Niche Accounting Software for North East Public Schools
What do you like best?
- Crystal Reports engine allows for a great amount of granularity in constructing reports
- Citrix framework allows for platform use by any client device that supports Citrix Receiver
- Support for migration from defunct FoxPro to standard Oracle SQL DB this year is very welcomed and long overdue
- Shortcuts are very useful once you learn them, although they are not immediately intuitive
What do you dislike?
- The tables in Wincap are extremely difficult to mass extract or import data to/from, but this may improve once we migrate from FoxPro to Oracle
- Building Employee columnar reports is very clunky and for some strange reason limited to 10 columns
- Wincap field codes are not easy to reference on or across tables
- Customer service/tech support has become simply abysmal since being acquired by Harris Computers
Recommendations to others considering the product:
If you are on the North East, you have the choice of Wincap or Finance Manager (Nvision).
What problems are you solving with the product? What benefits have you realized?
- NYS reporting of employee data relies very heavily on Wincap's HR module
- Budget creation for school district
- Procurement with purchase orders