Integral Accounting Enterprise 2007
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Integral Accounting Enterprise
2007 is a complete accounting system with source code and
distribution rights for the Dot Net Environment. This
system is multi-tiered, with a Database back-end
in SQL Server 2007 or SQL Server Express 2005,
a business logic layer implemented as a web service, and
two presentation layers, an Internet-Based ASP Dot Net
presentation layer, and a VB Dot Net Desktop Shell presentation Layer. For
more information, please review the material below.
Integral Accounting Enterprise
2007's multi-tier design separates the Interface (Presentation
Layer) from the Business Logic and the Database Layer, so the
system can be easily adapted to environments or easily scaled
across multiple systems.
The Multi-tier design of the
Integral Accounting Enterprise 2007 application allows for
unlimited scalability.
A complete list of the system
functions, including a full system overview, detailed technical
specifications, database schema, Ledger Posting Guide, sample
source code from all of the system's layers, and other technical
documentation can be found on-line in the Enterprise Help
System.
http://www.integralaccountinghelp.com
The complete Integral Accounting
Enterprise 2007 source code, including the project files, and
all the source code for every layer in every tier, is included
with the package, so you can modify it and customize it to
exactly meet your organizations needs.
For more information, please review the material below: |
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What
is the main difference between STFB Inc. and your Competitors? |
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between STFB Inc and our Competitors. |
Technology |
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Our Integral Accounting Enterprise 2007 system is a
FULL Dot Net Managed Code ERP & Accounting System, using
Multi-Tiered Web Services Based Dot Net 2.0 Architecture, for
both the VB Dot Net and ASP Dot Net platforms. |
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What does all this mean for
your company? This means that you can buy the Integral
Accounting Enterprise 2007 System and run it on a single server,
and as your company and your needs grow, you can add servers to
your installation and scale the software upwards without
changing a line of code. This technology also allows you to
operate two user interfaces against the same set of web services
and accounting engine, a VB Dot Net based Desktop Shell Interface for use
over LAN and WAN or VPN links for desktop clients, and a ASP Dot
Net Interface that can be used both locally or world-wide over
the Internet. Your software operates the same and on the same
data no matter where you are in the world. You can easily access
the software from any browser and have all of the functions
available to you! |
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Price |
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We only sell to developers
and consultants, and we have no outside sales force,
which allows us to focus on our technology!. |
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There are no per user fees or
per connection fees, since it never made sense to us to
charge extra for the exact same software just because a few more
people may be using it. |
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Also, we don't charge extra for many of the things that our
competitors charge extra for, like the SQL Server Stored
Procedures, web services, or the source code for the actual
"Accounting Engine". You get the full source code, every line
of it, not just a DLL or an API.
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Security |
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When you purchase our package, you receive the full and
complete source code for the entire Integral Accounting
Enterprise 2007 system, which means you have -zero- reliance on
software vendors and you are therefore
protected from adversarial
vendors and arbitrary price increases, and completely
protected from vendor insolvency. |
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Your business intellectual
property is protected since you can develop your own
software based on your trade secrets in-house. |
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Your Investment is protected
since the Integral Accounting Enterprise 2007 package grows and
scales with your company at no extra cost, and if your needs
change you can re-implement your new needs within the software. |
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Your custom changes are
protected. Integral Accounting Enterprise 2007 is
designed for customization and modification, and by following
our simple design guidelines your custom changes to the software
are protected from release to release. |
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Your data is protected as
well. There are many security safeguards in the system,
and all of the web services within the system are private to the
Integral Accounting Enterprise 2007 application and can only be
accessed through an enterprise client. |
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Why
is your software so Inexpensive? |
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STFB Inc. software is
in-expensive because we only sell sell the software on-line, and
we have no outside sales force, and this cuts a lot of
the overhead of selling our particular type of software. |
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STFB Inc. also only licenses the software to developers,
consultants and Value-added resellers (VARS) that are familiar with programming and the
dot net environment, which cuts our technical support needs as
well. |
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Without the sales force or technical support overhead, we
are able to offer the Integral Accounting Enterprise 2007
product at a very competitive price. |
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How
often is the Integral Accounting Enterprise 2007 System Updated? |
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STFB Inc. updates the
Integral Accounting Enterprise 2007 Package 2 - 3 times a year,
and at least one of those updates is a major revision. |
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If required, we will issue an emergency patch to fix any
major bugs or to patch in important new features or compliance
changes. |
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As long as your maintenance contract is valid, you will
receive all of these updates and patches for free! |
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What
happens to my custom modifications when a new release is issued? |
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The Integral Accounting Enterprise 2007 package is designed
with modifications and customizations in mind. The software is
organized as a "Solution", with the major functionality defined
as sub-projects to that solution. This means that you can leave
the software completely intact, and implement your custom
changes in a separate sub-solution that will be completely
un-affected by the upgrades to the software. |
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When we make table changes to the database, we may add
stored procedures, functions, and fields, but we NEVER remove
already added fields and tables so we will never "break" and
code that relies on customizations to the database. |
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Complete instructions on how to modify the Integral
Accounting Enterprise 2007 system and have your changes persist
across releases are posted at
http://www.integralaccountinghelp.com/custom.html |
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What
is SQL Server Express 2005 and Why is it so important? |
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SQL Server Express 2005 is a completely free version
of SQL Server 2007 that is re-distributable with your software
applications! |
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Most importantly, SQL Server Express 2005 is functionally
equivalent to SQL Server 2007, applications can't tell the
difference and they run flawlessly on SQL Server Express 2005!
