Dimensions Online (SaaS)

Accounting software as a service

How it works

The benefits of Access Dimensions – anywhere

Access Dimensions is a Microsoft SQL Server based business and accounting solution with award-winning functionality, reporting, and integration capabilities. It has over 20 modules covering every aspect of business activity.

Dimensions Online retains all the benefits of Dimensions, and high security sign-in procedures make it available to your staff via a standard internet connection. This removes the need to have the software installed on an in-house server, or the individual machines of remote staff.

Dimensions Online gives you all the security of a hosted solution, including backup processes and disaster recovery.

What’s included?

All these features as standard

Award Winning Software: The very best in business and accounting software – as and when you need it – but without the capital outlay.

Hardware Maintenance: Your Dimensions Online software is hosted on fast and reliable hardware. You no longer need to worry about replacing hardware as new technology arises or worry about hardware failures – everything is taken care of.

On hand IT expertise: Your data is looked after by experts. All you need to worry about are the workstations in your office.

Disaster recovery: Your data is stored off-site, meaning that any damage to your offices has no effect on data availability. In addition, the offsite data is backed up to a third location for protection against failure of the primary hosting hardware. These measures add a significant level of robustness to your Disaster Recovery contingencies.

Flexible working

Release the potential in your company

Your online solution provides fast, easy access for every authorised member of your business from anywhere with internet access. You can empower your staff to make more productive use of all their time and really enhance the service you offer your customers.

• Field Based Staff
  Your sales and service staff, along with any other fieldbased people will always be up to date, making their customer interactions more effective.
• Home-based Staff
  Dimensions Online makes flexible working arrangements fully practical, giving you greater scope to employ the right people regardless of their location. Furthermore, the ability to work remotely will reduce travel costs and time spent travelling.
• Sub-offices & Head Offices
  If your business has sub-offices, you can easily grant access to your business data to all staff who need it, without the need for VPN connections between offices. The power of the internet takes care of it.
• Outsourcing Opportunities
  Dimensions Online presents the opportunity to outsource parts of your day to day financial processing and management. For example, invoice matching and cash collection can be sub-contracted out quickly and easily.
• Collaboration With Your Accountants & Auditors
  Your accountant can use all the facilities of Access Dimensions to look at your accounts without the need to have Dimensions installed in their offices – enabling them to make transaction entries and give best advice on real time information.

Who can benefit?

Will it work for you?

Dimensions Online is excellent where staff require access to data from multiple locations – or where remote staff, contractors or professional partners need to input to your business system and see up to the minute information.

It is an excellent solution for any company that wants to outsource data entry or analysis. Even if you do not need to do this all the time, Dimensions Online provides you with the flexibility to use remote staff to overcome seasonal peaks.

It provides an ideal solution for companies wanting an easy answer to the challenge of secure disaster recovery planning.

It is ideal for companies who wish to reduce the need for specialist IT staff on-site, or reduce the cost of buying in IT support services. With Dimensions Online your system is hosted by experts, meaning that you have less need for highly skilled IT staff to maintain databases, servers and networks.

Business modules

to meet all your needs

Dimensions Online utilises the full, award winning Dimensions solution, designed and built specifically for the UK & Irish market. It has a ten year heritage in Microsoft SQL Server, which is the industry-standard database for speed and security. A full Dimensions brochure is available for more specific detail on:

• Management reporting, KPI’s and alerting
• Business intelligence & analytics
• Project management & costing
• Inventory & stock control
• Purchase ordering & control
• Sales ordering & credit control
• Integration with Microsoft Office

The right solution

from day one

As well as selecting the right solution for your business, you also need to select the right partner to work with. This is where the Access Accounting national network of accredited specialist centres is a significant benefit.

Staff in all specialist centres are required to undergo rigorous training in order to become accredited to supply Access solutions. This training is ongoing, with regular written examinations to ensure the highest levels of expertise.

A key element is the pre-sales consultancy conducted by your Access specialist centre. They will carry out a structured and thorough needs analysis of your business before preparing a demonstration showing how Access can meet your needs.

Once you have seen clearly how an Access solution will benefit your business, and have agreed to go ahead, your Access specialist centre will also offer a comprehensive project management service covering planning, implementation, staff training, and a full postimplementation review.

Once the system is live, the specialist centre will provide day to day support via telephone help lines or any on site visits that you may arrange. Our partners are dedicated to ensuring your business has the software it needs in order to succeed.