alio automates district financial, payroll and personnel needs, providing online inquiries and comprehensive reports. They are designed with accounting procedures and auditing controls so that administrators can easily budget, monitor and control their school’s finances. Information is electronically transferred to the general ledger, minimizing data entry requirements. Marcia Brenner Associates provides complete software, installation, training, and support.

General System Overview

alio is a complete family of software products for the support of administrative functions in government and education. The software is designed to enhance decision making by providing timely and accurate information to the administrator in an interactive environment.

The alio Financial Accounting System (FAS) is designed to meet the budgeting and accounting needs of educational institutions. Since the system has extensive security features, FAS may be used in centralized or decentralized organizations, where, for example, the input of requisitions is allowed at the site level. User access is restricted to those accounts and functions that are specific to their authorized location.

All accounting and budgetary data is integrated into one database in FAS, completely eliminating redundant input. The consolidation of data allows users to maintain and report all related information in a timely, effective manner. The systems unique Drill-Thru allows users to drill from summary to detailed data, as well as from one application to the other, providing a paperless option for information gathering.

System Features

System administration of your alio products includes system security and operational control. System administration helps you streamline the use of your alio applications.

alio software benefits users through flexibility in definition of user access to programs and data. Comprehensive security is provided on a field, function, program, menu and/or application level to allow administrators to easily define the proper access for each user.

The system offers definition of different levels of access for each user and role. For example, user access can be defined to allow for access levels such as view, add, modify, or delete for each program and screen.

Favorites menus can be developed by each user, based on his/her security access. Shortcuts provide users a way to navigate quickly to programs. Users can also search for programs based on any portion of the program name. All systems are fully interactive with menus, scroll bars, "radio buttons" drop-down lists and “hot keys” for ease of operation.

All years are stored in a relational database, which facilitates historical reporting based on date ranges. All applications are integrated to eliminate redundant data entry.

Highlights

• Controls user access by application, menu, program, function and/or field
  
• Fields can be relabeled, hidden or made required within each program
  
• Enables tailoring of user menus, HELP text, and program descriptions
  
• All user documentation available in PDF format
  
• All reports can be previewed on the screen and generated in PDF, XML, HTML, RTF or delimited files
  
• Supports database “Roll-Back” so the database can mirror any prior date
  
• Integration to Microsoft® Excel®, Word® and Access® office products
  
• Ability to store scanned images in the database and attach the images to specific records
  

For more information, contact Peter Brenner at 800-258-0190 x802, or pbrenner@mba-link.com.