Online
The Online Module provides the ability to
enter real-time updates to the Project Accounting System
Master, Control and Detail files and to inquire against
them.
The Online Module includes:
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real-time update of control, master and detail files.
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A
large number of predefined screens for both entry and
inquiry.
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Screens can be modified or new screens created by the
accounting user. No programming is required to change or
add screens. The system automatically produces
documentation reflecting the changes.
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Both
entry and inquiry can be performed on the same screen.
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Previously entered transactions with errors can be
called up and corrected online.
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Security features protect against unauthorized access or
inquiry.
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Multiple lines can be entered on a single screen.
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The
user can access multiple Data Design systems all from
the same program.
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VIEW
is like a real-time interactive report writer. This
includes the ability to define a Query, run a Query,
review and save the Query Answer and save the Query
Definition.
General System Report
Writer
A company's computerized Project
Accounting system records can be a valuable resource to
assist management. The General System Report Writer is a
tool which an accountant can utilize to design and
produce special reports from this data base, without
programming assistance.
The General System Report Writer is
exceptionally simple to use, yet extremely powerful. It
can generate a wide range of reports from simple "list
and total" type displays to very complex reports
requiring extensive calculations, logical test and
multiple detail print lines. Features include:
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Up to
fifteen reports with a single pass of the master file
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Both
printed and machine-readable output
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Complete detail print line format flexibility
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User-defined page and column headings
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Extensive logical test and calculation capabilities
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Ability to access user-defined tables
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Unlimited report sequencing and totaling flexibility
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Detail
or summary reporting
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Percentages may be computed and printed based on
accumulated totals
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Detail
lines may contain variables, constants and calculated
amounts
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Records may be selected using extensive selection
criteria
The General System Report Writer has been
designed to run efficiently so that it can be used to
produce regular accounting reports in addition to
one-time special reports. It is particularly useful for
creating additional accounting and control reports
designed to meet the exact needs of a company.
The module also gives the user the
ability to define other files that can be used with the
Report Writer. Any sequential file with fixed-length
records can be accessed and used to produce reports.
AIM
The Project Accounting system can be
completely integrated with all of a customer's existing
systems without the need to write interface programs or
modify existing systems. This is accomplished with AIM,
the Data Design Automatic Interface Module. AIM is a
powerful tool which accepts the records from any system
and restructures them into Data Design format.
AIM capabilities include:
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Reformatting records.
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Translation of codes and other data.
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Accepting groups of records and creating consolidated or
allocated records.
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Comprehensive sign manipulation
capabilities.
Personal Computer
Interface
The Data Design tool LINK joins powerful
mainframe data base retrieval of VIEW with the ease,
convenience and flexibility of personal computing.
real-time query menus can be used to find, calculate, or
summarize information from the Data Design Project
Accounting system.
With LINK the user is working with a familiar framework
of information, using the same terms and formats that
have already been set up for the mainframe application
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