FiscalityONE Company
| Privately held company | |
| ISIN | 🆔 |
| Industry | Computer Software |
| Genre | Enterprise_resource_planning |
| Founded 📆 | United Kingdom (1996) |
| Founder 👔 | |
| Headquarters 🏙️ | , , |
Area served 🗺️ | |
Key people | Steven Crowley (Founder and CEO) |
| Members | |
Number of employees | |
| 🌐 Website | www.fiscality.co.uk |
| 📇 Address | |
| 📞 telephone | |
| Stable release | 2017
/ 11 July 2017 |
|---|---|
| Engine | |
| Operating system | Microsoft Windows |
| License | Proprietary |
| Website | www |
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FiscalityONE is a low-footprint business management (ERP/MRP/WMS) software application for Microsoft Windows.
The application comprises highly integrated software modules that provide application-specific functionality within a tabbed spreadsheet-like host user interface.
The product is intended to assist with finance, manufacturing, supply chains, and integration with external electronic commerce systems for Small and Medium-sized Enterprises and subsidiaries of larger international groups, where, for example, FiscalityONE was implemented at the UK's largest pharmaceutical manufacturer to bridge a critical gap in functionality of their global system.
For modifications of the system, the proprietary programming language C/AL is used.
Redevelopment
- The latest version, released in July 2017, is a complete rewrite of the original 23-year-old source code.
- The database structures were migrated from a collection of Microsoft Access databases to PostgreSQL running on an Ubuntu (operating system) 64-bit 14.04 LTS virtualized server.
- A significant portion of the application code and database logic was shifted from the Windows client to PostgreSQL/PLPGSQL/Python/Ruby functions and triggers, resulting in enormous performance and data integrity improvements.
- Several previously separate modules were merged into one application during the redevelopment.
- Considerable work was done to ensure the software performs well on modern versions of Windows, both running with restricted user rights and with UAC enabled.
Touch Screen Interfaces
Many user interfaces were redesigned for optimized touch-screen input, primarily for use in production and warehouse environments, where complex keyboard input is time-consuming and difficult for less computer-literate users. The interfaces were designed using bright colors, large buttons, and fonts for clear visibility from a distance.
Optimisation for low-power compute sticks
One of the key objectives during the rewrite was to minimize the software's footprint (memory requirements, CPU load, network activity) to ensure good performance on new, small, low-cost, low-power Intel Atom-based compute sticks (connected to the LAN via Ethernet or Wi-Fi). This development eliminated the need for existing thin-client terminals and remote-desktop servers.
Terminals can now be installed deeper into production environments without requiring heavy-duty hardware. This is advantageous in operations like manufacturing and construction, where dirt and other environmental factors complicate equipment operation.
AddIns
FiscalityONE's core functionality can be easily extended via the development of both entirely new application modules and additional application COM Add-ins, similar to other Windows applications, such as Microsoft Excel. FiscalityONE allows for considerable developer freedom, without requiring additional developer licenses or significant payments for special developer subscriptions.
Add-ins can extend FiscalityONE's core functionality, for example, for a specific industry, without heavily customizing the core application code.
History
The initial version of FiscalityONE, codenamed 'XPOS', was developed by Steven Crowley in the mid-1990s (primarily in Visual Basic 3, running on Windows 3.11 and Windows 95). Starting as a procurement system for a leading London-based TV & film production/special effects house, the system grew to include broader functionality for warehouse inventory management, customer order fulfillment, accounting, and asset management (for physical assets in safety-critical environments).
Features
- Financial management
- Supply chain management
- Manufacturing
- Distribution
- Sales and marketing
- Warehouse management
- Asset management (installed parts, expiry dates & maintenance schedules)
- Product image management
- WebCMS
Architecture
FiscalityONE software consists of two major components:
- The Database Server: a database storing FiscalityONE data (PostgreSQL) (with functions and triggers written in PLPGSQL, Python, and Ruby). Previous versions included support for MySQL, Microsoft SQL Server and Firebird. PostgreSQL is a powerful, mature object-relational database system (ORDBMS), widely considered the world's most powerful open-source, cross-platform database, initially released 21 years ago.
- The COM-based Windows client software: the user interface, which can host multiple applications. It's divided into discrete COM servers, externally programmable with any COM-aware language.
– Application logic / API – Interface Component (Manufacturing, Accounting, etc.) – Interface Component Add-ins (Industry specific) – Grid Interface (generic) – Grid Interface Add-ins
Various parts of FiscalityONE are user-programmable via VBScript and JavaScript, enabling tailored software customization without modifying the core code.
References
External links
- "FiscalityONE Website". FiscalityONE. Retrieved 2017-07-12.
See also
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