These innovative developments will boost productivity levels, enable further decision making and elevate security issues. Following on the recent introduction of the SYSPRO Fluid Interface Design, which gives users unprecedented customisation and control abilities over virtually every aspect of the desktop user interface, SYSPRO now offers the ability for users to create their own views and forms and to customise the product to create dashboards and executive views that provide instant access to critical data all within one screen.

According to Howard Joseph, MD, K3 Business Technology Group: "Keeping with the SYSPRO philosophy of making software easier to use, easier to deploy and easier to maintain, SYSPRO in 2007 made a huge leap forward in the reporting capabilities of the product with the SYSPRO Fluid Interface Design topping the list of more than one hundred new enhancements. In 2008, SYSPRO has continued to evolve these capabilities with the introduction of an almost limitless customisation reporting facility, a greatly extended office integration facility and additional built-in reporting enhancements - all of which create a much more fluid reporting facility.”

Other major new functionalities in this release include an enhanced version of SYSPRO Analytics, new report generation capabilities, extended SYSPRO Office Integration (SOI) and the introduction of Financial Ratios to gauge the financial health of small-and-medium size manufacturers and distributors. The Financial Ratio Analysis incorporates more than a dozen financial metrics, including efficiency ratios, profitability ratios, business activity ratios and liquidity ratios among others. The new version of SYSPRO Analytics offers a series of intelligent analysis objects and metric templates that allow executives to intuitively build key performance indicators and response methodologies to act quickly. The extended SOI enables the exchange and extraction of data between a far greater breadth of SYSPRO offerings and Microsoft Office products, as well as the new facility to insert charts into the document.

"Keeping up with global technology advancements is a major challenge. To help customers meet the demanding needs of internal management while simultaneously operating in a real-time collaborative world up and down the supply chain, SYSPRO has become much broader in overall functionality and much deeper in capability," concludes Howard Joseph.