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APPX Conference 2002: The ProMaster Application Suite
Presentation by: Philip Bryan
Colony101: Delivering ROI on business Systems
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Presentation Agenda
- The background- What we wanted to achieve
- The design philosophy and application the philosophy
- A short demonstration - Navigation- Application master file- Parameters & settings- Transaction processing
- A quick look behind the scenes
- ProMaster modules and functionality - Questions and answers
- Colony101
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Colony101
- Computer consultancy based in Sweden and UK
- Currently about 100 staff
- Turnover of $8M in 2001
- Customers includeSweden - Telia, AstraZenica, Volvo, Swedish RailwaysUK – Methodist Church, National Health Service
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What we wanted to achieve
- To design an application set with instant user appeal and acceptability
- To make a product that we could take to new as well as existing customers
- To have applications that provide a sound base design onto which customer special functionality could be built
- To have fun seeing what we could do with the APPX tool, and to better understand the new functionality
- To develop programming techniques, and design standards, that can be applied quickly to existing applications
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Design & application philosophy
- On table maintenance and enquiry processes, the presentation should be tabular with overlays for additional attributes
- Having got to a point in the application, the user should be able to do everything that they might reasonably want to without having to go to another menu
- Navigating the application should be intuitive
- Speed of application build, and maintenance overhead, must be considered – don’t use the APPX GUI features just because the capability exists
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Demonstration – Navigation
• All application main menus follow the same style and layout
• The ‘Key’ master file of each application always comes first
• The symbol “»” indicates more menu options
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Demonstration – Key Master File
• The scrolling screen allows the user to select the required record
• All fields are selectable as keys to the file
• The Button Bar at the bottom of the screen provides many extra facilities including file lists
• All file maintenance processes follow this format
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Demonstration - Parameters
• This single display combines the features of
• File Maintenance
• File Lists
• Period Processing
• Status Inquiry
• Close Period
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Demonstration - Transactions
• The user sees all unposted control groups
• The journal is printed by pressing the ‘Journal’ button at the bottom of the screen
• When the control group has been validated as OK by the journal printing process the “Post” button becomes valid
• All special features such as ‘operator exclusive’ are available in Add’l Attributes
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ProMaster Modules & Functionality
- Complete suite of standard applications which have been developed over 15 years
Financials - GL, AP, AR, VAT Accounting, Fixed Assets Logistics – Inventory, Sales Orders, Purchases Orders Analysis - Marketing Statistics Manufacturing – BOM, Production
- Accountancy to International Standards – ProMaster has been used in 14 countries worldwide
Euro VAT Accounting Intrastat- Vertical market solutionsInventory with full Batch and serial number functionalityFashionAdvertisingConsultancyField Service
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To find out more about the ProMaster applications, or how Colony101 can help you create GUI versions of your
applications cost effectively, contact
http://promaster.colony101uk.com
+44 7050 113158
Colony101: Delivering ROI on business Systems