FSN - SME Accounting

Victoria Carpets chooses Opera 3 from Pegasus Software for growth and integrated payroll and HR

Victoria Carpets has selected Pegasus’ Opera 3 solution including Payroll & HR, Document Management and Pegasus XRL Reporting – the excel reporting tool. The Midlands-based carpet manufacturer will use Opera 3 to achieve greater automation and accuracy in its payroll, and deliver superior management information to the business. Having gone out to tender for a fully integrated payroll and HR system, Victoria Carpets selected Opera 3 based on its breadth of functionality, flexibility and intuitive user interface. Crucially the system will provide comprehensive payslip information for the company’s 300 employees, as well as management information to aid reporting and planning.

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There's an app for that

Accountants have always embraced the latest technology developments, and the current generation of mobile apps is no exception. So FSN writer Lesley Meall finds finance professionals using them and producing their own.

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Adstream to implement SAP Business One

Sapphire is to implement a 27 user SAP Business One solution at Adstream, a digital advertising services company. SAP Business One is an integrated business management application covering finance, sales, purchasing, inventory, and manufacturing. It is also multi-currency and multi-lingual.

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What is virtualised accounting software and is it a good thing?

Many organisations have virtualised their servers and many more may follow this with the virtualisation of applications such as accounting. FSN writer Lesley Meall explores the various approaches to this.

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Intuitive Business Intelligence enters reseller agreement in South Africa

Intuitive Business Intelligence, the author of advanced business intelligence (BI) dashboard software, Intuitive Dashboards, says it has signed a reseller agreement with Allscan, a leading document imaging solutions provider in South Africa. The agreement has been formed in response to rapidly-growing demand for seamlessly-integrated business intelligence dashboard and document imaging functionality, which provides users with a holistic view of business performance and the ability to drill-down to images of the documents.

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Team Telecom Group chooses Access to aid efficiency

Global telecommunications group Team Telecom Group (TTG) have chosen Access to provide its new manufacturing, professional services and service management solution. The Derby based telecoms solutions provider went to market for a new system to increase efficiency across their various global companies.

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Dashboards coming into their own for SME's

Tools that turn data into ‘business intelligence’ used to be the preserve of those with very deep pockets. But as FSN writer Lesley Meall discovers, dashboards and other graphical ‘visualisation’ aids are now within the reach of small and medium sized businesses too.

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Access releases Report Writer module for Dimensions

Access has released a new module for its “Access Dimensions” solution to enable a simple way for users to draw out information from the financial software that does not require bespoke reporting. Targeted at the non-technical user, Access Report Writer has been designed to help overcome a number of challenges users have when compiling reports such as; not knowing where data is located on the system, difficulties in combining data from different functional areas, mixing text reports with graphical information, and selecting, filtering, sorting, grouping and formatting results in a legible format.

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Barclays Business customers to get QuickBooks Online

Business Centric Services Group (BCSG) is partnering with Intuit to offer QuickBooks Online, Intuit’s online accounting software, as part of MyBusinessWorks. Exclusively available to Barclays business customers, MyBusinessWorks is a suite of online applications hosted in the Cloud and designed to help businesses succeed by taking the pain out of business administration. It covers bookkeeping, creating a business plan, secure online data backup, website creation, training courses and all the tools required to help a business stay compliant with legislation.

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YMCA signs contract with Nolan for NetSuite support and consultancy services

YMCA Fairthorne Group has selected Nolan Business Solutions to provide a project redevelopment service for NetSuite, its Cloud-based business management system. As part of the contract, Nolan will be helping YMCA to enhance the functionality of its NetSuite system in order to increase online bookings for its school holiday Daycamps and after school club bookings, as well as improving its current web presence. Nolan was selected because of its in-depth understanding of the NetSuite product suite, accounting knowledge and track record in the Charity sector.

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