Sky Software is a back office suite for accounting firms and despite the different modules for different disciplines is in fact one product that is totally integrated and available to the whole accounting firm. Although totally integrated the software retains the 5 most important back office disciplines for an accounting firm. These are
SKY software products are the only integrated software suite in South Africa. When you load the application you have access to everything, provided your administrator has given you rights. This means every single aspect of a client is available to you, for example if you are working on a secretarial client and you wish to view how much the client owes - two clicks and you are there. There are no other competitive products in South Africa that does the same. In order to see what debtors are with a competitive product, you have to load another application, and then the company secretarial position load another application.
The core of our systems is the main data base or client file where all the applications Tax, Secretarial Time and Debtors work off the main database.
A SQL database called PostgreSQL is used in 70% of cloud based systems in the world, is our SQL database of choice and the programming language is Java script. These aspects lend themselves to producing an application which is cloud ready and web enabled which can handle an unlimited amount of data.
Sky Software is installed on the server and various terminals across the office can access the system via browser or smart client (very small Java applet that is downloaded to the terminal). There are no complicated software installations on terminals and users can roll out the software to as many users as they want as we now offer an unlimited user licence which will improve the efficiency of your practice many time over.
The software has moved to being totally screen based or enquiry based allowing the user to access any aspect that they want, provided they have been given the access rights.
