The existing PPSR in New Zealand is being replaced with a new system, the rPPSR (Replacement PPSR), and is due to go live on 2nd July 2018.

This move is being driven by the Ministry of Business Innovation and Enterprise (MBIE) and is designed to replace the reliable but aging platform that, whilst world leading when it was released in 2002, has increased risks and costs associated with ageing technology.

Here, at Intersoft Systems, we have been working towards this change for the last 12 months, and are committed to developing a state of the art interface to the rPPSR.

In this first Blog article, we will introduce some of the changes made to the rPPSR.

Certain forms within finPOWER Connect Cloud are fixed, e.g., the Client Log form.

Others forms, however, are implemented as system-supplied HTML Widgets and can be substituted by custom HTML Widgets, thereby allowing an unprecedented level of customisation.

Three new forms are the Account Credit Limit Change, Account Monitor Category Change and Account Statement Change wizards.

Management Reports are available to finPOWER Connect Cloud in the form of HTML Widgets and can be viewed in the form of interactive Dashboards.

Several of these reports are supplied with finPOWER Connect and these can be used as-is or as a starting point for creating your own, customised, reports.

The finPOWER Connect Cloud theme can now be customised via a Script.

This allows different colours and/ or logos to be defined based on the signed in User, e.g., a Dealer or Broker-based theme.

Controls for HTML Widgets are now provided to make creating HTML Widgets easier and to provide functionality required to implement customisable forms in finPOWER Connect Cloud.

Records, such as Accounts and Clients, can be opened from many sources, e.g., via a Search, or a hyperlink on a summary page.

The "Records" view is where records are displayed and, as such, is where users will likely spend the majority of their time in finPOWER Connect Cloud.

The ability to run reports and export report data has been added to finPOWER Connect Cloud, our Web-based version of finPOWER Connect.

The ability to view and manage tasks has been added to finPOWER Connect Cloud, our Web-based version of finPOWER Connect.

We are always looking at ways to enhance the finPOWER Connect Cloud user interface to provide the best possible experience on both desktop computers and mobile devices.

finPOWER Connect Cloud is the Web-based version of finPOWER Connect.

It exited beta at the beginning of March 2017.