Abas Business Suite

The abas Business Suite is a software for Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) with integrated e-business applications that is used by OEM, retail and contract manufacturers and wholesale company for the control and planning of the company's internal and overlapping processes. Functionality includes purchase and sales, production, inventory management and financial accounting. The system is mainly used in machine and plant engineering in the automotive industry and in trade and service companies. The delivered standard software covers typical needs. The system is in use worldwide, which is made possible through the Unicode character set. According to the manufacturer it can be operated in 28 languages ​​and is mostly with Linux servers in use.

The manufacturer of the software is founded in 1980, ABAS Software AG, headquartered in Karlsruhe, Germany.

Software Architecture

The software has a layered architecture. The foundation is an object-oriented database. The application layer is based on databases and contains the main functionalities. With the user the third and final stage, the presentation layer or "flexible surface (FOP ) " acts. The "Individual User Interface", the "Standard Flexible User Interface" and the " abas Tools" are assigned to the presentation layer.

OS - based

Linux, other Unix-like and Windows are supported as server operating systems. On the workstations Windows or Linux ( Wine ) will be used.

Database

The abas Business Suite uses its own object-oriented database ( log database ). Possible advantage over relational databases is a performance increase, since objects are read and stored as a whole and are not distributed as in relational databases on multiple tables. Due to the Logstruktur the usual database features such as online backup, rollback, copying can be in operation much easier and with higher reliability implement than in conventional databases. The following APIs are available for database access: a Java -based framework AJO, a simple proprietary 4GL language FO, APIs in C, C , C #, Visual Basic, VBA, and the standard interfaces ODBC and SQL.

Individual adjustments

At the database level of the standard software -defined fields and tables can be added. Existing or custom masks can be customized and layout has a graphical text editor. At the event level, the business logic and dialog control can be adapted or designed by its own event handler, which can be implemented in either FO or Java. These changes remain when programming clean, get in updates. Since 2008, Groovy is supported.

FO- programs can be written, for example, with the structure chart editor EasyCODE. The java -based implementation is supported by an integrated in the Eclipse development environment AJO Workbench.

Web interface

With the additional product abas eBusiness applications such as Mobile Sales, Mobile Service, Mobile Purchase, and a webshop, product catalog, scanner connection, field service connection and browser interface for abas ERP can be realized. For data exchange with other Business Suite SOAP services are available.

Printing / reporting

Abas is delivered together with the open- source product JasperReports. This is the direct printing of documents possible and the generation of reports in various file formats (eg PDF, Excel, XML). An open interface makes it possible to integrate additional reporting systems by third parties.

Documentation

For users, administrators and developers is a help in HTML format are available, in addition to various Java interfaces are documented in generally accepted Javadoc format.

Mobile Applications

The mobile applications included in the standard package of business software abas facilitate the platform and terminal- independent access to relevant business data. The operation is intuitive and user interface (UI ) automatically adjusts the user interface and content in the presentation to the particular display size. With a narrow display item information is presented in vertically arranged blocks, with large displays, however, can use the entire width of the terminal and enabling more information to be displayed. If data is too large and can not be displayed in a view, an article full-text search is completed automatically.

This application is specially tailored to the needs of field staff in sales. It allows online access to CRM and sales-related data. It can use map applications, access to mobile e -mail clients and view offers, orders, invoices, tasks and notes from the ERP system, edit, or create new ones.

Mobile Service supports service field staff in the planning and execution of service calls. On the operational planning for service technicians can access a calendar function. Customer data and product service information, including parts lists and service history, service contracts and material planning, can be conveniently manage mobile applications. In addition, it is possible with Mobile Service also manage the move material and servicing report back.

Mobile purchase allows access to the supplier file. This gives an overview of all interactions with the suppliers. The complete procurement management is supported.