| accfin_sky_architecture.pdf |
Accfin Sky Cloud Server
Option 1
The normal Accfin Cloud Server. The cost of this licence is included in pricing of Sky Software
Option 2
Accfin can provide the following services by providing you with your own virtual server.
AccfinSky Cloud Server
Shared Application Server Hosting
By running your Accfin Sky software solution on the above, Accfin Software will provide the following inclusive management services
The cost for the above offering is R 1,800.00 per month exclusive of VAT
And is payable by means of a monthly debit order.
SKY TECHNICAL SPECS
Accfin Sky is a complete solution to the accounting and auditor back office and consists of separate but related modules
Viz
The development language utilised is Java and Javascript
Deployment Platforms
Server Requirements
Hardware and Operating system Requirements
Windows
Quad Processor 3.5 GHz
500 GB Hard disk
32 GB Memory
Windows Server 2012
500Mb Free disk space
Linux
Intel Pentium III, IV, M, D 1Ghz or higher
1Gb RAM
300Mb Free disk space
OS X
Intel CPU 1Ghz or higher
1Gb RAM
300Mb Free disk space
Mac OS X 10.4 or higher
These requirements are the minimum requirements and performance is related to the number of simultaneous client/user access and type of client/user access
Access Requirements
The following ports need to be remotely accessible on the server by the client/user.
1. Port 8080 for the initial client installation.
2. Port 1099 for the communication between the client and the server.
3. Port 5432 for the DBMS access
4. Port 443 for connection to SARS Efiling
If the server is going to be accessed internally (on the same network) these port will not have to be opened, but if the server is to be accessed externally these port must be checked and opened if necessary.
Additionally to the above
Outgoing access must be available to the following
IP Address : 197.189.207.58 or sky.accfin.co.za
Port : 5432
The application can be accessed from the client side as either
Eg Internet Explorer, Chrome, Fire Fox
Access to the server as detailed above
Java Ver 6 or 7
Hardware and software requirements as per server above
Access to the server if remotely accessed
A screen/monitor with a minimum resolution of 1280 x 1024 is recommended
Server Memory Calculation
Minimum Memory 4GB
General Server and Application Memory 1.5GB
For every Smart client 15MB
For every Web client 25MB
Eg On the minimum memory spec the optimal smart clients is 150
SKY INTERNET SPECIFICATIONS
INTERNET CONNECTION
Sufficient speed is dependent on the number of concurrent users (a good benchmark would be 2MB per user and then round it up)
Must be Unshaped, Unlimited and Unthrottled
Unshaped means that you must have equal upload and download and also that the “traffic” for the line must have no priority for any specific type of traffic. e.g. being higher priority for smtp or emails etc
Remember that you require both upload and download speeds to be sufficient as you will be doing both in the Sky applications.
Certain functions do utilise more downloads, i.e. reading / retrieving of data from a cloud server while others require both, like data entries which utilise uploads, that is writing /submitting data to the cloud server and this utilises the upload speeds and this then is also “shared” between all the users active at the same time.
Unlimited, is the amount of data traffic that is allowed during the course of the month. If it is limited, then speeds will slow down considerably when your threshold is reached.
Unthrottled is where even if the data is unlimited, when you reach a threshold of amount of data, the speed is then throttled / diminished as per fair use policy of your ISP.
Or when there are high volumes of data (this applies to your ISP as well, that is other users utilising your ISP at the same time) then the speeds are reduced to cater for this volume.
OFFICE 365 SECURITY
On Office 365 it has a blanket security setting called security defaults.
This sets the most common settings people would use and it enabled by default.
Multi factor authentication(MFA) being one of the settings.
See this link for more detailed explanation.
Providing a default level of security in Azure Active Directory - Microsoft Entra | Microsoft Learn
This however blocks Sky from working as well.
Microsoft allows you disable this blanket setting if you need a more granular control over you security settings.
You can disable this and then go and enable everything needed on a per need basis for example MFA.
This link gives more detail on how to do this.
Secure your resources with Conditional Access policy templates - Microsoft Entra | Microsoft Learn
So in essence we need them to disable the default setting and then enable what they need.
Option 1
The normal Accfin Cloud Server. The cost of this licence is included in pricing of Sky Software
Option 2
Accfin can provide the following services by providing you with your own virtual server.
