Everest onlineIt's not quite the historic integration of chocolate and peanut butter, but the recent launch of Everest On-Demand does combine powerful business management capabilities with the ease of use and cost savings of the application service provider model. The new service puts the vendor's Everest Advanced solution online, giving users a complete accounting and business management system (including purchasing, inventory management, sales and e-commerce capabilities) that is easy to install and maintain, and can be accessed remotely through any Web browser.
Price: Two users - $300 per month; each additional user - $50 per month. One-year minimum.
Everest Software Inc.
www.everestsoftwareinc.com
(800) 382-0725
Elite 3E
Elite 3E, the next generation of Thomson Elite's financial and practice management software for professional services firms, combines time and expense management, billing, payables, a general ledger, purchasing, fixed asset management, collections, conflicts and much more into a single new business process platform built on Microsoft's .Net technology. The scalable platform includes new workflow and collaboration capabilities; an integrated development environment that lets users configure the system to meet their requirements and processes; Web Services integration; enhanced metrics for advanced business intelligence reporting; and sophisticated international capabilities for handling multiple currencies, languages, tax systems and more.
Price: Contact vendor.
Thomson Elite
www.elite.com/3e
(323) 642-5200
Cognos Performance Blueprints
Just as buying a scale won't make you weigh less, buying software won't make your company perform better, or put you in compliance with all the various regimes you need to be in compliance with. You also have to eat less, exercise more, and set in place the reporting and management processes to make the most of your new software.
This is now easier for users of the Cognos 8 Controller and Cognos 8 Business Intelligence applications, as the vendor has introduced a series of Performance Blueprints - sets of processes, best practices and pre-built reports that can help companies improve their efficiency in different areas of financial management. The three currently available are the Close, Consolidate, Report Performance Blueprint; the Management and Financial Reporting Performance Blueprint; and the International Financial Reporting Standards Performance Blueprint.
Price: Free for Cognos users.
Cognos
www.cognos.com
Tabs3 V. 14
Software Technology Inc. has unveiled the latest version of its Tabs3 billing, practice management and financial software products. Among the new features of Version 14 are redesigned functionality for receipt allocation in Tabs3 Billing, new reports, and enhanced integration with Tabs3 General Ledger. There are also new fee compensation rules, as well as an updated payment entry screen.
Price: Contact vendor.
Software Technology Inc.
(402) 423-1440
New and improved
Wolters Kluwer Law & Business has created the Mergers & Acquisitions Integrated Library by combining all its M&A-related materials from CCH and Aspen Publishers under one common interface on the CCH Internet Research Network. (800-344-3734). ... Radio Beacon has released WMS for Sage MAS 500 V. 7.0, with an embedded user interface so MAS 500 users can use the warehouse management software without leaving the MAS 500 desktop. (www.radiobeacon.com).
