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ACCPAC Insight(TM) is fully integrated to back office business applications and provides reporting, budgeting, consolidations, and scheduling from accounting systems and non-financial data sources throughout enterprise. Reports can be viewed in Microsoft Excel, and more advanced viewing, including cross-module drill-down analysis, can be done with ACCPAC Insight Viewer's MS Excel add-in or from Web browser using optional Web Deployment Server.
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Enterprise Reporting for SMB Market Taps Multiple Data Sources and Supports Consolidations, Drill Down, Web Publishing
PLEASANTON, CA, May 28, 2003 - ACCPAC International, Inc., a subsidiary of Computer Associates International, Inc. (NYSE: CA), announced today the release of ACCPAC Insight(tm), 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 Insight is fully integrated to back office business applications and provides advanced reporting, budgeting, consolidations, and scheduling 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 an easy-to-use Microsoft® Excel based user interface and is an ideal reporting solution for companies with multiple departments and subsidiary organizations, as well as those with remote employees and multiple locations that need real-time access to company data.
"Company managers and front line staff, wherever they are located, depend on timely information for both their success and their company's success," said ACCPAC President and CEO, David M. Hood. "Too often data is hidden in the organization and accessible only through technicians with special data expertise. ACCPAC Insight gives knowledge workers up-to-the-minute information when and where they need it."
Supporting ACCPAC's commitment to deliver tightly integrated end-to-end business management applications to small and mid-size businesses, ACCPAC Insight, like other ACCPAC® applications, is integrated out-of-the-box to ACCPAC Advantage Series(tm) and ACCPAC Pro Series(tm) accounting foundations and is offered in affordable components to enable businesses to license only what they need, when they need it. The suite consists of a core set of report development, viewing, budgeting, and consolidations components plus advanced data warehouse management modules that handle report scheduling, security and multiple database coordination.
ACCPAC Insight core modules include:
-Author - for simplified, wizard-driven report creation from multiple data sources -Viewer - an inexpensive component for users who need read-only access with cross-module drill-down analysis capability -Budgeting -Consolidations -Web Deployment Server - for real-time Web-access to reports including cross-module drill down analysis -Professional Data Warehouse - an advanced data manager that enables users to create and manage Data Marts - logical subsets of their data - and also provides automated report distribution, advanced security capabilities, and bottom-up budgeting -Enterprise Data Warehouse - for data access from multiple, disparate databases with complete drill-down and drill-around analysis plus multiple data warehouse synchronization
Simple to Manage MS Excel-based Reporting with Cross-Module Drill Down ACCPAC Insight 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 ACCPAC Insight Viewer's MS Excel add-in or from a Web browser using the optional Web Deployment Server. Drill down is not restricted to a predefined path but can be done in a truly exploratory fashion, enabling users to both drill-down and around, moving through the data as their needs dictate.
Dynamic Enterprise-Wide Integration
Unlike some report writers that only access financial data from the general ledger, ACCPAC Insight reports can be developed from all accounting modules and from different data sources throughout an enterprise - accounting, operational, front office, back office, administrative and any other ODBC-compliant data stores. ACCPAC 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. For example, if the database is updated to include a new company division, reports that track divisional data are automatically updated with another section to display data including the new division.
ACCPAC Insight is available with direct, instant integration to ACCPAC Advantage Series and ACCPAC Pro Series accounting systems. ACCPAC Insight also can be integrated with other ACCPAC end-to-end business management applications, and any other ODBC-compliant applications, through the Universal Database Access component of ACCPAC Insight Enterprise Data Warehouse.
"With ACCPAC Insight our customers now have that elusive tool they've been looking for - a very easy to learn reporting product, that provides drill down analysis on multiple data sources, even from remote locations," said Jim Campbell, CPA and Vice President with Applied Data Solutions, Inc. in Malvern, Pennsylvania. "ACCPAC Insight helps us get our customers up and running quickly, and gives their staff efficient tools to manage more effectively."
Web-based Reporting
ACCPAC Insight's Web Deployment Server provides the ability to view summary or detail reports on-line through a Web browser. Web-access users have full access to the reporting tools and are able to drill down to source transactions.
Budgeting
ACCPAC Insight's budgeting functions work with the Professional or Enterprise Data Warehouse component to coordinate the flow of data in the budget cycle, from redistribution of values throughout the budget process to consolidating budget values. Employees responsible for budget management can deliver templates for end-user data entry and manipulation, and can consolidate input into a single Data Mart to prepare an end-user budget in true bottom-up fashion. ACCPAC Insight's budgeting features include drill-down and write-back capabilities.
Consolidations
ACCPAC 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. This enables head office, branch office, and subsidiary company employees to operate with a single, unified view of key financial data at any time.
Pricing and Availability
ACCPAC Insight is available from ACCPAC Solution Providers worldwide starting at an SRP of US $1,000 for Author software, $3,500 for the Professional Data Warehouse and $10,000 for the Enterprise Data Warehouse.
About ACCPAC
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(tm), ACCPAC Pro Series(tm), ACCPAC HR Series(tm), ACCPAC Business Analysis Suite(tm), ACCPAC eTransact®, ACCPAC Exchange(tm), ACCPAC CRM(tm), ACCPAC Warehouse Management System(tm), ACCPAC ePOS(tm), Simply Accounting®, FAXserve(tm) and ACCPAC Messenger(tm).
Based in Pleasanton, Calif., USA, with offices in Australia, Canada, India, Ireland, Mexico, the Middle East, the Netherlands, South Africa, Southeast Asia and the United Kingdom, 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.
Copyright © 2003 ACCPAC International, Inc. All rights reserved. ACCPAC, the ACCPAC logo and the ACCPAC product names set forth above are registered trademarks or trademarks of ACCPAC International, Inc. in the United States and other countries. All other marks are trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective companies.
