Internationally acclaimed for advanced flexibility
Fully integrated and flexible: The ERP system for enhanced performance
The CANIAS ERP Base Module provides administration and
system management tools that enable users to configure,
administer and customize their systems in the way they do
their business, while allowing them to take advantage of
the powers offered by a full-featured ERP system. These
applications and system management tools form the
foundation of the CANIAS ERP system and are delivered as
part of the standard system configuration.
The CANIAS ERP Base Module controls access to all other
modules and is the hub that controls communication
among them. The Base module includes advanced tools
that ensure data integrity, efficient processing and security
management enabling users to work more productively.
The complete range of system administration and system
management tools offered by the Base Module are
described below:
Management of System Master Data
Base data (including product data, customer data and distributor data)
Check tables
Materials classification system
Cost center management
Address book
System Administration
Number range management
User accounts management
Plant (activity) calendar
Look and feel (dialog design)
System warning messages
Development Environment
Includes all transactions and features relating to the TROIA development environment, such as:
IDE (Integrated Design Environment)
Class management
Table management
Translation tool
Help desk management
Report and layout wizards
Dialog designer
Application programming
Parameterization for all sizes and types of businesses
Event and workflow attributes can be customized, and
are administered through the system base module.
Workflow management processes can be controlled
from the master data management feature through
manually adjustable workflows. Parameters controlling
functionality and processing are configured using the
check and administration tables feature and are grouped per module. As a result of the parameterized
architecture, system features can be conveniently mapped
to the requirements of a wide range of organizations of all
sizes and types.
Efficient system administration carried out with ease and convenience
System administration is a pivotal task in a highly
integrated product. System administrators should be
equipped with powerful tools and capabilities to tackle any
errors or conflicts user may face as part of their daily
activities.
The CANIAS ERP Base module provides all the features
necessary for system administration. In addition to the
management of user accounts (including the administration
of authorizations across the system), it also provides
calendar functionality, system reports and menu
administration that feature user-friendly interfaces and
controls.
Administration dashboard, an essential feature for system
administration, displays all active system configuration and
runtime parameters. The dashboard allows administration
of all user logon sessions, control and reporting of all
processes and configurations, as well as the display and
analysis of system error logs.
The CANIAS ERP system features an object oriented
architecture, which makes it convenient for the users to
flexibly customize the system according to their requirements. The co-existence of standard and
customized classes and dialogue objects are managed
through the Base module system administration
features.
Configuring user authorizations flexibly and individually
CANIAS ERP offers an exceptional level of flexibility in
configuring user access to the system based on
departments, organizational levels, user groups, and
other attributes. The following are tasks for which
users may be granted specific authority:
Transactions
Dialogs
Select operations (regulating database queries)
Save, execute, delete operations
Group-based rights
Dialog design
Access administration for customized dialogs
Access administration for customized classes
Integrated groupware access rights
The system also allows Internet-based access by
customers and business partners external to the
organization, through carefully defined access rights.
Highest level of security for Internet-based access
In addition to conventional security measures such as
user account names, passwords and user
authorizations, the CANIAS ERP system also employs
SSL (Secure Sockets Layer) technology for secure access via the Internet.
The CANIAS ERP system applies sophisticated access
security for protection against access violations and is
among the rarest breed of ERP systems in the market
utilizing integrated digital authentication technology
including OTP (one time password) technology and
digital certificates. The use of digital certificates
dramatically reduces access violations, especially in
cases of access from mobile devices.
According to the Gartner Group, ERP systems having
an open, object-oriented and Java-based architecture,
such as the CANIAS ERP system, combine the
essential features of an Enterprise Collaboration
Architecture.
In order for organizations to ensure successful
Internet-based activities, it is essential to prevent
unauthorized data access. The combination of OTP and
digital certificates provides maximum flexibility for
both stationary and mobile users. With the integration
of digital authentication technology, the CANIAS ERP
system presents not only one of the most advanced
and feature-complete ERP systems, but also enables
the highest security standard for worldwide business.
Flexible and adaptable work flow configurations
The CANIAS ERP system does not offer predefined
workflows, as such workflows never provide the exact
functionality required by business users, and are also
very difficult to modify. Instead, the CANIAS ERP
system implements workflows using intelligent triggers that can be integrated with any process in the system.
This enables fast and convenient organization of all
workflows, including event-driven and ad-hoc
workflows.
The highly flexible software development environment
ensures that all workflows can be displayed using
conventional symbols, graphical symbols as well as
bitmaps. As each graphical object supports full
programmability, customer-specific, full-featured
and intelligent workflows can be created.
Simple pull-based functionality, where the user checks
to see if data is available for processing, as well as
push-based functionality, where the system signals the
user that an event has occurred and that data is
available, can be created. Background triggers are
continuously processed and are updated based on
time schedules.
No limits for full customization
There are no limits to customization with the CANIAS
ERP system. Without the need for programming, all
dialogs can be modified, down to the preferences of
each individual user in the system.
