Business IT Solutions

Opera 3 (1.00) is the next generation of our Opera solution, delivering brand new applications, additional functionality and enhancements plus an improved user interface with a fresh and modern Office 2010 look and feel.

Navigating around the Opera 3 solution couldn't be easier with the new user interface. We've given Opera 3 a fresh, new look and feel based on Office 2010 and added new icons, to easily identify the applications functions.  

New Scheduler application

• Backing up your Opera 3 data
• Running Update Data Structures to update your data to the latest database structures
• Tidying the system files in Opera 3 to remove report layout, user and company profile records that have been marked for deletion, to clear temporary files, to clear event logs, and to tidy VAT files and exchange rates
• Rebuilding the periods and transaction history in the Nominal Ledger
• Running the Period End in the Sales Ledger, Purchase Ledger and Nominal Ledger

Additionally, you can define tasks to be run for several companies, even over multiple systems, consecutively. This is very useful if you run multi-company Opera 3 installations.

VAT 100 online filing

This will help users to submit the VAT100 Return quickly, securely and accurately directly from within Opera 3.

Open Period Accounting functionality

Opera 3 offers the Open Period Accounting functionality. Transactions can easily be posted from other applications such as Sales, Purchase, Cashbook and Payroll into any open period of the current or next 3 financial years. Other applications post to the Nominal Ledger by either batch update or real-time transfer. Even mis-posted nominal journal entries can be reversed and rectified quickly and accurately. Nominal Journals can be raised to the previous year as long as the period is open.

This makes the Nominal Ledger a far more powerful and flexible tool in which to analyse the companies financial data.

The starting point to open period accounting is to define the Periods. If that Period is open transactions from the Sales, Purchase, Nominal, Cashbook, Fixed Assets, Stock, BOM and Payroll applications within Opera 3 can be posted.

Improved Reporting

Opera 3 now has significant enhancements added to reporting. Multiple reports can be run at the same time. This allows you to minimise the current report and launch a second report. This is particularly useful if you want to compare the information in one report with that in the second report, simply lay them side by side on screen.

It is also possible to invoke the search routine within the report. This creates a “book mark” list on the left hand side of the report that allows you to quickly navigate to instances of the text string that you were looking for. A quick and simple way to navigate through your reports, particularly useful if the report is many pages long.
 
You can output many of the Opera 3 reports directly through to MS Excel. When you select the File option on the Publisher, you can select the report to be output in an Excel Report format. This allows for far better data manipulation of the results in that report.

The in-built graph generator available for many of the Opera 3 Views, makes the display of information much easier for the user to interpret. These graphs can be re-orientated, the colours modified, they can be printed or exported, and can be cut and pasted into MS Word or Excel. It's a much more powerful way to display your data.

New Help

The Opera 3 Help has been improved, and can be accessed from all forms in the application. The Help is designed to be read on screen but you can also print relevant topics if required. Each form in Opera 3 has a Help button that opens the Help topic relevant for that form. When you click the Help button, only the Help that you are interested in is displayed so you are not overwhelmed with Help topics for the entire application.

To help you find other information you may be interested in, most Help topics include a Related Topics Help button that links to other related topics in the Help system.

Within each application is a set of 'How to...' topics which gives quick to the point information on how to perform a specific task.

It is also easier to search for information in Opera 3. The search results show you the module that the information was found in, thereby helping you to decide which topic to open. A comprehensive index is available too.

Each application has its own Help system that is structured according to your information requirements: If you need a high-level understanding of the module, read the 'Introduction to ... " Help topic that describes the different areas of an application and includes a chart that shows you how it links to other applications in Opera 3. Each application in Opera 3 has an Introduction Help topic.

Opera 3 Info Centre