Future
ERETES is a system that is continuously updated with the integration of new features.
Indeed, the ERETES steering committee is careful to the durability of the application, to its maintainability and to its constant improvement.
A project to improve the software both technically and ergonomically is underway. Following a user needs survey (2017) and a feasibility study (2018), specifications have been drawn up for three new functionalities:
- a tool for semi-automatic balancing SUBs (using the indices loaded into the database);
- a new worktable to compile balance sheets;
- a tool for (simple) backcasting.
The development phase, financed by Eurostat via the Pan-African Statistics 2 programme, is currently underway.
Before being widely distributed, the new version of ERETES will be tested by a number of pilot countries. The final version will be available in two new languages: Portuguese and Arabic, on top of French, English and Spanish.