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This allows you to distribute your SQL Server 2007 based
applications to customers that can't afford their own SQL Server
implementations. This means that a version of Integral
Accounting Enterprise 2007 can service both your large and small
customers without any modification! |
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Integral Accounting Enterprise 2007 can run on any version
of SQL Server 2007, including SQL Server Express 2005. We use
SQL Server Express 2005 on all of our development machines and
the application is fully SQL Server Express 2005 compliant.
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You can use the Integral Accounting Enterprise 2007 Software
with SQL Server Express 2005 for small companies that don't need
or can't afford the full SQL Server 2007 license. |
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How
many users does the Enterprise system support ? |
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The Integral Accounting Enterprise 2007 application is
licensed as an entire application and not on a per server or per
user basis. Therefore, You can run as many users as you like on
the Integral Accounting Enterprise 2007 System without having to
pay anything extra! |
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Technically, There are no built-in limits to the amount of
users the Integral Accounting Enterprise 2007 system can handle,
as long as the underlying operating system software and hardware
can handle the user load, the software should be able to handle
it also. |
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If you are using the Integral Accounting Enterprise 2007
package and you find that your user load is starting to slow the
system, remember that the system is multi-tiered, and each of
the tiers can be run on a separate machine, and if configured
properly some of the tiers can even operate across multiple
servers! |
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What
is your shipping policy (How fast can I get the code?) |
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The Integral Accounting Enterprise 2007
CD will be shipped
via Federal Express Priority, Standard, Second-Day, or Economy,
your choice. We ONLY ship via Federal Express, and a signature
is required for delivery. Release signatures on file are not
accepted, you or someone in your company must be present to
accept and sign for the package when it arrives. |
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If you place your order by 3:00pm Eastern Standard Time, it
will ship the same day. If you place your order on a Friday, and
you want it next day, make sure you enter 'Saturday Delivery'
into the shipping notes. |
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Once you receive your initial CD, updates and enhancements
to the package can be downloaded. |
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International customers must accept delivery of the product
electronically, We can guarantee that you will receive your
software when using recommended download managers.. |
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Is
the source code complete? |
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When you purchase the Integral Accounting Enterprise 2007
system, you get the complete source code for the entire
application and all of it's tiers. All of the databases,
all scripts, all projects, all modules, all of the source code
documentation, everything that you need to modify any section of
the program. The program itself is designed to be completely
modifiable, nothing is obscured or obfuscated. |
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What
is the reseller pricing? |
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The price posted on the website is the reseller
price. We normally only sell the product to Developers,
Consultants, and Value added resellers. We try to refer end
users to one of our Consultant and Reseller partners unless they
are technically savvy enough to handle installation,
customizations and modifications to the software themselves.
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Are
there any distribution royalties or fees? |
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Once you purchase the software, you can modify it and
distribute it without paying us any additional royalties or
fees. The only limit to the
license agreement is that you cannot distribute the source code,
only the executable program that you create. (See the
License Agreement for more information). |
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Do you do any custom modifications to the software? |
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Please contact
sales@stfb.com
to be connected to a reseller or consultant that can help you
with your modifications.
