Admin Domain

The Admin domain includes modules and applications to define user access, set up workflows and jobs, configure user preferences, and more.

Module Application Functions
System Administration
  • Establishes and maintains Costpoint system-wide information.
  • Controls security, maintenance of system-wide codes and defaults, and usage management.
  • Provides preprocessors to link and transfer data between Costpoint and outside databases.
Security
  • Manages users and user groups for security purposes.
  • Activates organizational security by module.
  • Manages organization security groups and profiles.
  • Manages Application and Segregation of Duties conflicts.
  • Stores license information.
  • Customizes user interface (UI) labels, specifies UI settings for individual users, and manages extensibility units.
Job Management
  • Conveniently combines separate Costpoint functions, such as reports, computations, and postings, into a single process.
  • Sets up several combinations for execution at scheduled dates and times, either on workstations or dedicated process servers.
  • Places multiple processes in a queue, thereby reducing database contention and freeing up workstations for other activities.
  • Schedules queue entries for immediate commencement or designated future occurrences.
Workflow
  • Defines business process activities, the staff involved, and how and when information flows from person to person.
  • Automatically routes information and transactions to each stakeholder.
  • Replaces physical inboxes with electronic ones, and replaces manual copying and distribution with automatic routing rules.
  • Documents activities and processes and automates and measures workload.
  • Applies workflow to virtually any business process that impacts the accounting, contracts, purchasing, or HR departments, including setting up contracts, hiring employees, approving purchase orders, and month-end close procedures.