User Guide

Understanding the Benefits of the Sage Accpac ERP Architecture
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Sage Accpac ERP
Technology
Figure 13—Sage Accpac Bank Services screens running within an Internet browser.
Linux. Sage Accpac allows you to run on a Linux database. In today’s competitive market, Linux has
been steadily gaining market share due to its stability, performance, functionality, and total cost of
ownership. Many companies are adopting a wide-scale deployment of both Linux servers and Linux
workstations. Sage Accpac can happily exist in a mixed environment of Windows workstations and
both Linux and Windows servers, all of these working together seamlessly.
Conclusion
A software architecture reflects the way a product is organized. The way a software product is
organized determines how well, or how poorly, it fits into the software landscape of industry-standard
technology as well as existing and evolving technology and business paradigms. It also determines
how well it scales from both a transactional and user-count perspective. The foundation of a superior
business management architecture is that it is organized into layers: There is a separation of core
business logic from interface and database services.
The benefit of a strong architecture and good implementation is that the resulting product will:
• Stand the test of time.
• Embrace industry-standard technology quickly and naturally.
• Customize easily to fit the special needs of your business.
• Deploy flexibly to new paradigms.
• Scale to the changing size of your business.
Allow greater independence to make choices such as database or operating system. A superior
architecture is not created overnight. Creating a product with a superior architecture takes a huge
investment over a number of years. Sage has made that investment. Over the past decade, as
software fads have come and gone, the architectural message and object-oriented approach of Sage
Accpac has remained unchanged. The Sage Accpac ERP architecture stands the test of time and is
ready to deliver value to your business for years to come.