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How many customers do you have using the Enterprise product? |
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Integral Accounting Enterprise was first released June 2003
and we have hundreds of customers world-wide. |
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What industry is the product designed for? |
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The Integral Accounting Enterprise 2007 Package is not
designed for any particular industry, but instead contains all
of the basic accounting functionality that is found in most
industries. You can then use the software as a base to build
your custom industry specific software on. |
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What is your International Sales and Shipping Policy? |
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We sell all over the world, with the following exceptions:
Cuba, Sudan, Libya, North Korea, Syria, or any other country to
which the United States has prohibited export by law. |
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If you are International and have questions on how to order
the software please email
sales@stfb.com for the International Ordering Instructions
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What is your privacy policy? |
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Information Usage Policy. |
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The Information that we keep on
file - We only keep the following
information about you on file: |
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Billing Name, Address, Phone Number and Email Address |
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Shipping Name, Address, Phone Number |
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The Federal Express Air Bill for Proof Of Deliveries
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Information Usage Policy |
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Your Information will never be sold to third parties. |
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We will never do a mailing or contact you on behalf of a
third party.
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We may contact you if some new information about a product
that you are using becomes available, like a new release or a
bug fix
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What is the return policy and / or warranty? |
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This is a source code product, therefore there are
NO RETURNS after the
package is shipped.
There are no warranties, because by
definition since the product is source code, we can not control
the product once it is out of our hands. This is standard policy
for source code products. For more information about the return
policy, please read our license agreement at
http://www.stfb.com/license.pdf
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Is the Software GAAP, IAS, and / or Sarbanes-Oxley Compliant? |
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The system is fully GAAP and IAS compliant and supports the
Sarbanes-Oxley auditing and security required features. You can
find more information about compliance in the help system at
http://www.integralaccountinghelp.com.
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| If you have any additional
questions please email
sales@stfb.com or call us toll free at 1-877-767-5770 |
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If you have any
questions about the software, customizations, modifications or
any of the software's capabilities, please email
sales@stfb.com
The on-line help system and user
manuals for the application are posted at
http://www.integralaccountinghelp.com
International
Customers visit our
Global Portal
to view site content in other languages.
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Integral Accounting Enterprise
Simple Questions Answered! |
Here
are the answers to the most common questions that only require
one word or short responses:
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Multi Company - YES
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Multi-Division - YES
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Multi-Department - YES
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Multi-Currency - YES
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Multi-Language - YES
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Can add additional languages - YES
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Multi-Warehouse? - YES
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Multiple Bins Per Warehouse? - YES
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Any Third Party Components Used?
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Is the source code complete? - YES
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Can I private label the software? -
YES
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Is this a port of
another package? - NO
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Unlimited Users? - YES
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User Based Security? - YES
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GAAP Compliant? - YES
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IAS Compliant? - YES
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Financial Statements? - YES
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Sarbanes-Oxley Features? - YES
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Job Costing & Tracking? - YES
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Inventory Assemblies & BOM? - YES
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VAT Taxation? - YES
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Financial Reports? - YES
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Consolidated Financials? - YES
If you
would like to discuss these features in more detail please contact
the sales department at
sales@stfb.com or call
1-877-767-5770.
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Integral Accounting Enterprise
Integration Features: |
Integral Accounting Enterprise 2007 is designed with ease of
modification and enhancement in mind. For example, each function
in the system has it's own set of stored procedures to process
it's data to minimize the system-wide impact any changes you
make may have on the overall operation of the program.
We have
also designed the system with integration in mind. For the most
part, passing transactions to the Enterprise System for processing
is just a matter of populating a record and making a single call to
a stored procedure.
Here are
some other features that make Integral Accounting Enterprise 2007
easy to work with:
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Fully
Implemented in Dot Net Framework
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No
Third Party Tools Required
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Complete Database Schema Available
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Quick
How-To Guide to help with Common Changes
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Developer Videos Showing Common Tasks
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Plain
English Descriptive Variable Names
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Plain
English Descriptive Table Names
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Plain
English Descriptive Field Names
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Simple Forms defined in XML
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Business logic in Stored
Procedures
We have
made public a lot of technical information about the design of the
software, please review the "Technical Reference Guide" in the
Integral Accounting Enterprise 2007 Help System at:
http://www.integralaccountinghelp.com
If you
need any more information or have any ore questions please contact
the sales department at sales@stfb.com or call 1-877-767-5770
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Integral Accounting Enterprise
Enterprise-Level Features: |
Integral
Accounting Enterprise 2007 is designed using Multi-Tier Dot Net
Architecture, which means that all of the different program
functions are separated into tiers, and each of these separate
tiers of the system can be run on a different machine, or each
tier can run on a group of machines or a cluster for maximum
performance and scalability.
