It's worth a million
Updated February 13, 2017

It's worth a million

Zimran Azim | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 7 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User

Overall Satisfaction with Abila MIP Fund Accounting

It's currently being used across whole organization. It is being used in accounts and the HR office. It is hooked up with Microix WorkFlow modules. The application is the key to resolve the reconciliation issues.
  • Assets and Depreciation
  • Payable Reporting
  • Posting to Microix
  • Scheduling
  • Payable emails
  • PF emails Stubs
  • Imports in Bulks
  • It meets our requirements not all of them but we are very comfortable with it.
We are also a non profit organization at Forman Christian College and we are already able to benefit from this.
JMT Consulting Group, Inc.- NY Area - This has a great impact on our organization, whenever we run into any issue we log our case with JMT and they respond us the appropriate solution; MIP Support is our last resort if the problem is not that critical. This has been a great benefit to our organization and this MIP Partner is a good initiative.
It's a complete solution. Previously, my organization was using some payable software with another hookup software from a third party but it had a lot of glitches; after that i don't even imagine to have a software with no support on ground and using other software hookups for payable and asset management.
MIP is the most befitting accounts receivables and Payable application, moreover it has the HR and EWS module which are for the enterprise users; It is the interactive application where a employee can see their salary details, notification enter timesheets; it has now updated security menu. The best part is that you can describe your need and if it meets other user requirements than MIP can enhance the functionality for you.

MIP Fund Accounting Feature Ratings

Using Abila MIP Fund Accounting

70 - - Accounts department actually enter all the payables, checks, and post receivables from Empower student information system to MIP.
- Human Resources creates the salaries on MIP and enters the Adjustments every fortnight after the verification of Accounts.
- Purchase Department verify the asset management and posting from Microix to MIP.
2 - Technical, SQL, Server Side
  • Payable
  • Accounting
  • Assets
  • Reconciliation
  • Robust analytics tools and role-based dashboards helps us harness important data from the database, and find, report, and track data that is most important to each audience.
  • With secure, open APIs, We can bypass integration headaches and focus on growing their organization by integrating with other key applications that meet their needs.
  • MIP Advance provides us integration with MIP Elevate, MIP Fundraising 50, and MIP Fundraising and also with other fundraising products offered by companies that believe in the power of open integration.
  • Get it hooked up with our receivable system and get it posted.
  • We have a receivable system and we want it to interface.
  • We also have a check in system which we would like to integrate with time sheets.
This system is amazing and if one like to work with any automated system it is the perfect to work with it.

Evaluating Abila MIP and Competitors

Yes - In 2003, Peach Tree - not a complete ERP.
  • Product Features
  • Product Usability
  • Prior Experience with the Product
Product Usability matters a lot as well as extraction of reports from the system.
Well, I would require the accounts department to enlist their complete requirements and have them analyse the application rather executive body as the direct users need to analyse the application.

Abila MIP Implementation

Without support you are dead in case you need any
Change management was a major issue with the implementation - That it support almost a lot of our models
  • Some times errors of SQL
  • Application Launch
  • Share Permissions

Abila MIP Training

  • Online training
  • In-person training
  • Self-taught
In person training by the consulting groups is great thing we had.
It was pretty clear for how to use it and how to set it up for other modules. It gave us insight about the way it's modeled and how we can use it.
It is pretty much self explanatory. If you are acquainted with accountancy terms and have the foundation knowledge you can pretty much do a lot of things.

Configuring Abila MIP

It is too limited, all the configurations should be included in the setup; most of the things in the configuration are not supported by them.
They should put in all the configuration while setting it up, so that administrator already knows what to do.
No - we have not done any customization to the interface
No - we have not done any custom code

Abila MIP Support

The late responses
ProsCons
Good followup
Knowledgeable team
Kept well informed
Need to explain problems multiple times
No - We are a non profit organization, most of the times we try to resolve the issues ourselves.
No they always charge for extra support or for anything they call exceptional support.

Using Abila MIP

Difficult for custom reporting and interfacing.
ProsCons
Like to use
Relatively simple
Easy to use
Technical support not required
Well integrated
Quick to learn
Feel confident using
Cumbersome
  • Extraction of report
  • Transfers
  • View Records
  • Imports
  • Bridging third party application
  • Creating reports from Other tools

Abila MIP Reliability

Although there are a lot of options to make it larger, if you are using it on a wide scale with all the modules; you will definitely will see the difference.
We are self hosted and it's available all the time and have not found any issues yet.
Yes it is a well designed and quick responding application. Reports come in almost a reasonable time and at least if a user has to wait, it shows progress bars.

Integrating Abila MIP

MIP provide pretty good interfacing for integration.
  • Empower sis
Still in the process of integration of it.
  • Empower and Microix
Yes the Microix Workflow modules supports this.
  • File import/export
  • Single Signon
  • API (e.g. SOAP or REST)
They shall provide open source scripting to get other system attached with the tables.

Relationship with Abila

Things were quite clear when we worked with the vendors and they assisted a lot in setting up processes.
After sales, MIP and JMT consulting constantly support us and keep us up to date for enhancement.
Self Hosting and Keeping up security of transactions very well.
Security Webinar should be created and posted for administrators for better reviews in reporting.

Upgrading Abila MIP

Yes - Yes we have updated to the latest version of MIP 2017.1.1 and this system was a smooth transition from 2016.1.2 to the latest release and it has also got the fixes which MIP 2017.1 version had and later those were resolved in the version which was rigorously tested with respect to fast upgrade and minimum glitches.
  • Reporting Capabilities across MIP to improve the ability to track report.
  • Enhanced Key Accounts Payable workflows
  • New Administration options supporting audit trails.
  • Integration with REST BASED API for TIME SHEETS
  • Payable Salary Slip Email directly from the MIP System