Project Objective III Accounting is Boring. Make it fun:

The successful completion of the many and complex accounting tasks is not an exciting process. It will never compare with slaying three million monsters in a video game but if we can come closer to that or a similar experience, it could at least not be total monotony. Getting involved with your accounting sounds like politically correct psycho babble but it helps defeat the boredom of data entry.

With the drag and drop functions of UDS ActiveApplications, complex tasks that would require much more information than can be displayed in a ‘normal’ accounting program can be accomplished with ease in UDS Windows. Because you are using the mouse for most of the input and process initiation UDS Windows naturally offers much more visual feedback to your brain. Even labor intensive, detailed and repetitive tasks are more satisfying to accomplish. Seeing the information being assembled as you accomplish the task provides an excellent feeling of process completion.

UDS has taken a great step toward providing the structure of a system that is used to mimic the true business process in a friendly way. Do not interpret this to mean that the UDS Accounting system is simple to use. It is not. If you want simple in your business process it means that your application must be limited in what is accomplished. In writing computer programs they can be simple and therefore easy to use or complex and therefore complicated. Your business has complex and intricate tasks that must be accomplished every day or your business will not be able to provide the service level necessary to be successful. UDS writes software to complete those complex and intricate tasks in an efficient and fun way.

The UDS Windows Accounting system is a way of representing relationships between pieces of information within your company and in an application. Application pieces represented by the Windows operating system as application windows are related to other windows because the information within them. The windows represent tables in a database that is composed of pieces of information called fields. The fields within one table could be related to fields in another table or when combined with the fields in another table create the fields in a third table. If we apply this complicated and general statement to a specific example, we get the customer name and number from the customer file when combined with the item number and description from the inventory file to create an order. In this example an order is related to the customer and item files although it is in a separate table. The business rules that govern that relationship are what we call a computer program.

Writing understandable programs that represent these complex relationships is what makes a good program. Doing this is a unique and understandable way is what makes great programs. We believe ActiveApplications to be an exceptional program. This program is about your information and how it can be manipulated to get your work accomplished quickly and easily.