eTEK Accounting for Microsoft SQL Server
To see what this version looks like from an end-user, desk-top perspective, please review your choice of either version of eTEK Accounting for Microsoft.
The end-user screens/features, sample reports and functional details are the same for all versions of eTEK Accounting. The only difference is which version of Microsoft Office you want to serve as your "front-end" to a Microsoft SQL Server database.
When to use eTEK Accounting for Microsoft SQL Server? When the number of concurrent users in your organizations exceeds 9 and/or the volume of transactions in your business would be considered large.
eTEK Accounting for Microsoft SQL Server is a traditional, full-feature, network-based, client/server enterprise accounting system (aka ERP). Based on Microsoft SQL Server, this version meets the needs of organizations with many concurrent users and/or large transaction volumes across multiple companies, divisions, departments and/or product lines.
It is important to understand the
basic underlying marketing and technological reasons behind
this version of eTEK Accounting. We are serious about providing you with scalability
without the need and expense of re-training your users.
Savvy business organizations will not purchase a new accounting system
unless they can be assured that it will grow as their business grows.
Research confirms that most organizations seldom change their accounting systems. When they do, the primary reasons are to gain easier access to their accounting data, and more importantly to significantly improve the timeliness and accuracy of management information.
With these thoughts in mind, eTEK
has designed this version to use Microsoft SQL Server
2000/2005/2008 so that there are
no practical limitations to the number of transactions and/or number of concurrent users.
It makes good business sense to put our Microsoft Office compatible accounting
system "in front of" Microsoft SQL Server on a Microsoft
Server 2003/2008 network.
This approach is strongly endorsed and encouraged by
Microsoft.
eTEK Accounting for Microsoft SQL Server allows your organization to process a large number of transactions. Specifically, the upper-end of concurrent users can literally be hundreds to thousands of desktops (so you know this is NOT an idle claim ... please see the following:
http://www.microsoft.com/sql/prodinfo/compare/sap/sapsales.mspx).
93,000 concurrent users? <<< Think about that for a moment.
We suspect your requirements will likely not be that large ... but just so you know, we believe Microsoft's SQL Server is an excellent backend database platform; it is the reason we confidently say that eTEK provides an easy-to-use system with the flexibility YOU WILL NOT OUTGROW!
What about businesses that do not have the same high volume requirements as those described above? Perhaps our mid-range versions would be more than sufficient for your needs; or for that matter, even our eTEK XPress (web-based system). In short, the "flip-side" of scalability is also important to understand. Namely, eTEK customers do not need to buy more of an accounting system than they need. With eTEK you can always grow and expand for a very modest investment!
eTEK Accounting for Microsoft SQL Sever was designed around the concept of minimal conversion. Specifically, no additional end-user training is required to upgrade from one version to the other. This is a major benefit. Research confirms that the greatest costs of new systems are the costs of training people to properly setup, implement, and then use and support the systems they have bought.
For a comprehensive review of features in Microsoft's SQL Server 2005 go to: http://www.microsoft.com/sql/prodinfo/overview/whats-new-in-sqlserver2005.mspx