Unlike most accounting systems and processes (e.g. GL and AP), which are fairly standardized, budgeting, reforecasting and reporting processes differ radically between sectors and even between organizations within a sector. For example, budgeting in a University environment has very little in common with budgeting in a pharmaceutical company. Any software tool which hopes to support a variety of processes even within a single sector needs to be extremely flexible and follow open industry standards for data storage and interfacing. For example such a system cannot predefine the accounting structures used to capture and manipulate data, as these will usually be dictated by source systems such as General Ledgers or Job Cost systems, but must be able to adapt to virtually any such structure required. This type of flexibility is no easy task.
FMW Enterprise is built upon a data warehouse, which has highly flexible and configurable data structures, which in turn allow the system to be molded to meet the requirements of a variety of applications. The database architecture is also highly tuned with the result that the system can manage both large data volumes and large numbers of concurrent users.

An attractive, functional and graphically-oriented interface allows users be become highly productive with the minimum of effort. All functions are accessed through an icon-driven navigator, which is customized for each user depending on his access profile.