It is easily possible to specify the font for field labels
as well as the text used in filling out forms. Each field
label, dialog box and background can be changed in
color and design. This allows the CANIAS ERP system
to be customized according to your corporate identity
specifications or to those of your clients and
suppliers.
Individual customization
The TROIA tool, the system's IDE (Integrated
Development Environment), is included standard as
part of the base system, and empower our customers
to take full advantage of the flexibility and scalability
provided by the CANIAS ERP system. The ability to
customize the system remains an important factor,
so as to be able to address customer specific
requirements in full.
CANIAS ERP is fully object-oriented, allowing
modifications to be preserved after system version
updates. Due to its inheritance functionality, modifications are not applied to the base system code
but instead to objects derived from the base code.
The dynamic orientation system within the TROIA tool
allows newly created classes and dialogues to be used
without change to existing classes and dialogues. This
protects the base code while enabling
organization-specific changes.
In addition to the standard programming features
offered by modern development tools, TROIA provides
extended features such as graphics and design
functionality, report and layout wizards, direct
database access, diagramming functions, tree
structures, and diagram displays.
Since the development environment is integrated with
the database, development can take place at runtime
and the time-consuming compile and link cycles are
eliminated.
Thanks to its Java interpreter, the TROIA code is
interpreted at runtime, which dramatically improves
development schedules.
Master Data: Readily available base system data
The base system supports the definition and the administration of the following master data:
Material master
Customers and vendors master
Material classes
Addresses
Cost centers
For customer and vendors main records, data
pertaining to contact info, discount and pricing
criteria, bank and accounting base data and data
relevant to all associated modules, are maintained.
Materials records provide the base data for all
materials including raw materials and
semi-finished products, and store all information
about the materials relationships with associated
modules.
Customer, vendors and materials data are
considered to be compulsory data that is essential
to nearly all businesses and is therefore located
within the base system.
Other related master data such as BOMs (Bill of
Materials) and routing data depend more on the
company's activities (production or commerce) and
are therefore included in system extensions.
As the CANIAS ERP system is multi-client capable,
all master data is keyed by company, factory and business unit codes, in order to provide a clear
separation among configured clients.
Processes can be controlled through master data
management using manually set up and event-driven
workflows, so that the relevant data entries can be
performed by user authorizations and tasks. At the
same time, the central administration of master data
is also possible. The address book allows for
convenient administration of user accounts.
Both business and private information about contacts
can be recorded, as well as any number of e-mail
addresses. Furthermore, description and details
about contacts can be entered by long text, and
an image file for the contact can also be stored.
All dialogs in your preferred language
The CANIAS ERP system can be used in different
languages across all modules and processes. In
addition to the languages available in the standard
system, an integrated translation tool allows
for rapid and individual translation of all user
dialogs. This may be accomplished in one of two
ways: through the modification of a table containing
the data for all dialogs within the system, or by
direct modification of the application for the single
dialog in question.
Due to the flexible configuration of the system,
repeated modifications of identical field labels in
multiple dialogs are avoided. In addition to the dialog
translation capability, it is also possible to generate
reports and receipts in the CANIAS ERP system using different languages.
The integrated receipt generator and the system
language control allow for process-driven and
automatically linked specific-language receipts,
based on the language of the recipient into
consideration.
The convenient way to your fully customized system
The proper configuration of your system will result
in ease of use of the dialogs across different areas of
your organization. Human factors engineering used for
the design of the system further provides an
intelligent and user-friendly system.
The simple user authentication concept, coupled with
customizable and programmable workflows, allow for
flexibility and scalability not commonly found in
traditional ERP systems.
It is not possible to provide an ERP system that fits all
businesses, but it is the customization capabilities of
an ERP system that makes it meet the individual
requirements posed by businesses. With its advanced
and object-oriented architecture and the full access, it
provides to its base system code. The CANIAS ERP
system offers maximum level of flexibility for
customization and workflow configuration.
An integration standard that offers new possibilities
Since the wide range of modules offered by the CANIAS ERP system have all been developed by
IAS, our customers are not faced with complex
interfaces; consistent access to data across
system modules is guaranteed. Furthermore, the
functions and applications found in the base
system are essential for all users across all
departments, making the CANIAS ERP Base
Module the foundation and core module of the
system.
While each individual module has built-in features
to allow integration with associated modules, the
Base module functionality is there to ensure that
the highest level of integration across all system
modules is accomplished.
Features at a Glance:
Convenient configuration according to customer requirements
Unrestricted specification of object attributes
Straightforward administration of user access rights
Highest level of flexibility and scalability
Integrated development environment (TROIA)
Full access to application source code
Programmable Workflow Management Tool
Graphical design of workflows
Rapid customization (modifications remain after system version updates)
Dialogs are customizable per end-user with multi-language support
Multi-language support for all fields, reports and documents
Multi-client capable
Integrated digital authentication technology (including one time password and digital certificates)
