AGRESSO 5.5 General Overview

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AGRESSO 5.5 General Overview

• thomas.staven_at_agresso.no

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Mission for 5.5

• To improve AGRESSO by making it more accessible
  and easier to use by all staff
• Increased flexibility
• Increased choice in the way the system is set up
• Individual use/interaction with the system
• Make sure that organizations can grow with
  AGRESSO
• Enhance/improve and deliver new functionality to
  keep AGRESSO ahead of the competition

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Overview

• User interface
• Expand fields
• Flexi fields
• Links
• Document Archive
• Reporting
• Workflow

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User interface

• Common look feel
• Designed to look and behave same way
• New architecture
• Separation of UI and business logic
• Screen definitions in db
• Components reused from anywhere
• New screen type
• To be used in any client
• Dedicated renderer
• Web browser support
• HTML 4.0
• IE, Firefox and Opera

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UI Smart client

• User interface makeover
• Individual look and feel

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Expanded fields

• Transaction numbers 8 -gt 12 digits
• Attribute values 8-8-8-8-12-4-4 char -gt 12 char
• Reporting attributes 25 char
• Account 8 -gt 12 char
• Attribute Id 2 -gt 4 char
• Customer/supplier id int -gt char (12)
• Descriptions various -gt 255 char
• Unicode prepared

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Flexi fields

• User defined fields and tabs in all master files
• Validation, access and data control
• Group relevant information on tabs and in
  sections
• Flexi fields accessible in on-line enquiries

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Links (shortcuts)

• Simplifies navigation in AGRESSO
• Personal and global shortcuts
• Shortcuts available in new Links menu
• Shortcuts can be configured from/to other
• Screens
• Reports and report variants
• Browser template enquiries (Since 5.4 SP4)
• External links (Web page or MS Office doc.)
• Attribute value (i.e. CustomerID) passed to target

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Document Archive

• All document types can be stored within AGRESSO
• Documents can be connected to attributes/transacti
  on types in AGRESSO
• Versions (check out/check in)
• Indexing
• Open interface towards other document archive
  systems

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Reporting

• Information Management
• Formulas in Browser
• System BRT

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Information management

• Push of key information
• Auto start option
• Information pages
• Available in Smart client and Self Service client
• Global and private
• Unlimited number
• Choose number of report objects
• Demo

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Formulas in Browser

• New functions
• runningtotal
• periodno
• yearadd
• monthadd
• New macros
• NOW
• CLIENT
• Statistical functions
• MEAN, MEDIAN, MODE, MAX, MIN etc.
• String as part of function

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System BRT

• Created by RD, delivered with ABW
• Reports
• Part of screen
• Field help
• Customer can amend content
• Create variant (only one) to replace original SBRT

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Workflow

• New generic workflow engine
• Ready to handle all objects in AGRESSO
• Transactions (Financial/non-financial)
• Master file changes
• Graphical interface for designing processes
• Flexible rules engine
• Attribute/relations
• Flexi-fields
• Statistics
• BUSINESS MODEL REPORTING MODEL PROCESS MODEL