Products & Services


ACUMEN ERP Consulting and Project Management

ACUMEN employs highly qualified and certified consultants with considerable practical experience in the management of distribution and manufacturing organizations.    This allows us to confidently manage the implementation of ERP-specific information systems using tried and true project management and critical path methodology.    In addition, our consultants are expert at business process re-engineering, constraint and process analysis, Points of Productivity (P.O.P.TM) analysis and continuous improvement process implementation.  Our consultants are qualified in one or more ERP or client/server accounting systems including SAP Business One, Foresight's MXP, Frontstep's SyteLine, QAD, and OpenAccounts.



 

SAP® Business One is an integrated, affordable, business management solution built from the ground up on the latest Microsoft technology to meet the immediate and long-term needs of small and midsize businesses.   It provides a true and unified view of operations across customer relationship management, manufacturing, and finance.   Simple to use yet powerful, SAP Business One puts business users in charge, arming them with the critical, up-to-the-minute information they need to make smart business decisions.   ACUMEN is proud to represent the SAP esteemed name and this excellent product.


 

ACUMEN proudly offers the premier enterprise-class, web-enabled accounting and financial system on the market today.   Utilizing robust RDBMS technology and developed with an attractive Graphical User Interface (GUI), OpenAccounts provides certified Euro-ready, multi-national, multi-currency, multi-divisional, and multi-company financial management and reporting capability.   Modules include General Ledger, Accounts Payable, Accounts Receivable, Financial Reporting, and Project Costing.   In addition, the Executive Desktop Reporting (EDR) module provides extended analytical reporting that makes use of your current Microsoft Excel desktop suite.

The OpenLink module allows OpenAccounts to be integrated seamlessly to legacy and best-of-breed vertical solutions.    OpenAccounts is implemented by our professional Certified Public Accountants and integrated by our Microsoft and/or UNIX certified technical team.    Please click here for more information on OpenAccounts.


 

Progress ProgressTM
Software
Development

ACUMEN develops modifications and new subsystems for our clients using Progress Software based solutions including Foresight's MXP, Frontstep's SyteLine, QAD, and OpenAccounts.    ACUMEN performs these services both at the client site or in our quality-controlled development labs in Richmond, Virginia, South Carolina, and Montreal, Canada.    ACUMEN is a Progress Application Partner and offers development in Versions 6, 7, 8, and 9.


 

Microsoft Certified Solution Provider

ACUMEN Corporation has recently achieved Microsoft Solution Provider status, further illustrating our continuing commitment to education and certification for our consultants and technicians.    Since many of the software packages developed by our strategic partners rely on the Microsoft NT operating environment, it's appropriate that ACUMEN provide the expertise to properly deploy and fine tune your NT system and network.

In addition to this designation, ACUMEN announces the availability of developmental services in the very popular Microsoft Visual Basic language.


 

Foresight Business Partner

For many years, ACUMEN has managed successful implementations of the broad suite of products from Foresight Software of Atlanta, Georgia.    Foresight specializes in ERP and customer interaction systems written in the Progress fourth generation language.    Our expertise with Foresight's MXP is unmatched worldwide and our quality-controlled labs offer enhancements and logical extensions to the product family.

Please visit our Success Stories pages to discover how ACUMEN has helped our clients leverage their investment in MXP.