SF Museum of Modern Art Adds Sage 500 ERP to Permanent Collection
Customer Company Size
Mid-size Company
Region
- America
Country
- United States
Product
- Sage 500 ERP
- Fusion 2000
- Raiser’s Edge
- DataPorter module
Tech Stack
- ERP Systems
- Point-of-Sale Systems
- Fundraising Module
- Data Integration Module
Implementation Scale
- Enterprise-wide Deployment
Impact Metrics
- Productivity Improvements
- Cost Savings
Technology Category
- Functional Applications - Enterprise Resource Planning Systems (ERP)
Applicable Industries
- Education
- Retail
Use Cases
- Inventory Management
Services
- System Integration
- Software Design & Engineering Services
About The Customer
The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA) is a private art museum and a nonprofit organization. When it opened its doors in 1935, it was the first museum on the West Coast devoted solely to twentieth-century art. SFMOMA’s collection is distinguished by the major works of Clyfford Still, Robert Rauschenberg, Marcel Duchamp, Philip Guston, Alfred Stieglitz, Ansel Adams, Edward Weston, Henri Matisse, Paul Klee, and artists from Mexico, Southern California, and the San Francisco Bay area. In addition to its museum exhibitions, SFMOMA offers many educational activities, public programs, and runs a research library with more than 40,000 catalogued items. SFMOMA operates Museum Stores at the museum, San Francisco International Airport, and the Embarcadero shopping center. Its Artists Gallery on the San Francisco waterfront rents and sells works by local artists on commission.
The Challenge
The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA) was struggling with separate nonintegrated systems for various parts of its business. It was difficult to extract information from these systems and impossible to integrate data from the museum’s diverse operations. With a budget topping $30 million, every penny must be accounted for. The museum needed an advanced financial solution that could manage the diverse information integration needs, reporting, and distribution requirements of a $30 million operation.
The Solution
SFMOMA chose Sage 500 ERP for its superior reporting and drill-down functions, flexible chart of accounts, and advanced distribution features. Sage 500 ERP provides SFMOMA with an end-to-end business system for the ultimate in financial control. Deposits from museum admissions are entered into Sage 500 ERP on a daily basis, with end-of-month admissions data reconciled through the Cash Management module and recorded as revenue. Cash register receipts from Museum Store sales are rung up in Fusion 2000, an integrated point-of-sale system from Mik and Associates, and batched and posted to the Inventory, Accounts Receivable, and Cash Management modules daily. Donations are entered as deposits through Raiser’s Edge, a third-party module for fundraisers, and then transferred electronically into the accounting system using the DataPorter module.
Operational Impact
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