Access Accounting releases next generation business analytics tool
Press Release - Monday, May 08, 2006
Access Accounting has announced the release of a powerful new business intelligence tool as part of Access Office Integration 3. Access Analytics allows financial data to be easily interrogated and analysed providing on-demand reporting capabilities for managers – without the need for direct access to the accounting package, Access Dimensions.
Access Analytics provides a simple three-step wizard for users to interrogate and create reports from their accounting data using Microsoft Excel. The required information is simply selected from a list and then automatically exported into Excel where pivot tables and charting tools can be utilised.
Stuart Allsopp, Innovations Director for Access Accounting, commented, “Our users have always been able to retrieve and analyse information held within Access Dimensions using Crystal reports. Access Analytics takes this a step further by creating data cubes which allow managers to drill down to specific data via interactive management summaries incorporating smart tag elements.
“Cubing has become much simpler since the launch of Microsoft SQL Server 2005. With a cube – which is displayed in a user-friendly interactive web page – a data history is created with every new file, making comparisons between sales figures for example easy to obtain and analyse.”
Access Analytics allows users to analyse information within Access Integrated CRM, the launch of which has been timed to coincide with the release of Access Office Integration 3. The ability to interrogate and analyse the customer and prospect database, individual marketing campaigns and sales revenues helps companies realign their marketing and sales strategies where necessary. Access Office Integration 3 also allows users to synchronise their Microsoft contacts, tasks and diary with the CRM solution and offers mail merge facilities for Microsoft Word.
Access Office Integration 3 forms part of a growing range of business solutions developed by Access Accounting, a Microsoft Gold Certified Partner for three years. For more information and details of your nearest Accredited Specialist Centre, contact 0845 3453300.
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Notes to Editors:
Access Accounting is the UK’s leading business software house serving the mid-market. Its solutions have been chosen by over 13,000 UK companies - helping them to achieve business success.
A subsidiary of Access Technology Group Ltd, Access Accounting was the first UK vendor to recognise the potential of Windows and create a mid-range accounting platform based on this technology. Today it offers four scalable, web-enabled systems including its flagship solution, Access Dimensions. The company also offers Access Payroll, a combined payroll/personnel suite, which is fully compliant with the latest CIS regulations.
Access Accounting is a Microsoft Gold Certified Partner and a member of the Business Application Software Developers Association (BASDA). It has also received accreditation from major authorities including the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales (ICAEW) and the HM Revenue & Customs’ rigorous Payroll Standards Scheme. In 2007, the company won ’Financial Software Provider of the Year’ in the Real FD/CBI FDs’ Excellence Awards and ’Mid-range accounting Software Provider of the Year’ in the Sift Media Business Software Satisfaction Awards – both voted for by customers.
Media information:
Helen Carpenter
Head of Group PR
Access Accounting Ltd
T: 01206 322575 / 07833 936311
F: 01206 322956
E: helen.carpenter@access-accounts.com
W: www.access-accounts.com
