Sage ERP - MAS90: Business Intelligence
Business Intelligence is the "Thing" in today's business environment. It is not just enough to enter / capture data from business operations or from other internal and external sources. It is more on how you use that information in a timely manner in an understandable layout that would assist you in making RIGHT business decisions in the first place
Custom Office
To stay competitive, you need your accounting software and business productivity software to work together and offer indispensable functions like graphical reporting, integration, customization, and drill-down functionality. The Custom Office module for Sage MAS 90 and Sage MAS 200 ERP systems provides the solution with a suite of tools composed of Customizer, and the MS Office Link, which integrate with the Microsoft Office suite.
The MS Office Link allows you to easily create letters or messages to individual customers or vendors. You can attach documents (such as scanned-in images) to specific records in the product’s data files (for example, a photograph to an inventory item or an invoice to the invoice record in Accounts Payable history). Customizer provides user-defined fields (UDFs) that you can easily implement without any special programming skills.
Improve productivity throughout your company with an essential suite of business applications—Sage MAS 90 and 200 Custom Office. Custom Office enables you to make use of the unique business information in your application data files and greatly simplifies the process of creating custom communications to customers and vendors.Business Alerts
Is your business looking for a more efficient way to monitor the pulse of your company? Meet Business Alerts Professional, an impressive module designed to keep you and your personnel “in the know.” This innovative product utilizes your e-mail system to notify you whenever something significant happens in your Sage MAS 90 or Sage MAS 200 ERP system. The notifications that you choose to generate can be selected from a series of sample alert,s which can quickly be tailored to suit your specific needs. Or you may choose to create custom alerts based on your company’s unique criteria.
Visual Integrator
Importing and exporting data from Visual Integrator is a simple process. The power of Visual Integrator, however, lies in the additional integration commands that are available. For example, Visual Integrator jobs can be scheduled to run at prescribed intervals of any length. If you need to keep your Sage MAS 90 or 200 customer masterfile synchronized with a prospect database, you can set the import to run automatically every day, every hour, or even every minute. Imports can be chained together so that an invoice import automatically follows a customer import. You can even instruct the program to run a script file automatically upon successful completion of an import.
If you use Sage MAS 90 or 200, Visual Integrator is what you need to tie all your business software into one seamless application.FRx Financial Reporter
With FRx Desktop, the ability to specify row and column formats independently maximizes the flexibility of report formats. Combine formats with custom reporting trees that match your company’s chart of accounts structure to report on specific cost centers. Using a special tool known as the “Cleaver,” you can restructure your cost centers, or carve out new account segments not possible in your standard general ledger. After creating a report, you can print it, export it to an Excel worksheet, drill down to examine the transaction details, or distribute it by e-mail. Plus, FRx Desktop includes links that allow you to include external spreadsheet data in reports. You can also generate multi-company consolidation reports.
Crystal Reports
Create and customize presentation-quality reports from your Sage MAS 90 or Sage MAS 200 ERP systems data with Crystal Decisions software. Crystal Reports is a powerful report writer that allows you to create meaningful reports quickly and easily. You can use sample reports straight out of the box (see the column at left for a listing of the 27 report templates included). Or, modify reports to suit your needs, then save and run them anytime.
Take control over the look of your documents by selecting font type, size, and color. Enhance the layout by applying lines, borders, and shading. Further enrich your reports with embedded pictures, diagrams, and logos. Use tables, cross-tabulations, or one of 12 graph styles to communicate your financial information. You can even create reports with drill-down capabilities simply by selecting that option for the detail section of a report.Business Insights Explorer
Business Insights Explorer provides you with a better way to access and understand your data— offering you a powerful, intuitive reporting tool —and you don’t have to be a programmer to use it! First-time users can start right away. Even more important, Business Insights Explorer is great for analyzing “what-if” scenarios that can keep you awake at night. Who are the top customers for each of your salespeople? What products do they buy? How many new customers did you gain last month? And, because of the depth of functionality, Business Insights Explorer will continue to grow with you and your business far into the future.
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