Philip Toledo wins second Access Accounts award

Philip Toledo Ltd, a leading local information technology firm, recently won an international award for the second time from Access Accounts Ltd.

Senior Solutions Consultant Julian Sant Fournier went to the United Kingdom to receive the prestigious award, which was presented during the annual international conference.

The award was given in recognition of the company's performance in the past 12 months. Access Accounts Ltd reviewed many factors of all international distributors, such as how the access business has grown within the territory, how proactive the distributor is in marketing and sales, and the technical knowledge and quality of the service that is provided to the end users.

Each year distributors of Access Accounts Ltd meet for their annual conference to discuss various topics and to get a preview of the latest trends in business software, which will be released in the coming 12 months.

This year's conference was held at the Open University, Milton Keynes. The event turned out to be the biggest and best ever international dealer conference.

Hundreds of participants from all over the world were present as Access Accounts Ltd unveiled executive information systems, launching of Dimensions. NET, launching of Dimensions Lite, the integration of facilities with third party solutions via API, Excel add-ins - a facility that puts Access Accounts on the Microsoft Excel menu - paperless communication with e-mail and fax integration, as well as proactive management and e-mail alert integration in Access flagship, Dimensions software.

Access managing director Alistair O'Reilly said: "This was our biggest and best event ever. It broke all records in terms of attendance and positive feedback from dealers.

It proves that Access technology and the dealer channel are moving together at an incredible speed."

Philip Toledo Limited have been an Access Channel Partner since 1996, and have successfully installed Access Accounts in over 50 sites, which together manage systems for over 300 companies spanning several industries in Malta including the financial services, off-shore, consultancy, telecommunications, heavy engineering, medical, pharmaceutical, wines and spirits, freight, hospitality, information technology, distribution and retail industries.

Access Accounting Ltd was formed in 1991 to bring the benefits of Windows to accounting software. Its software is in use today by over 11,000 companies worldwide. Software is sold in the UK through a national network of specialist centres and internationally through Access partners.

The company has grown by 40 per cent each year. It is an ISO 9001 (TickIT) registered firm. With over 130 staff based in the Colchester head office, everything is designed, developed and produced in the UK.

Access Accounts offers a complete range of Windows 2000 and PowerPC, Web enabled financial management and accounting software that scales to suit your size of business and your budget.

Access is a pioneer in financial data management with modules encompassing buying, selling, ordering, costing and inventory control, all being fully web-enabled and with powerful management reporting.

An innovator in e-commerce solutions, Access Accounting Ltd requires its dealers to place all their orders over the Internet using Access Order Wizard (AOW). This is now available for Access users via Dimensions .NET technology.

Dimensions is the flagship client/server software for large companies with up to 200 concurrent users. It has 20 modules plus multi-currency, euro compliancy, dual-base currency and multi-lingual options. The Dimensions product range is based on Microsoft SQL or Oracle.

Access Accounts was voted Best Mid-Range Business Software for 1997/8 by BASDA, the governing body of accounts software developers. It is accredited under the Accredited Product Scheme run by the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales (ICAEW).

Access released its EMU-compliant software in 1998. It offers dual based currency, triangulation and the ability to report in home currency, the Euro and in multiple foreign currencies. It achieved BASDA EMU accreditation for Multi-Currency and Triangulation in 1999 - one of an elite group in the world to receive this accreditation.

For information on Access Accounts contact Mr Sant Fournier at Philip Toledo Ltd on 2144-5566, e-mail: jsfournier@ptl.com.mt or visit www.access-accounts.com.