Great Plains announces the release of enterprise reporting

Great Plains has announced the availability of Enterprise Reporting 5.0, a complete solution for sophisticated financial consolidation and group reporting. The solution encompasses legal as well as financial and operational reporting.

Enterprise Reporting 5.0 manages complex entity relationships within an organisation and includes advanced multi-dimensional consolidations, eliminations and multicurrency capabilities. Enterprise Reporting seamlessly integrates data from various locations, and enables rapid development and modification of reporting relationships.

Organisations can consolidate information from an unlimited number of subsidiaries, departments, products and markets. Chris Harris, Managing Director of Great Plains Africa, says, "Enterprise Reporting 5.0 augments our powerful enterprise-wide solutions by providing our customers with an efficient and accurate system for collecting and reporting information from across their organisations. It allows flexibility at a local level while maintaining overall global control."

With Enterprise Reporting 5.0, Great Plains has also released a unique web-based data entry system, Enterprise Reporting Web Extension, and a global analysing tool, Enterprise Reporting Analyser. Web Extension provides an online reporting structure with one central database at the main site and web-based data entry at reporting sites. All installation, database administration and application setup is performed at the main site, streamlining the implementation process. Reporting form structures can be individually adjusted for each reporting site, and the status of each reporting unit can be monitored throughout the reporting process.

Analyser allows analyses on a global level, across the various functions and units of an organisation, as well as in-depth analysis of more restricted areas. When used with the Enterprise Reporting Executive Information System (EIS) Provider, Analyser provides techniques for structuring and displaying data, including tabular and graphic presentation as well as pivoting, drill-down and "drag-and-graph" options. The user-friendly environment allows even inexperienced users to rapidly achieve professional results.