Implementing the business logic layer as a web service allows the
presentation layers to transparently interact with the back-end
accounting engine either over a LAN, WAN, VPN, or the Internet.
Using
tiers and web services also allows all of the presentation layers to
interact with the accounting engine simultaneously , you can have
multiple copies of the different presentation layers all interacting
with the same accounting engine at the same time.
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Enterprise Level Features Include:
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Multi-Tier
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Multi-Company
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Multi-Divisions within Company
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Multi-Departments within Divisions
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Multi-Warehouses
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Multi-Bin with Warehouses
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Multi-Currency
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Multi-Language
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Unlimited Users
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Unlimited Servers
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Full
Auditing
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Pick,
Pack & Ship Cycle
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Accounts Payable Approval Process
If you
would like to discuss these features in more detail please contact
the sales department at sales@stfb.com of call 1-877-767-5770
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Integral Accounting Enterprise
Accounting Features: |
Integral Accounting Enterprise 2007
includes all of the basic accounting system
functionality you would expect from a normal
Accounting / ERP system implemented within a
multi-tier, dot net 2.0 framework supporting master
pages and XML, which allows for easy scalability and
extendibility. The included source code allows you
to enhance, modify or customize any aspect of the
systems operation.
Accounting
Features:
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General Ledger |
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Quotes and Contracts
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Integrated CRM |
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Accounts Receivable
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Purchasing |
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Integrated Shopping Cart |
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Accounts Payable |
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Inventory Management |
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Payroll Framework |
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Order Entry |
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Job Tracking & Costing |
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Integrated Help Desk |
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Integral Accounting Enterprise 2007
is multi-company, multi-division, multi-department,
multi- warehouse, supports multiple bins per
warehouse, allows for nearly unlimited customers,
ship-to's, ship-for's, and vendors.
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Integral Accounting Enterprise
Compliance & Auditing Features |
Integral Accounting
Enterprise has many built in features that will allow you to
accommodate the Sarbanes-Oxley requirements:
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There is a complete audit trail in the Integral
Accounting Enterprise system that tracks every
change to every field.
The system keeps a history of all transactions
within the system. |
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There is a second audit trail that tracks logins to
the system |
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Transactions effecting the General Ledger can not be
edited or deleted. |
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Transactions within the system are treated as "legal
documents" and therefore can't be edited or deleted
once posted. |
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There is Multi-Level password security in the
system, and this is separate from the Operating
system security for an extra level of protection.
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The system supports a Purchase approval process and
a Payments approval process |
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The system supports the separation of business
functions, which is one of the most important
requirements of Sarbanes-Oxley. This means, for
example, that the employees entering bills can't
also print checks, and the people ordering goods
can't also receive goods, etc. |
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The full source code for the software comes with the
system, so you can completely customize system
security and add whatever additional audit controls
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We have also designed
the system to comply with GAAP, IAS and IFRS requirements.
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Integral Accounting Enterprise
System Requirements: |
Here is a list of
requirements for both the Integral Accounting Enterprise
Clients, Server, and Development Requirements:
Client Requirements
(ASP Dot Net / Browser GUI) |
| Windows 2000 or Better |
| IE 6.0 or Better |
| Active Internet Connection |
Client Requirements
(VB Dot Net Desktop Shell)
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| Windows 2000 or Better |
| Microsoft Dot Net Framework 2.0 |
| IE 6.0 or Better (For ASPX Reports)
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| Server Requirements |
| Windows 2000 or Better |
| Microsoft Dot Net Framework 2.0 |
| IIS 5.0 or Better |
| SQL Server 2007 or SQL Server
Express 2005 |
| Development Requirements
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| Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 |
| Microsoft Dot Net Framework 2.0 |
| Microsoft Dot Net Framework 2.0 SDK
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| SQL Server 2007 or SQL Server
Express 2005 |
| Web Matrix (Recommended not
Required) |
| IE 6.0 or Better (For ASPX Reports)
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