| Advanced Inquiry | | In today’s ultra-competitive global business climate, finance departments can’t afford to spend a lot of time handling ad hoc inquiries—especially those of a nonrecurring nature. Yet salespeople, line-of-business managers, accountants, and other members of an organization need quick answers to both simple and complex queries like expense accounts and transaction tracking in a summary or detailed format. In these uncertain times, companies need a powerful inquiry solution that saves time and frustration at the same time it helps improve the bottom line. With more than two decades of experience built in, Infor™ FMS SunSystems Advanced Inquiry offers the most powerful ad hoc inquiry functions for interrogating SunSystems data. Unlike other inquiry tools on the market, Advanced Inquiry works on data out of the box, with no presets required. Users can select data from more than 150 attributes, categorize it in over 50 ways, and create data hierarchies. In addition, they can save an inquiry for future use and even email it to another user. Another plus: Advanced Inquiry’s extremely efficient extraction speed ensures the appropriate information is at users’ fingertips almost instantaneously. Advanced Inquiry is a powerful inquiry solution that provides quick answers to both simple and complex queries in a summary or detailed format. Drill-down and drill-around features give users unparalleled flexibility, with additional capability to drill out from any SunSystems transaction to an alternative application database. Thanks to unique three-tier technology, users achieve unbelievable speed out of the box. Just about anybody in an organization can benefit from Advanced Inquiry: | | |  | Finance department users answering ad hoc inquiries | | Accounts payable/receivable users handling invoice and payment inquiries | | Auditors tracing transaction details | | Users who understand the data model (for example, analysis dimensions) | | Salespeople watching the status of sales transactions—now they can check for themselves | | Staff members inquiring on the status of expense account transactions | | Accountants analyzing finance and procurement data | | Line-of-business managers who prefer transaction tracking to fixed reports | | Anyone requiring daily activity reporting | | | Procurement inquiries When querying on procurement, users can display all ledger transaction journals generated by a procurement transaction. In addition, they can base selections on any header or line details, and summarize ledger transactions by any column. With financial ledgers, users can drill to a full journal and refresh the display quickly to update to real time. Advanced Inquiry allows users to quickly expand the display to all transaction details. Data selection and results Data selection is completely user-defined, with department and cost centre balances for the entire ledger at users fingertips. Powerful grid capability permits hierarchical grouping, sorting, and progressive extraction for very large databases. Not only that, users can instantly transfer data to Microsoft® Excel® or Word and publish output as XLS, HTML, and XML files. |
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