Are you struggling with finding a suitable replacement for FRx or F9? Is reporting from MAS or Accpac painful, slow and ugly?
Why not use what every company already utilizes today – EXCEL
Join us for a one hour webinar on a BrainSell endorsed solution, BizNet.
Online – FreeWhen: Tuesday, November 1, 2011, 2-3 pm EST
Where: Online
Presenter: Denise Hutchison, BizNet Software
BizNet’s Excel Business Information Suite is the next generation reporting solution and was designed with the assistance of FRx professionals. BizNet’s Reporting solution is pre-built for Mas90/200/500 and Accpac.
BizNet:
• 100% Excel
• Fills Top 10 FRx Feature Gaps
• Real Time Reporting & Business Intelligence
• Drill to transaction detail
• Drag and Drop Report Creation
• Pre-built Connections, Content & Analysis
• Utilize Single Excel Template for Multiple Report Distribution
• Fully Deployed in Less Than a Day
• No additional Hardware
Sage has recently released their MAS 90/200 road map. Let’s cut to the chase… here are the highlights!
Credit card numbers will no longer be stored within MAS, they will be in the Sage Exchange Vault
PC Charge will continue to be supported, but you should start looking at alternatives, we suggest Sage Payment Solutions
In the first product update, v4.5, is out at the end of this month.
v4.5 will include a FREE user and server license of SageCRM 7.1, new reporting tree features, and enhancements to Sales Order, Payroll, Accounts Receivable and Purchase Order.
MAS 90 ONLINE will be released later this year. Start in the cloud for a monthly rate and move to on premise when your business grows.
Up until now, it was impossible for businesses to run Sage ERP applications like MAS 90 on a Macintosh computer. Thanks to AppEazy and its redesigned Mac client, they can.
Millions of Mac-based businesses are out there with limited options when it comes to ERP software. In the past three years alone, the number of worldwide Mac users has doubled to nearly 100 million, according to Forrester Research. As the ever-growing Mac population continues to climb across a variety of industries, it’s important to have the tools and resources necessary to accommodate both PC and Mac users alike.
With the recent redesign of AppEazy Connect for Mac OS X, Applianz is doing their part to help you reach out to your potential Mac-based customers. AppEazy opens up the door to an untapped potential customer base of new MAS 90, 200, 500 and AccPac ERP prospects for your business, meaning no more lost opportunities.
That’s right! Developer Faye Business Systems Group has come out with an integration between Sage MAS 90 or MAS 200 (Sage’s robust ERP system) and SugarCRM. It looks pretty straight forward.
The application synchronizes customers, inventory items, customer sales history, inventory sales history, quotes, and sales orders between SugarCRM and MAS 90 and MAS 200. MAS info shows up as a module in the Sugar Account Record. Very nice for selling and bill collecting!
Instant Trials of Sage MAS 90, MAS 500, ABRA HR, ACCPAC, MAS 90 EES and Intuit QuickBooks Now Accessible Via BrainSell Web Site.
If you’re having trouble deciding on the right accounting or HR management software, BrainSell just made your life a lot easier!
With just a few mouse clicks, you can now try Sage Accpac, MAS 90, MAS 500 and Intuit QuickBooks ERP/accounting software for free, on BrainSell’s website. If you are in the market for HR management software, we’ve also got you covered with a free trial of Abra HRMS.
Whether you are looking to change software products completely, or try out the competition, we are here to help.
Sage MAS Intelligence is the Sage product that will replace FRx in MAS 90, MAS 200 and MAS 500. In fact, MAS Intelligence is available NOW! Be prepared to install MAS Intelligence. Know what it does and how to deploy it. BrainSell engineer Christianna Dorsey will demonstrate MAS Intelligence live and answer your questions!
Amherst accountant James Kincaid prepares more financial statements for small-business clients now than he did two years ago.
The uptick, he says, stems from stricter lending practices. Many banks and other financial institutions want details – lots of them – before agreeing to extend financing packages to small businesses.
“It means more hours and more work, which frankly for accountants isn’t a bad thing,” said Kincaid, partner at Lougen Valenti Bookbinder & Weintraub LLP. “But it’s a huge effort for business owners.”
Banks that once accepted tax returns as proof of companies’ stability may now require full-blown financial statements, which means business owners must provide key details to accountants who, in turn, create the statements.
James Segarra, managing partner at Tronconi Segarra & Associates LLP, said he views the additional work as “helping clients become better prepared to borrow money” needed to run businesses.
“Lines (of credit) aren’t being pulled, but banks do want to see more information,” he said. “It’s a totally different system of keeping records. I don’t fault the banks, but these can be onerous things to comply with.”
