What I like about IRIS Exchequer accounting software

Review of IRIS Exchequer accounting software
Exchequer has always been very strong on multi-currencies for purchases and sales and indeed for holding all trading transactions in their native currencies.

They see their competition, and position themsleves right in the middle, as Sage Line 200/500, MS Dynamics Navision and Great Plains, INFOR Sun, Cedar, Agresso, Access Dimensions, Open Accounts, Sage Line 100 Infor Pegasus.

Things I liked
In the presentation on 14th May 2008 we were introduced to a novel way of creating requests for reports, from a routine in MS Outlook. Indeed the development team seem to have moved their complete user interface for managers into MS Outlook and introduced a 'Reporting' Licence which is free of charge.
The 'Workflow Diary' sounds a lovely concept but we never saw the summary situation just that a workflow email arrives, you deal with it and send it on, eg for authorising a purchase order etc.
Excellent interface to MS Excel and into graphs, though there may be too many of them.

Things I didn't like
Everything seems to be hierachichal filing rather than omni-direction relational filing.
Debt Chasing routine I thought was very awkward and clunky and not much thought has been given to the real business drivers.
Documents and other images are all held outside the core database.
There seems to be only one Revised Budget.
No Sales opportunity management.
Still needs VPN rather than full internet Access.
Not available as "Software as a Service."