‘The impact of implementing Star Practice Management has been significant, with unbilled WIP now at the lowest level I have ever seen.’
Kevin Salter, IT Partner, Glover Stanbury – Devon
‘We may have seven offices, but we are very much one firm. A single CRM system across all offices is essential to that culture.’
Philip Bald, Director, A9 Partnership - Scotland
‘Compared to other vendors, Star’s people knew the most about the accounting profession. We felt very comfortable with Star’s knowledge and depth of experience.’
Joan Payne, CFO, Rehmann - USA
‘The fact that Star ticked so many boxes for Practice Management and could also provide an overall accounting solution in the shape of Microsoft Dynamics Nav (formerly Navision) means we only have to work with one supplier for a complete solution.’
Paul Watterson, Operations Director, Abacus - Isle of Man
‘Many of the support department come from an accountancy background and that can really help when you are discussing complex accounting points – it also meant the initial consultancy and training was first rate.’
Richard Searle, Director, BDO LLP – Guernsey
‘The Star system will help all of our principals, managers and staff to do their day to day jobs better. We are thrilled with Star’s attention and service.’
Blain Heckaman, Principal, Kaufman, Rossin & Co - Florida and Cayman Islands
‘As the firm has grown and our needs have changed, Star has helped us to develop and enhance the system to keep pace with our requirements. I have also found Star’s consulting services and support to be excellent when needed.’
Jonathan Patenaude, Manager MIS, Finance & Admin, Grant Thornton - Canada
‘The ease of use, responsiveness of the system and flexibility of reporting have all come up to expectations, as did the standard of Star’s implementation support.’
Stephen Slater, Partner, RMT - Tyne & Wear
‘We anticipate a more efficient and effective process for client engagement budgeting and staff scheduling, greater productivity, and improved management tools.’
Blain Heckaman, Principal, Kaufman, Rossin & Co - Florida and Cayman Islands
‘Bringing Star Practice Management onboard brought a step-change improvement in how we ran the business and accrued revenue. I have every confidence that if we were to double in size tomorrow, Star Practice Management software would be able to support us.’
Allen Smith, CIO, Baker Tilly Virchow Krause - USA
Managing BI and Reporting
Dashboard
The Star Practice Dashboard is a powerful yet easy to use web-based BI tool that is aimed at partners, managers and other staff. Its key benefit is its ability to interrogate any information in the underlying database and present it in a way that is highly intuitive and helpful to the end user.
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Star TaskCentre
Star TaskCentre, powered by Orbis, is a powerful suite of Business Process Management (BPM) technologies, encompassing Workflow and Alerts, that enables firms to monitor pro-actively and report on key information. Whilst traditional reporting tools will typically provide historic information, Star TaskCentre is event-driven and can notify designated staff immediately exceptions occur, using email or even SMS.
OLAP
The Star OLAP dataset extends our reporting capabilities beyond traditional standard reports to provide complex multi-dimensional reporting, using a variety of tools from Excel Pivot-tables to Microsoft Reporting Services. The OLAP cube containing Star PM-related information enables users to generate both standard and ad-hoc queries, with full drill down to transactional data where appropriate. This powerful facility is especially useful for trend analysis and KPI variance analysis.