ACCPAC Development Partners Line Up In Support of New ACCPAC Advantage Series 5.3

Over Two Dozen Development Partners Providing Immediate Support with New Add-On Solutions That Extend Functionality of Award-Winning Accounting System

Pleasanton, Calif. - October 20, 2004 - Best Software announced today the immediate availability of more than 30 business management solutions from 26 ACCPAC Development Partners supporting the new ACCPAC Advantage Series™ version 5.3, also announced today. This wide range of business applications includes solutions for Customer Relationship Management (CRM) connectivity, advanced reporting, business analytics, cash management, Web stores, fixed asset management, bills of materials (BOMs) management, and manufacturing, among others. The community of ACCPAC® Development Partners plays a vital role in enabling small enterprises to build out advanced business management solutions based on the award-winning ACCPAC Advantage Series products.
“The immediate support for ACCPAC Advantage Series 5.3 is significant, and this is just the beginning,” said Garry Nishimura, ACCPAC Senior Vice President, Research and Development. “There are hundreds of other ISVs who have integrated their specialized applications with ACCPAC Advantage Series over the years, and we are actively working with a broad population of them to also bring their solutions integrated with version 5.3 to market quickly.” He added, “By involving ACCPAC Development Partners earlier in our development cycles, we are better able to speed their time to market with their specialized add-on solutions, and help make these Development Partners ‘ready to go’ at the same time we are. This puts us collectively in a much better position to help both our existing and new mutual clients realize the immediate benefits of version 5.3 that can help their business succeed.”
By making their ‘Ready for 5.3 Commitment’, each of these initial 26 Development Partners have ensured that small enterprises can integrate their various solutions with ACCPAC Advantage Series 5.3, and know that they will be fully supported.
“ACCPAC Advantage Series 5.3 is a tremendously important release for small enterprises because of the major improvements made to several key modules, and the immediate support of customized add-on solutions by ACCPAC Development Partners like us that allow businesses to take quick advantage of all of the combined new features and functionality,” said Bobby Perel, Managing Director of PereSoft Software. “By working closely with the ACCPAC development center, we’re now able to offer clients our powerful, integrated cash management features for immediate deployment with ACCPAC Advantage Series 5.3.”
Other ACCPAC Development Partners providing ‘Ready for 5.3’ support of ACCPAC Advantage Series 5.3 today, representing various disciplines, include:
Banking:
• Dingosoft: Bank Utilities, great for cash businesses, provides direct entry of payment and receipt batches (with optional tax calculation) into Bank Services, and prints checks and receipts. www.dingosoft.biz.
• Microchannel: Direct Bank Debits generates pre-receipt batches that allow the creation of electronic files for debiting selected customer bank accounts, with approved amounts due for collection. www.microchannel.com.au.
• PereSoft Software: PereSoft’s suite of Cash Management solutions, including PereSoft Cashbook, RecXpress, EFTXpress, and PDXpress, help maintain a client’s bank account and organizes their cash flow. www.peresoft.co.za.
• Visionetix Software: EFT Services™ processes EFT for payables and receivables, and Purchasing Approval™ allows online approval of purchase orders, funds availability checking and commitment accounting. www.visionetix.com.
Business Intelligence:
• AccTech Systems: AccTech eWorkflow transforms key data within ACCPAC Advantage Series 5.3 into reports that are useful for company decision makers. www.acctech.biz.
• DataHabitat Corp.: DataHabitat™ is one of the most user-friendly and high performance reporting platforms available in the mid-market. www.datahabitat.com.
• Turtle Innovations Pty. Ltd.: Net Sales Forecaster2004 V1.0.01 provides forecasts and historical Net of discounts, sales reporting, including item quantities, and Gross/Net sales reporting with prior year and variance shown. www.turtleinnovations.com.
• UniDevCo, Inc.: UniDevCo products including Sales Analysis, AR Inquiry, Ops Inquiry, Stock Card and Macros Easy convert ACCPAC Advantage Series 5.3 data into easily accessible Business Intelligence. www.UniDevCo.com.
Check Printing:
• AP Technology: AP Technology’s suite of check printing solutions for v5.3 includes the SecureCheck nX2™ MICR laser check printing system, SecurePay™ positive pay software, ezSigner™ secure signature and graphic software, and TruPrint™ check stock and toner. www.acuprint.com.
• CHAX, Inc.: MultiCHAX™ On Demand MICR Check Printing Solution enables clients to print MICR encoded checks on blank forms for an unlimited number of checking accounts all in a single step all from within the ACCPAC Advantage Series 5.3. www.chax.com.
Customer Relationship Management (CRM):
• 21st Century Systems Corporation: Provides a series of ACCPAC Advantage Series 5.3 extensions for ACCPAC CRM™, including CRM Time & Billing, CRM Order Entry Extension and CRM Catalog Shopping. www.21crm.ca.
Document Imaging:
• Perceptive Software: ImageNow™ creates innovative document imaging, management and workflow solutions for organizations in a broad range of industries worldwide. www.imagenow.com.
Electronic Data Interchange (EDI):
• RedTail Solutions Inc.: RTTM™ is an outsourced electronic data interchange (EDI) service for ACCPAC Advantage Series 5.3 customers. www.redtailsolutions.com.
Fixed Assets:
• Multi-Services Primco Inc.: Provides powerful tools to manage Fixed Assets, Deferred Revenues, Prepaid Expenses and Long-Term Liabilities, which provide users more productivity and flexibility. www.msprimco.com.
• Norming Software: Norming Asset Management is a powerful asset management solution, and Norming Expense Reimbursement makes the expense booking, distribution and billing process easier. www.norming.com.
• WorthIT Software: WorthIT Fixed Assets® enables ACCPAC Advantages Series 5.3 users to gain better control over their fixed assets through efficient Fixed Asset Management, Depreciation Accounting and Capital Budgeting. www.worthitsoftware.com.
Manufacturing:
• Appsoft: Advanced Bill of Materials 5.3 is a powerful program that provides assembly and disassembly of multi-level bills of material, and Work in Progress 5.3 manages work orders effectively and effortlessly, reserving stock, insuring correct item quantity and cost control. www.appsoft.co.za.
• COSS Systems Inc.: COSS Systems delivers cost-effective, functionally rich, and easy-to-use manufacturing software solutions for a variety of industries such as Metal Fabrication, Automotive, Aerospace, Tool, Die and Mold, Furniture, and Printing. www.coss-systems.com.
Purchasing Management:
• Bellwether Software LLC: Bellwether Software’s Purchasing Management eXtra™
(PMX) modular software automates the entire purchasing cycle using v5.3. www.bellwethercorp.com.
Time and Attendance:
• Sierra Computer Solutions: TimeMaster optimizes productivity and helps improve a company’s bottom line by automating Time and Attendance, including job costing, benefit administration, and data collection. www.time-clock.com.
• Tick-Tock Software: Payroll Time & Attendance fully automates the process of tracking hours worked by employees, and allows users to manage and view all payroll data easily. www.ticktocksoftware.com.
Training and Utilities:
• ABS Publishing, Inc.: Provides training manuals for ACCPAC Advantage Series Version 5.3. www.abspublishing.com.
• Orchid Systems: Orchid’s solutions streamline processes for clients who need to manage RMAs and repairs, auto-generate Due To and Due From transactions between entities, and link ACCPAC Advantage Series 5.3 data with pictures, documents and financial data. www.orchidsystems.biz.
• Systronics: Field Extender™ adds unlimited Optional Fields anywhere in ACCPAC Advantage Series 5.3 without additional programming, including Electronic File Attachments. www.systronics.com.
Web Store:
• eXtend Systems Corporation: eXtend eCommerce, a Web store developed specifically for ACCPAC, is part of an overall, proven approach to growing your business by marketing to prospects and existing customers via the Internet. www.extendsyscorp.com.
• Iciniti Corporation: eCommSuite.NETTM is a full-featured web store that integrates with ACCPAC Advantage Series 5.3, offering complete customization tools. www.iciniti.com.
Freedom of Choice
Like previous versions, ACCPAC Advantage Series 5.3 continues to provide small enterprises with the freedom to choose from a variety of industry leading databases, including IBM® DB2® (a 3-user DB2 license is included free of charge), Oracle®, Microsoft® SQL Server, and Pervasive.SQL®, and to deploy on either Microsoft, Linux® or the IBM OS400 operating systems. ACCPAC Advantage Series can be operated alone or integrated with other ACCPAC® end-to-end business management applications that include customer relationship management (CRM), point-of-sale (POS), human resources (HR), and warehouse management, among others. It can also be deployed either on premises, or hosted online at www.accpaconline.com.
Pricing and Availability
The Enterprise Edition of ACCPAC Advantage Series 5.3 is available now from ACCPAC Solutions Providers worldwide starting at an SRP of $1,500 (USD) per module, with Corporate and Small Business Editions becoming available in November starting at an SRP of $1,000 (USD) and $495 (USD) per module, respectively. To locate an ACCPAC Solution Provider near you, please call ACCPAC at 1-800-945-8007, or visit us on the Web at www.accpac.com.

