Avista, headquartered in Bordeaux, has over 20 years of experience in selling, implementing and maintaining administrative systems. Avista helps businesses to optimize their accounting and financial monitoring.

Mercur Solutions has teamed up with a new distributor and implementation partner for Spain, Portugal and Andorra, AMSO Consulting.

Loomis UK Limited, with headquarters in Nottingham, have chosen Mercur Business Control to improve and streamline results and performance analysis for the company's approximately 35 branch offices and managers at various levels.

Gar-Bo chose Mercur Business Control for financial monitoring and operational analysis. The system will be integrated with the ERP system Visma Business, and the customer's data warehouse with information from business systems for insurance and inspections.

The Swedish confectionery group Cloetta chose Mercur Business Control for planning and forecasting. The system is integrated with the Cloetta Group's data warehouse.

Axel Christiernsson AB has chosen Mercur Business Control for planning, forecasting, reporting and analysis. The web-based Mercur solution will be used by the parent company in Sweden, as well as by its subsidiaries in the U.S. and Europe.

Fastighets AB Förvaltaren (www.forvaltaren.se) chose Mercur Business Control 7 for planning, reporting and monitoring of its numerous and extensive renovation and new construction projects.

Mercur has reached an agreement with a new distributor and an implementation partner in Italy. The names of the companies are Analytical Applications and EULOGOS Consulenti di Direzione. Both companies are based in Milan and have a long experience in distributing and implementing performance management solutions, including budgeting, forecasting, planning and business intelligence.

Petrokraft chose Mercur Business Control for budgeting, forecasting, project management, reporting and analysis. The system will initially be integrated with the ERP system Pyramid.

Specma chose Mercur Business Control for budgeting, forecasting, reporting and analysis. The system will initially be integrated with the ERP system IFS.

The retail chain Granit chose Mercur Business Control 7 for budgeting, forecasting, reporting and analysis. Mercur BC7 will be integrated with the ERP system Dynamics AX, the staffing system TimerOnline and the invoice scanning system ExFlow.

Stena Bulk selected Mercur Business Control for reporting, analysis, budgeting and forecasting. The system is integrated with Stena common data warehouse.

Länsförsäkringar Västernorrland has chosen Mercur Business Control 7 for budgeting, forecasting, reporting and analysis.

Marginalen Bank has chosen Mercur Business Control 7 for budgeting, forecasting, reporting and analysis and Aaro for statutory group consolidation. The system will be integrated with the ERP system Jeeves the HR system and the electronic invoice handling system.

Länsförsäkringar Gävleborg has chosen Mercur Business Control 7 for budgeting, forecasting, reporting and analysis. The system will initially be integrated with Hogia ERP and Hogia Payroll.

Net Entertainment NE AB has chosen Mercur Business Control 7 for budgeting, forecasting, reporting and analysis. Mercur Business Control 7 will initially be integrated with the ERP system Microsoft Dynamics AX.

The new version of Mercur Business Control has been received very positively by the market. DIBS Payment Services, Trafikverket (The Swedish Transport Administration), Bukowski Auctions, Finja and Sanoma Education are some of the new customers.

Saab AB chose Mercur Business Control 7 for financial monitoring and forecasting of closed contracts. Mercur BC7 is integrated with the ERP system Agresso and a number of other systems and data sources.

Lönnbacken Fastigheter AB chose Mercur Business Control 7 for budgeting, forecasting, reporting and analysis. Mercur BC7 will be integrated with the ERP system Orion and the facilities management system IBS Vertex.

SigtunaHem AB chose Mercur Business Control 7 for budgeting, forecasting, reporting and analysis. The system will initially be integrated with the ERP system Visma Control, the HR system Agda, the facilities management system Fast2 and the invoice scanning system Invoice Manager.

Hästens Sängar AB chose Mercur Business Control 7 for budgeting, forecasting, reporting and analysis. The system will be integrated with the ERP system SAP.

Rusta chose Mercur Business Control for budgeting, forecasting, reporting and analysis. The system has been integrated with several local ERP systems, data warehouses and HR systems.

Väderstad-Verken AB (www.vaderstad.com) chose Mercur Business Control 7 for budgeting, forecasting, reporting and analysis. The system will initially be integrated with the ERP systems Jeeves and iScala.

Nordiska Bil has chosen Mercur Business Control 7 for budgeting, forecasting, reporting and analysis. The system will be integrated with the ERP system IFS and with a system for invoice scanning.

TeliaSonera Finans has implemented Mercur for budgeting, forecasting, reporting and analysis. The system is integrated initially with the ERP system Agresso.

Uddeholms AB in Hagfors has chosen Mercur Business Control 7 for budgeting, forecasting, reporting and analysis. The system will be integrated with the ERP system SAP.

Schibsted Sweden has chosen Mercur Business Control 7 for budgeting, forecasting, reporting and analysis. The system is integrated initially with the ERP system Navision.

Sandvik Materials Technology AB (www.smt.sandvik.com) chose Mercur Business Control 7 for budgeting, forecasting, reporting and analysis. The system will initially be integrated with the ERP system Movex.

Grontmij AB headquartered in Stockholm, chose Mercur Business Control 7 for budgeting, forecasting, reporting and analysis. The system will initially be integrated with the ERP system Visma Control and the project management system Visma PX.

Mercur Business Control Forum, which this year was held May 24 at the M/S Theatre Ship in Stockholm, continues to grow thanks to a growing customer base. The seminar offered presentations by consultants, customers and external speakers.

Chalmersfastigheter AB in Gothenburg chose Mercur Business Control 6 for budgeting, forecasting, reporting and analysis.

Mercur Solutions AB has started a partnership with Mepco Oy, in Finland for distribution, implementation and sourcing of Mercur Business Control in a Finnish language version.

Dormer Tools AB in Halmstad, Sweden chose Mercur Business Control 6 for budgeting, forecasting, reporting and analysis. The system will initially be integrated with the ERP system M3 and a new invoice scanning system.

KopparStaden AB chose Mercur Business Control 6 for budgeting, forecasting, reporting and analysis.

Helsingborgs Dagblad chose Mercur Business Control for budgeting, forecasting, reporting and analysis.

Göteborgs Egnahems AB chose Mercur Business Control

Another consumer cooperative society, COOP Norrbotten in the north of Sweden, chose Mercur Business Control for planning, reporting and analysis.

Borås Bil AB chose Mercur Business Control for budgeting, forecasting, reporting and analysis.

Uddevallahem chose Mercur Business Control 6 for budgeting, forecasting, reporting and analysis.

Rejmes Bil AB chose Mercur Business Control for budgeting, forecasting, reporting and analysis