ACCPAC has announced ACCPAC Insight, an advanced enterprise reporting and analysis software suite designed to provide accountants, executives and other corporate users with simple, fast and flexible access to all critical business data.
ACCPAC Africa managing director, Jeremy Waterman, says Insight is fully integrated to back-office business applications and provides advanced reporting, budgeting, consolidations and scheduling. It provides this not only from accounting systems, including general ledger, receivables, payables and other financial systems, but also from non-financial data sources throughout the enterprise.
"The software has a Microsoft Excel-based user interface and is a suitable reporting solution for companies with multiple departments and subsidiary organisations, as well as those with remote employees and multiple locations that need real-time access to company data," he says.
Supporting ACCPAC's commitment to deliver tightly integrated end-to-end business management applications to mid-size businesses, Insight is integrated out-of-the-box to ACCPAC Advantage Series and is offered in affordable components to enable businesses to license only what they need, when they need it.
The product uses wizards that enable end-users to easily create and modify their own reports - on the fly - without MIS support. Reports can be viewed in Microsoft Excel, and more advanced viewing, including cross-module drill-down analysis, can be done with Insight Viewer's MS Excel add-in or from a Web browser using the optional Web Deployment Server.
Insight detects changes in the underlying databases, can automatically reflect those changes in affected reports, and can be scheduled to send automatic or periodic updates to a Web site or to individual users. Updates aren't restricted solely to changed data, but are dynamically made to the report design itself when data updates dictate it.
The product's Web Deployment Server provides the ability to view summary or detail reports online through a Web browser. By this means users have full access to the reporting tools and are able to drill down to source transactions.
In addition, Insight's budgeting functions work with the Professional or Enterprise Data Warehouse components of ACCPAC Advanced Series. They coordinate the flow of data in the budget cycle, from redistribution of values throughout the budget process to consolidating budget values. Insight Consolidations works with its Professional or Enterprise Data Warehouse component to handle general ledger consolidations. "Companies can consolidate information from multiple databases, even if they originate from different accounting applications, into a single set of financial reports," notes Waterman. "This enables head office, branch office and subsidiary company employees to operate with a single, unified view of key financial data at any time."
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ACCPAC International, Inc, a subsidiary of Computer Associates International, Inc (NYSE: CA), provides small and mid-size businesses a broad range of end-to-end business management applications designed to enhance customers' competitive advantage. Product lines include ACCPAC Advantage Series, ACCPAC Pro Series, ACCPAC HR Series, ACCPAC Business Analysis Suite, ACCPAC eTransact, ACCPAC Exchange, ACCPAC CRM, ACCPAC Warehouse Management System, ACCPAC ePOS, Simply Accounting, FAXserve and ACCPAC Messenger.
Based in Pleasanton, California, USA, with offices in Australia, Canada, India, Ireland, Mexico, the Middle East, the Netherlands, SA, Southeast Asia and the UK, ACCPAC has more than 500 000 customers and more than 6 500 channel partners in more than 130 countries worldwide. For more information about ACCPAC and our products, call 1-800-945-8007 in North America, or visit ACCPAC at www.accpac.com and www.accpaconline.com.
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