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

• Hardware
• Memory
• Operating system
• Bandwidth
• Server Security
• Webserver
• Application Server
• Database Server
• Sky Software
• User management
• Backups

Our shared server offering is hosted by Hetzner name changed recently to  XNELO
 
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

1. Tax 2. Secretarial 3. Time 4. Billing

The solution is developed on the Servoy development platform, which is a Java based development environment.
The development language utilised is Java and Javascript
Deployment Platforms

1. On premise Server environment
2. Dedicated Server, remotely hosted
3. Shared remotely hosted Server

 
Server Requirements

1. Servoy Application Server ( 6.0 )
2. DBMS – PostgreSQL 9.2 ( or higher)
3. Java 6 or higher

The above require the following
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

1. Web Client

Requirements are an internet browser
Eg Internet Explorer, Chrome, Fire Fox
Access to the server as detailed above

1. Smart Client

Requirements on Client Side
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