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ACCPAC Insight
is an enterprise-wide reporting,
budgeting, forecasting and consolidations solution. With ACCPAC Insight,
employees, remote offices and disparate departments can manage, distribute
and collaborate on data from a single, unified source.
A high-performance financial management tool, ACCPAC
Insight helps you create and customize reports that can withstand the
toughest scrutiny. ACCPAC Insight extends far beyond your general ledger,
providing a powerful budgeting solution complete with bottom-up budgeting,
write-back, drill-down and other advanced capabilities. It provides access
to your critical operational and sales data, as well as customer, product,
vendor, employee, geographic data and more. You can quickly integrate data
into meaningful reports and safely distribute them across your enterprise in
real time while applying user-level security, ensuring that confidential
information remains confidential.
Along with powerful reporting capabilities, ACCPAC Insight
offers budgeting, consolidations, report distribution, Web deployment and
data warehousing, and is an ideal solution for companies with remote
employees or multiple locations that require real-time access to company
data. The software's tight out-of-the-box integration with ACCPAC Advantage
Series and ACCPAC Pro Series makes it easy to manage critical data. With
powerful Universal Data Access routines, you have the ability to integrate
data not only from Advantage Series and Pro Series, but also from any
ODBC-compliant database – with the ability to build your own filters.
ACCPAC Insight offers two data warehouse management suites
to fit every business need. Each delivers a powerful financial reporting
solution by optimizing and correlating your data from different databases
into a single, easy-to-manage database.
The Professional Data Warehouse
acts as a warehouse for your vital financial information, allowing you to
extract only the key data you want to report on. By capturing only the data
you need, you eliminate the time-consuming task of sifting through
irrelevant information and can focus on business at hand. It also contains
vital budgeting and scheduling capabilities, along with special security
features to ensure that only authorized personnel have access to key data.
This component requires the Author module.
The Enterprise Data Warehouse
is designed for large enterprises that require an elevated set of
functionalities. It contains all of the components in the Professional Data
Warehouse plus the ability to connect and integrate with other non-ACCPAC
applications via the Universal Database Access (UDA) component, which
provides access to any ODBC-compliant database. It also includes replication
capabilities that let you synchronize your data warehouse across multiple
locations – making key information even more accessible to employees
across the enterprise. This component requires the Author module.
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ACCPAC Insight is comprised of the following components:
Author
Author helps you create new templates quickly and easily in Microsoft Excel
for repeated use. The wizard-driven template design allows you to easily
create pixel-perfect reports in minutes. Once your reports have been
generated, you have the full capabilities of Excel at your disposal to
further format and generate additional charts and graphics.
Viewer
Viewer allows you to run reports against the Data Mart within ACCPAC Insight
and present reports in Excel, extending the value of the data available
through your ACCPAC system. Featuring powerful cross-module drill-down
capabilities, Viewer lets you drill down to supporting transaction detail
and even "drill around" from the general ledger into other
modules, making it simple to view underlying transactions and subtotals.
Web Deployment Server
Ideal for mobile and remote staff, Web Deployment Server offers you the
ability to generate reports and publish them on the Internet or a company
intranet. Authorized staff can view the reports through a standard Web
browser. You can maintain real-time reporting and provide complete
drill-down capabilities without the need to install any software on users'
computers beyond their Web browsers. This component is limited to 20
concurrent users (based on high-performance dedicated servers) and requires
the Author module to create the reports.
Enterprise Budgeting
Enterprise Budgeting can be used to create very complex models containing
multiple worksheets. You can deliver templates for end-user data entry and
manipulation, and consolidate input into a single Data Mart to prepare an
end-user budget in a true bottom-up fashion. This component requires the
Professional Data Warehouse or the Enterprise Data Warehouse.
Consolidations
Consolidations manages the consolidations process to deliver financial
statements that illustrate financial and non-financial critical performance
indicators. Consolidations allows you to produce merged accounts for
statutory or management reporting purposes that are ready for analysis.
Multiple unrelated databases can be consolidated into a single set of
financial reports, so that employees, branch offices and partners can
operate with a single, unified view of key financial data at any time. This
component requires the Professional Data Warehouse or the Enterprise Data
Warehouse.
Professional Data Warehouse
The Professional Data Warehouse includes:
Budget Express
Budget Express turns an ACCPAC Insight report into a
fully functional budget model workbook. It provides a quick and easy way
to define up to five basic spread methods, automatically defines mapping
to the Data Mart based on a users' chart of account structure and more.
Scheduling
Scheduling makes it easy to automate the execution
of specific reports by naming date, time and report parameters that are
applied to the execution of each report. You can even schedule reports to
run after business hours to take advantage of under-utilized computing
resources that typically sit idle during this time.
Security
Security provides access (in SQL Server only) based
on a clearly defined reporting structure. Security is implemented at the
account, not the report, structure level. For example, Security limits
what data users can see, not what reports they can request. Users are
assigned to profiles, and when reports are run, access is only granted to
the rows in the database or Data Mart as indicated by users’ assigned
profiles.
Workbook Generator
Workbook Generator automatically creates procedures
for generating reporting or budgeting workbooks from any valid database.
It contains all the information needed to allow the distribution of
workbooks, providing a single source of maintenance. It can run manually,
or be scheduled using any scheduling tool, including ACCPAC Alerts (ACCPAC
Advantage Series) and ACCPAC Pro Alert™ (ACCPAC Pro Series).
Workbook Refresher
You can schedule a workbook for automated refreshing
with the Workbook Refresher.
Write Back
Write Back captures data from an Excel file and
writes it to the data warehouse. For example, it can capture budget
information from all departments and divisions and store it in the data
warehouse for future reference.
Enterprise Data Warehouse
The Enterprise Data Warehouse includes all of the
components in the Professional Data Warehouse as well as the following:
Data Mart Generator
Data Mart Generator creates tailored Data Marts from
existing databases, automates and schedules the publishing of Data Marts,
synchronizes one or more Data Mart(s), summarizes reporting structures and
provides access via Microsoft SQL Server and Access.
Universal Database Access (UDA)
You can integrate data from other applications and
databases into your ACCPAC Insight reporting system using UDA and drill
down and "drill around" the data. With UDA, you can use ACCPAC
Insight to report on all your enterprise data stores, including legacy
applications and propriety software systems.
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