ABAS Announces Version 2008 Highlights
Karlsruhe, January 2, 2008 – Keeping pace with its strategy to continually update its software, ABAS Software is pleased to announce the newest innovations and functional upgrades found in the latest version of its abas Business Software (ERP, PPC, MRP, eBusiness).
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2008 contains new and upgraded infosystems to support such day-to-day
operations as ABC analysis, received invoices list, capacity planning,
comparison of costing results, analysis of payment, Multisite, and many
others.
In financial accounting, there are new innovations
concerning bank import and outstanding items. Fixed asset accounting,
cost accounting and material valuation have been upgraded. In warehouse
management, area batch sizes can now be calculated according to Andler
standards. It is also possible to create simultaneous costing, as well
as carry out the preliminary costing for suggested work orders.
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scheduling, the requirement calculation has been optimized, making it
possible to run a scheduling-related sales order through more flexible
user fields. Also, an EDI can now be set up in a new client with only a
few steps. The new service processing enables the optimal planning of
service assignments in customer service.
Innovations in shipping
include new logistical processes such as Just-In-Time, as well as
shipping planning, a function that automatically performs the
labor-intensive routine work. Further advances have also been realized
in areas interfaces, printing, graphical user interface,
multilingualism, flexible interface and Java FOPs. |
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Portal upgrades |
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areas of the abas Portal have been developed and now feature easier
installation, new and improved standard applications (portlets), as
well as improved administration tools. |
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Innovations in eBusiness |
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The eBusiness solution abas eB also contains many new
features in Version 2007. The Webshop search now uses the open source
Java library Lucene, allowing large data sets to be searched more
quickly. The ordering process has also been expanded by payment type. |
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About ABAS Software |
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ABAS Software is a leading provider of flexible
enterprise resource planning (ERP) and eBusiness software for the SMB
market. Founded in 1980, ABAS serves over 2,000 customers worldwide,
providing solutions in 28 languages. The software is developed in-house
at the company’s headquarters in Karlsruhe, Germany, then distributed
to the customer through a partner network. ABAS collaborates with 50
partners in 63 locations and holds a minority interest in 20 of these
partner companies. |
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About abas Business Software |
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ABAS Software is focused in the development of its
trademark abas Business Software (ERP, PPC, MRP, eBusiness), an ERP
solution designed for small and mid-size companies. Abas Business
Software includes abas ERP for production, abas Trade for distribution
and service companies, and the eBusiness solution abas eB.
The
abas Business Software is platform independent. It can run on Linux,
Unix and Windows. ABAS has supported the open source operating system
Linux on the server-side since 1995. Approximately 80% of all abas
installations to-date are based on Linux. |