Key Features – Foundation
Overview
The Foundation module is core to the SunSystems 5 offering, enabling users to easily access functionality essential for their specific role, while supporting the organizational requirements. It delivers a number of components, which are utilized across all SunSystems modules and options; these are Navigation Manager, Form Designer, Business Rules, Multi-currency and Report Writer. Features of these components, and other functionality, are outlined below.
User interface
- Customizable, intuitive and easy to use
- Designed in consultation with Microsoft
- Navigation Manager
- Windows-based navigation supporting up to nine concurrent processes per user
- User-definable menu
- Menu option to link to other executable programs
Form Designer
- To customise forms to suit in-house processes
- Facility for users to create own help text
Customizable toolbars
- Consistent with Microsoft standards for toolbar design and customization
Data Dictionary
- Main repository for all SunSystems data items
- Includes tool to create descriptions and tailor field lengths
Filters and Control Desks
- To extract, sort and display transaction data
- Graphical designer tool to build library of filters
- 100 selections and 10 pre-defined sort criteria per filter
- All ad-hoc sorting supported
- Data displayed in forms, documents or reports
- Control Desks provide views based on each user’s security levels
- Functional processes facilitated by Control Desks e.g. accounting or sales
- Detailed analysis of data & transactions
- Up to 10 user-specified analysis dimensions for each analyzable entity – e.g. ‘customer’, ‘inventory item’ or ‘ledger transaction’
- Same analysis dimensions used in any area of SunSystems, e.g. accounting, sales or inventory
- Analysis hierarchies created and grouped for reporting purposes
- Additional numerical field on every ledger transaction for statistical analysis
Business Rules
- Controls data entered into SunSystems (directly or imported)
- Allows you to define complex validation rules
- Automatically sets data based on other entries
- Automatically initiates processes within the organization and with external partners and resources
Transfer Desk
- Allows the import from and export to external files
- Defines external file formats – flat files, delimited, structured or XML
- Defines filters, including the provision of run-time selection criteria
- Utilizes powerful transformation capabilities – to map, set or calculate values
- Defines data summarization for ledger data transfers (ledger only)
- Transfers data within SunSystems, e.g. between business units, with the option for data summarization and transformation
Dual base-currency
- Available throughout SunSystems 5, supporting all currencies
- Three currencies can be held against any transaction
- Any currency can act as the pivot for calculations
- Supports group reporting and use of the euro
Multiple languages
- Support for multiple languages
- Multi-lingual support enables use of more than one language per site
Reporting
- Highly flexible and customizable
- Tool for users to design reports for specific requirements
- Data library of components to design the reports
- Facility to run and view previously-run reports
- Actuate Object-Oriented reporting technology