About ACCPAC and Best Software
ACCPAC, a Best Software company, provides small and mid-size businesses a broad range of end-to-end business management applications designed to enhance customers’ competitive advantage. Product lines include ACCPAC CRM™, ACCPAC CRM SalesTeam™, ACCPAC Advantage Series™, ACCPAC Pro Series™, ACCPAC HR Series™, ACCPAC Business Analysis Suite™, ACCPAC eTransact®, ACCPAC Exchange™, ACCPAC Warehouse Management System™, ACCPAC ePOS™, ACCPAC Insight™, Simply Accounting®, and ACCPAC® Messenger Series. Best Software offers leading business management products and services that give more than 2.3 million small and mid-sized customers in North America the insight for success throughout the lives of their businesses. Its parent company, The Sage Group plc (London: SGE.L), supports 4.3 million customers worldwide. For more than 25 years, Best Software has delivered easy-to-use, scalable and customizable applications through its portfolio of leading brands, including Abra®, ACCPAC®, ACT!®, BusinessVision®, CPASoftware®, FAS®, MAS 90®, MAS 200®, MAS 500®, MIP®, Peachtree®, SalesLogix®, and Timberline®, among many others. For more information, please visit the Web site at www.bestsoftware.com/moreinfo or call (866) 308-BEST. For more information about ACCPAC, call 1-800-945-8007 in North America, or visit www.accpac.com and www.accpaconline.com.

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