AccfinSky Cloud Server
Shared Application Server Hosting
By running your Accfin Sky software solution on the above, Accfin Software will provide the following inclusive management services
- Hardware
- Memory
- Operating system
- Bandwidth
- Server Security
- Webserver
- Application Server
- Database Server
- Sky Software
- User management
- Backups
The cost for the above offering is R 1,800.00 per month exclusive of VAT
And is payable by means of a monthly debit order.
SKY TECHNICAL SPECS
Accfin Sky is a complete solution to the accounting and auditor back office and consists of separate but related modules
Viz
- Tax 2. Secretarial 3. Time 4. Billing
The development language utilised is Java and Javascript
Deployment Platforms
- On premise Server environment
- Dedicated Server, remotely hosted
- Shared remotely hosted Server
Server Requirements
- Servoy Application Server ( 6.0 )
- DBMS – PostgreSQL 9.2 ( or higher)
- Java 6 or higher
Hardware and Operating system Requirements
Windows
Quad Processor 3.5 GHz
500 GB Hard disk
32 GB Memory
Windows Server 2012
500Mb Free disk space
Linux
Intel Pentium III, IV, M, D 1Ghz or higher
1Gb RAM
300Mb Free disk space
OS X
Intel CPU 1Ghz or higher
1Gb RAM
300Mb Free disk space
Mac OS X 10.4 or higher
These requirements are the minimum requirements and performance is related to the number of simultaneous client/user access and type of client/user access
Access Requirements
The following ports need to be remotely accessible on the server by the client/user.
1. Port 8080 for the initial client installation.
2. Port 1099 for the communication between the client and the server.
3. Port 5432 for the DBMS access
4. Port 443 for connection to SARS Efiling
If the server is going to be accessed internally (on the same network) these port will not have to be opened, but if the server is to be accessed externally these port must be checked and opened if necessary.
Additionally to the above
Outgoing access must be available to the following
IP Address : 197.189.207.58 or sky.accfin.co.za
Port : 5432
The application can be accessed from the client side as either
- Web Client
Eg Internet Explorer, Chrome, Fire Fox
Access to the server as detailed above
- Smart Client
Java Ver 6 or 7
Hardware and software requirements as per server above
Access to the server if remotely accessed
A screen/monitor with a minimum resolution of 1280 x 1024 is recommended
Server Memory Calculation
Minimum Memory 4GB
General Server and Application Memory 1.5GB
For every Smart client 15MB
For every Web client 25MB
Eg On the minimum memory spec the optimal smart clients is 150
SKY INTERNET SPECIFICATIONS
INTERNET CONNECTION
Sufficient speed is dependent on the number of concurrent users (a good benchmark would be 2MB per user and then round it up)
Must be Unshaped, Unlimited and Unthrottled
Unshaped means that you must have equal upload and download and also that the “traffic” for the line must have no priority for any specific type of traffic. e.g. being higher priority for smtp or emails etc
Remember that you require both upload and download speeds to be sufficient as you will be doing both in the Sky applications.
Certain functions do utilise more downloads, i.e. reading / retrieving of data from a cloud server while others require both, like data entries which utilise uploads, that is writing /submitting data to the cloud server and this utilises the upload speeds and this then is also “shared” between all the users active at the same time.
Unlimited, is the amount of data traffic that is allowed during the course of the month. If it is limited, then speeds will slow down considerably when your threshold is reached.
Unthrottled is where even if the data is unlimited, when you reach a threshold of amount of data, the speed is then throttled / diminished as per fair use policy of your ISP.
Or when there are high volumes of data (this applies to your ISP as well, that is other users utilising your ISP at the same time) then the speeds are reduced to cater for this volume.
OFFICE 365 SECURITY
On Office 365 it has a blanket security setting called security defaults.
This sets the most common settings people would use and it enabled by default.
Multi factor authentication(MFA) being one of the settings.
See this link for more detailed explanation.
Providing a default level of security in Azure Active Directory - Microsoft Entra | Microsoft Learn
This however blocks Sky from working as well.
Microsoft allows you disable this blanket setting if you need a more granular control over you security settings.
You can disable this and then go and enable everything needed on a per need basis for example MFA.
This link gives more detail on how to do this.
Secure your resources with Conditional Access policy templates - Microsoft Entra | Microsoft Learn
So in essence we need them to disable the default setting and then enable what they need.
