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Unlike most accounting systems and processes (e.g. GL and AP),
which are fairly standardized, budgeting, reforecasting and reporting
processes differ radically between sectors and even between organizations
within a sector. For example, budgeting in a University environment
has very little in common with budgeting in a pharmaceutical company.
Any software tool which hopes to support a variety of processes
even within a single sector needs to be extremely flexible and follow
open industry standards for data storage and interfacing. For example
such a system cannot predefine the accounting structures used to
capture and manipulate data, as these will usually be dictated by
source systems such as General Ledgers or Job Cost systems, but
must be able to adapt to virtually any such structure required.
This type of flexibility is no easy task.
FMW Web is built upon a data model which is highly
flexible and configurable. This allows the
system to be molded to meet the requirements of a variety of applications.
The middle-tier and database architecture is also highly tuned with the result that
the system can manage both large data volumes and large numbers
of concurrent users.
A rich, functional and graphically-oriented interface allows
users be become highly productive with the minimum of effort. All
functions are accessed through an icon-driven navigator, which is
customized for each user depending on his security profile.
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This software has a uniquely open architecture. One of the characteristics
of the kind of processes that are modeled by FMW Web is that
they nearly always require some specific business logic to be applied,
such as specialized revenue or cost calculations, often accessing
other systems. Our add-in architecture along with an API to manipulate
the FMW Web data structure, allows such logic to be easily attached
to the FMW Web navigation system, where it can be seamlessly
accessed by users. This is all accomplished without any modifications
to the base software.
Schematic
The modules of which FMW Web is comprised are:
- FMW Web Reporting
- FMW Web Operating Plan
- FMW Web Salary Plan
- FMW Web Capital Plan
- FMW Web System Administrator
- FMW Web Security Administrator
- FMW Web Model Administrator
- FMW Web Job Scheduler
- FMW Web Process Monitor
- FMW Web Report Viewer
- FMW FIR (Ontario Municipalities)
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