System Overview

Easy, Quickly, Efficiently

ABM tightly integrates with Microsoft Office to streamline the running of your business, including sharing task lists and calendar events with Microsoft Outlook. The layout and operation is a familiar Microsoft Outlook style, reducing considerable staff training time and learning curve. Every regular operation is just one mouse click away with double click access to all data creating a fast and easy environment.

A fit for all company sizes

ABM has been built to manage businesses from 1 to 100+ users and an unlimited turnover handling ability. No matter what size your business ABM can manage it with a choice of 2 package sizes, Enterprise Edition and Small Business Edition. No features or functions are left-out between the two package options, providing the same comprehensive high-end accounting system for businesses of different sizes, structures and budgets.

Customisation

ABM provides you with choices of what optional modules and companion products you require to fit your business needs and provide tools for specific industries. As each business is unique, the only compulsory component is the ABM base accounting system from which all other optional modules and companion products may be attached to by choice. More options are available to customize the size restraints of ABM and the number of users and read-only users for certain functions of ABM.

ABM developer partners are able to further customize your system by developing customer specific software add-ons and functionality.

ABM Grows with you

ABM handles any number of companies and currencies. ABM is suitable for businesses with one to 100+ workstations.
Wizards make the creation of new company databases and the conversion of existing Business Manager, Sybiz Vision, and other databases significantly easy.

Global Software

ABM can be used in up to ten different countries worldwide, with tax and legislation for each country. Be assured that you are running your business with a truly outstanding international software package.

Integration with industry specific software solutions

ABM has a proud relationship with its range of developer partners, creating industry software solutions specifically for ABM. These companion products have been developed to deliver 100% seamless integration with ABM, allowing for fluent one-time data entry throughout the entire accounting/business system

Business Bulletin

ABM’s Business Bulletin feature is a powerful tool for business owners to view a summary of the business’s health and wealth. Each bulletin is a Microsoft Excel spreadsheet containing the selected tables and graphs. Bulletins can be viewed on demand or can be automatically created and emailed at specified intervals.

Email alerts

ABM automates emailing of alerts for events in the business data such as credit, budget or job estimate limits being exceeded as well as overdue customer alerts. This reduces the time needlessly spent on keeping track of crucial information and controlling financial responsibilities.

“One click” transfers of data to Microsoft Excel

Whenever a list of information is being displayed in ABM, a Microsoft Excel button will appear at the top of the screen allowing “one click” transfers of data to Excel with all headings and data organisation intact.

Scheduling automated tasks

ABM comes with a scheduler designed to make the operation and maintenance of your business simpler and increasingly automated. The scheduler links to the Window’s Scheduler allowing a view of all automated tasks scheduled on your system as well as options to add tasks such as reports, backups, database housekeeping and Business Bulletins. The purpose of this feature is to allow the user to focus their time on other areas while assuring them that these important tasks are kept up to date.

Multiple windows

Customers, suppliers, jobs, products and ledger accounts may be viewed concurrently inside of ABM. This allows the user to work with multiple areas of accounting at once, providing all information required for a particular task.

Friendly Microsoft Office style navigation

Users have the freedom to choose from a range of Microsoft Office style navigation bars to help familiarise with ABM, reducing learning time and increasing ease of use.

Customise your ABM look

Users can personalise their ABM according to their tastes with 16 different “skins”, including Windows Vista colour scheme. The “skins” provide a variety of colour schemes for windows, text, boxes, tabs, etc to customize your ABM working environment.

Email for documents and statements

Integration of Microsoft Office allows for emailing within ABM which reduces a business’s postage and handling costs. A range of items may be sent directly to email from ABM including invoices, product information and customer statements.

Variable trading terms

ABM has the ability to set variable trading terms to individual customers and suppliers as well as groupings of customers and suppliers, providing flexibility in the way the business deals with external parties.

Robust, fast database

ABM uses the Microsoft SQL Server/MSDE database engine for superior reliability and performance with added security to your company’s data.

Quick list filtering – an easy way to view relevant information

List filtering is a great way to view relevant information you wish to focus on at a particular time. On any list of information (for example products, customers, suppliers, jobs, etc) the user may simply right click on a particular description of an item and select the option to “Filter on this item”, which reduces the list to all items matching the description. This is another example of how ABM creates an easy, fast and logical working environment to control and work with information in the business.

Scalable data

• Microsoft® Access for small businesses requiring minimal cost of ownership, and easy access from Word, Excel, and so on.
• Microsoft® SQL Server for larger organisations wanting a fast, robust, secure and flexible solution.
• SQL Server Express for businesses that want robustness and performance at a lower cost of ownership.

Ensuring SQL Server runs efficiently

Users of both SQL Express and full SQL Server can set up a housekeeping plan, which ensures that database performance is optimum within the limits of their hardware.