Tribal-specific IT support that empowers your people
Modern technology solutions can help your tribal organization enhance services, improve efficiency and streamline processes. Yet many tribal government, gaming and other entities still rely on siloed systems or a tech stack that can’t support their growth.
Finding the right tribal-specific solutions requires not only the latest technology but also a team with deep tribal industry experience. Wipfli can help, combining our industry and technology knowledge to enhance your IT infrastructure.
Why Wipfli
Wipfli has served tribal organizations for over 40 years, empowering them to better support their members and vision. We understand the regulatory and operational challenges you face, and we’re ready to navigate them with tribal technology and consulting solutions that can help you create a lasting impact on your organization and the collective tribal community.
How we help you
Wipfli’s Sage Intacct team has been helping tribal organizations modernize, streamline and automate financial processes since 2012. With over 10% of tribal gaming properties and many other tribal entities served, Wipfli’s leading implementors deliver deep experience and commitment to the tribal industry.
Wipfli’s Sage Intacct implementation services give you access to:
- Industry best practices: Our implementation support incorporates our experience in helping tribes overcome their technology and accounting challenges.
- Comprehensive support: Whether you’re new to Sage, need to modernize and update processes or want a complete technology transformation, Wipfli can help.
- A smoother transition process: Wipfli’s testing and training programs are tailored to your organizational needs and based on proven methodology.
- Staff continuity: Whenever possible, we provide you with the same team well after go-live so that you’re working with professionals who understand your organization throughout your continued use of the product.
Enhance your financial planning and analysis further along the maturity curve with Martus Solutions.
Martus Solutions budgeting software gives you access to user-friendly, flexible features, including easy-to-create budget worksheets, streamlined approval processes, change requests, robust personnel budgets and the ability to budget based on other budgeted line items.
Wipfli’s implementation team can help you adopt or optimize Martus Solutions in a way that’s tailored to your specific needs. Our team combines deep tribal experience with our knowledge of financial tools to help enhance your processes with industry best practices. We can also continue to guide your organization after implementation with tailored training, Sage Intacct optimizations and dedicated support as your budget cycles come and go.
Wipfli goes beyond Salesforce implementation to provide your organization with support for data and integration, process automation and optimization. As a Salesforce registered partner, we work closely with Salesforce to help ensure that their tribal member management tool provides an effective communication portal for your tribe.
The Salesforce Citizen Portal can help tribes streamline case management work while providing a unified, omnichannel experience for citizens looking to communicate and access information about services.
With Salesforce and our implementation team, you get solutions for crucial functions, including:
- Enrollment
- Grant management
- Program management
- Payment distribution
Wipfli provides a range of services to help you strengthen your IT infrastructure and keep your organization secure:
- Cybersecurity services: Wipfli can help you identify and remediate weaknesses in your organization before cybercriminals attack. Whether you’re securing government or hospitality and gaming operations, we can help you protect your tribe’s assets and maximize resistance to attack.
- Managed services: Wipfli can provide a crucial backstop to your IT team with managed endpoint detection and response, Microsoft 365 security monitoring and SIEM solutions — all designed to provide you with early warning of malicious activity in your network.
- Technology support and upskilling: Wipfli’s team of technology professionals can supplement your IT staffing needs while we help build technology skills within your employee base.
- Technology infrastructure projects: Whether you need to move to the cloud while maintaining data sovereignty or build a more secure network, Wipfli has the engineering experience to assist your IT team with critical infrastructure transformation projects.
Our team
Lindan D. Elliott, CPA, CISA
Lindan Elliott is a partner in the financial and operational systems group within the technology consulting practice. His time is devoted to helping customers achieve their finance transformation objectives and realize the full potential of modern business systems and processes. Lindan assists CFOs through the full accounting system and process life cycle, including business process and technology assessments, roadmap creation, and accounting software deployment, training, and ongoing support.
April D. Bacon
April Bacon is a manager in Wipfli’s technology consulting practice, with a concentration on financial information systems. Her specialties include projects in highly regulated industries such as gaming, government, housing authorities, and government contracting. As a member of Wipfli’s tribal organization team, April focuses on change management and project implementation execution and has a passion for tribal projects and reengineering processes to match best practices for reporting performance metrics across her clients’ organizations.
Shanice R. York, CPA
Shanice York is a senior manager in Wipfli’s business solutions practice. As a key leader in the financial and operational systems department, Shanice helps carry out the firm’s vision for bringing to life innovative, industry-centric technology solutions. With a focus on delivering high-quality process design and system solutions, Shanice specializes in tribal, healthcare, nonprofit and federally funded organizations, and enjoys fostering long-lasting and strategic relationships with her clients.
Transform your tribal tech
Learn how you can revolutionize financial and citizen management with Wipfli, Sage Intacct and Salesforce Citizen Portal.