Our latest guest blogger is Kate DeSantis, Marketing Director at Scanco LLC (a barcoding company that we dig). Scanco meets the needs of thousands of distribution and manufacturing operations with an extensive line of warehouse management solutions designed to integrate with Sage Software’s MAS 90/MAS 200 and MAS 500 ERP. Their products provide the functionality to perform RFID integration, inventory management, work order processing, remote sales and barcode printing. Visit www.scanco.com
Starting off on the right foot…
When companies contact us about automating their distribution processes, they have great ideas about handhelds and software but they are always unsure about how to start labeling their products. It’s understandable because there are LOTS of options. Here’s a quick breakdown of three scenarios and the best fit option for each:
1. Barcodes do not exist anywhere on my inventory.
First, don’t worry. We’ll get your products labeled in no time! The easiest way to get started is to label your products as they are received. You can generate those labels from a handheld or from the desktop to a thermal printer using a product called LabelXpert Designer. Any field that exists in MAS 90/MAS 200 or MAS 500 can be displayed on the label and those label designs are stored as templates. A handheld or desktop user can print labels for all items received or one at a time (perfect for companies with serialized or lotted inventory). The great thing about LabelXpert is that it reads data straight from your MAS system and does not rely on manual data entry. Once it’s labeled, you can trust that it is correct and scan away!
2. Most of my products are barcoded by the manufacturer but I have a few product lines that need some stripes.
You have two options for this particular scenario:
Filippo Passerini knows that a customer who likes to lather up with Pantene shampoo is probably in the market for Olay moisturizer products too — and as Chief Information Officer (CIO) at Procter & Gamble, a growing part of his job is making sure that the company makes both sales.
“We connect the dots with the information we have,” he says.
After a year of hunkering down and slashing costs, many corporations are growing again — and technology is leading the way. A recent Gartner survey found revenue growth trumped cost cuts as CIO’s’ top priority for 2010.
Data mining is the process of extracting patterns from data.
Humans have been “manually” extracting patterns from data for centuries, but the increasing volume of data in modern times has called for more automated approaches.
“Pattern mining” is a data mining technique that involves finding existing patterns in data. In this context patterns often means association rules. The original motivation for searching association rules came from the desire to analyze supermarket transaction data, that is, to examine customer behavior in terms of the purchased products. For example, associations rule “beer ⇒ chips (80%)” states that four out of five customers that bought beer also bought chips.
Data mining in ERP applications can contribute significantly to the bottom line. Rather than randomly contacting a prospect or customer through a call center or sending mail, a company can concentrate its efforts on prospects that are predicted to have a high likelihood of responding to an offer.
Instead of sending an offer to all people, a company may only want to send offers to customers that will likely take the offer. It may also want to determine which customers are going to be profitable over a window of time and only send the offers to those that are likely to be profitable.
Is your ERP and CRM software helping grow your revenue and profit? Does your staff know how to data mine the tons of the historical customer data you have been accumulating over the years? Do you see your accounting staff and software as just an Expense Center rather than a Revenue Growth Center?
Sage MAS Intelligence is the Sage product that will replace FRx in MAS 90, MAS 200 and MAS 500. In the short term, customers will have the ability to use both FRx and Sage MAS Intelligence. While they have some of the same basic reporting features, there are many advantages of using Sage MAS Intelligence.
Sage MAS Intelligence empowers managers to quickly and easily obtain operations and strategic planning information from their Sage MAS system. Based on the familiar Microsoft Excel application, Sage MAS Intelligence effortlessly creates reports and analyzes data that is vital to growth and profitability. Managers can spend more time focusing on information analysis and interpretation and less time pulling the data together.
Sage will discontinue shipping FRx with new license sales by the end of 2010, and will no longer include FRx in the next release of Sage MAS 90 and 200 (4.5) and Sage MAS 500 (v7.4). Sage will continue support of FRx as part of previous Sage MAS releases.
New and current Sage MAS 90 and 200 customers will receive a single user Report Manager license for 4.4 as an on-plan benefit. New and current Sage MAS 500 customers will receive four single user Report Manager license for 7.3 as an on-plan benefit.
Additional promotional offers may also be made available for purchase of additional user licenses, and connector modules. Details will be provided soon.
Sage MAS Intelligence will be available for customers on
• Sage MAS 90 and 200 v4.4
• Sage MAS 90 and 200 Extended Enterprise Suite 1.4
• Sage MAS 500 v7.3
The “free” version provides basic functionality.
Each client will get a one User License for the Sage MAS Intelligence Report Manager, which allows a user to:
• Author new reports (organizing, creating, editing), as well as filter and aggregate data based on existing data containers.
• Run, edit and clone the standard report templates for management (financial reports, dashboards, financial trend analysis), as well as general ledger, sales, purchases, and inventory transactional reports
• Set permissions/security on all reports.
• Connect to one ERP company database at a time (if running two or more companies, user can redirect to relevant company connection)
Please contact me if you want further information:
Kevin Cook, Senior VP of ERP & Open Source, BrainSell
866-356-2654 x204
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