Earlier this year, Treasury & Riskreported on the findings of a Deloitte survey which revealedthat corporate treasurers are playing an increasingly strategicrole in their organizations.

The same survey also provided some interesting insights into thecurrent state of companies' treasury systems infrastructure. So wesat down with Niklas Bergentoft, a Deloitte director who heads upDeloitte's treasury technology practice, and Kesavan Thuppil, aDeloitte director who heads up the firm's SAP treasury practice, todiscuss.

Survey respondents were treasury professionals in more than 100of the world's top companies. Forty-seven percent came from theUnited States; 45 percent from Europe, the Middle East, or Africa(EMEA); 4 percent from Latin America; and 4 percent from theAsia-Pacific (APAC) region. Forty-five percent work in companieswith more than US$10 billion in annual revenue, while 55 percentwork in companies with less than $10 billion in revenue.