Dream - Add on tools

Integration, control and connectivity

Dream is complemented by a range of purpose-built tools that add real value to the solution, helping you to get relevant data into the system more efficiently and to make your financial information more accessible and useful to the right people – whenever they need it, wherever they are.

Thanks to our integration toolset, Dream users can take advantage of the ultimate in connectivity with your other business systems – minimising implementation risks, helping you to integrate with business partners and connect with customers.

DreamView

Our DreamView tools build upon and extend Dream’s in-built browsing and reporting functionality, by providing direct, seamless access to external reporting products – helping you to interrogate your data and prepare custom reports.

DreamView is a separately installable and licensable product, and can be deployed on all the current Dream database platforms, including SQL Server and Oracle. It is very simple to implement and extends the power and flexibility of Microsoft® Excel® for Dream users. Users can extract data in two ways: as a once-only, static report OR configured to refresh dynamically to provide an “up-to-the-minute” view. These extracts work on the most popular entities, including Nominals, Accounts, Balances and Budgets. It supports an unlimited number of database connections, allowing cross-company or cross-database reporting. In addition to the familiarity and ease of working with Excel, DreamView enables you to develop reports centrally and then email them to other managers, who can then each update the reports from Dream or investigate the figures further.

It offers a range of benefits:

• rapid return on investment
• users are quickly up and running
• minimal technical input needed to set up and use
• simple access to key data and performance indicators
• easy formatting and distribution of reports
• better access to information for decision makers
• data protected by Dream access permissions.

Secure, online working

It’s not just the Accounts department who can enjoy the benefits of Dream. Often there are potential users across the organisation, who could be more efficient if they were able to access information directly or carry out a range of day-to-day administrative tasks themselves (instead of using separate, often manual, systems). Dream uses Web Services to extend secure, online access to Dream, to cater for occasional, partial or remote users.