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Sage MAS 500 Business Intelligence

Submitted by logden on Sun, 08/09/2009 - 07:41
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MAS 500 Business Intelligence

Sage Software specializes in insightful financial accounting software and business management solutions to allow mid-sized firms to analyze and respond to business trends, maximize efficiency, and increase profits.
 
Click on the modules below for more information:

Modules

Submitted by kcordes on Tue, 09/01/2009 - 09:50

Alerts

Sage MAS 500 ERP Alerts is an impressive data monitoring module designed to keep you and your personnel “in the know.” The notifications that you choose to send can be selected from a series of predefined alerts, which can be quickly tailored to suit your specific needs. Alerts are critical for distributors and manufacturers who need to manage inventory levels and production costs.

Key Functionality:

  • Receive alerts when a customer exceeds a credit limit by a specified dollar amount or designated percentage
  • Receive alerts when a discount is going to expire in a selected number of days
  • Receive alerts when back-ordered inventory items were received at a defined warehouse
  • Receive alerts when machines, work centers, or tools are coming due for maintenance inspections
  • Receive alerts when work orders are running over or under cost, quantity, production time, or scrap

 

For more information, download the Alerts PDF.

Submitted by kcordes on Tue, 09/01/2009 - 10:00

Crystal Reports®

Crystal Reports® software is an intuitive reporting solution that helps you create flexible, feature-rich, and dependable reports that can be integrated into both thick-client and thin-client applications.

Key Functionality: 

  • Report design – Create highly formatted, interactive, and professional-looking reports using a complete set of layout tools and design controls
  • Application development – Leverage cross-platform support for both Java and .NET, allowing developers to focus on application business logic rather than tedious, time-intensive coding
  • Report delivery – Export reports to popular formats, such as Adobe PDF, Microsoft Office, and RTF

 

 

 

Submitted by kcordes on Tue, 09/01/2009 - 09:52

Business Insights Analyzer

The Sage MAS 500 ERP Business Insights Analyzer can help you make better business decisions by providing you with insights into your business data. Information is provided in a logical grid format with powerful filtering, grouping, and sorting capabilities that let you organize the data in the way most appr

opriate to the task at hand.

Key Functionality:

  • Real-time data is displayed in an interactive grid format with powerful filtering, sorting, and grouping capabilities. Columns of data may be rearranged, and calculations such as sum and average can be made
  • Create and save multiple settings of various analyses fur future reference. New SQL views can be created and easily hooked into Business Insights Analyzer
  • Views include Budget Analysis, Sales History, Purchase History, Project Profitability, Production Analysis, Cash Account History, Customer Sales History, Salesperson History, Vendor History, Inventory History ,Inventory Transaction History and Resource Utilization

 

For more information, download the Business Insights Analyzer PDF.

Submitted by kcordes on Tue, 09/01/2009 - 10:01

KnowledgeSync

Sage KnowledgeSync combines Alerts and Workflow to give you a Business Activity Monitoring (BAM) solution. With KnowledgeSync, you can monitor your Sage applications (and optionally, incoming email) for business conditions that are important to your organization. Once these conditions are met, KnowledgeSync responds by sending Alerts, by generating and delivering relevant Forms, Documents, and Reports, and by executing Workflow to add or update your applications where needed.

 

Key Functionality:

  • Synchronize data between multiple business applications & identify inconsistencies between databases
  • Be alerted – and trigger automatic corrections – when potential problems appear in your Windows operating systems
  • Monitor activity on your website and autoprocess information requests and/or questions from prospects or clients
  • Supports Microsoft Exchange (Outlook) email, Internet (SMTP), and Lotus Notes Mail for both alerts and monitoring incoming email messages
  • Alert recipients can receive information via any combination of email, fax, pager (including SMS paging), screen pop, FTP (for document & report delivery), and web browser.
Submitted by kcordes on Tue, 09/01/2009 - 09:53

Business Insights Dashboard

The Business Insights Dashboard module keeps you in charge of your business by channeling all the information you need into one convenient and powerful dashboard. Business Insights Dashboard provides an unsurpassed level of knowledge management that consolidates critical personal, corporate, and external information and enables single-click access to analytical and collaborative tools.

Key Functionality:

  • Define and track key performance indicators (KPIs) for your business
  • Full access to Business Insights Explorer Views for ad-hoc inquiry and transaction drill-down
  • Business Insights Dashboard provides anytime, anywhere access through the Internet

 

For more information, download the Business Insights Dashboard PDF.

Submitted by kcordes on Tue, 09/01/2009 - 10:03

Office

The Sage MAS 500 Office module helps you use the power of automation to build stronger, more lasting customer relationships through enhanced communications. You can save time while boosting productivity as you create a wide range of highly customized documents, including business letters, e-mails, or spreadsheets, without ever leaving Sage MAS 500.

Key Functionality:

  • Create templates using a process as simple as dragging and dropping fields into your Word documents or export directly to Excel spreadsheets for formatting
  • Attach any desktop file, including Word documents, Excel spreadsheets, scanned images, photos, drawings, notes, voice, and multimedia files, to any Sage MAS 500 masterfile or transaction record
  • Attach any desktop file, including Word documents, Excel spreadsheets, scanned images, photos, drawings, notes, voice, and multimedia files, to any Sage MAS 500 masterfile or transaction record
  • Associate, or attach, a scanned image of a signed contract to a vendor record, or an image of an invoice to a customer record

 

For more information, download the Office PDF.

Submitted by kcordes on Tue, 09/01/2009 - 09:59

Business Insights Explorer

Business Insights Explorer is one of the most convenient way to navigate your business. It brings ad hoc inquiry, drill-down, and drill-around analysis up to a whole new level. This easy-to-use inquiry and analysis application optimizes your daily decision-making tasks in the most critical areas of your business.

Key Functionality:

  • Save views containing customized preferences and pre-defined filters for future use and navigation
  • Enable a wide range of sorting, grouping, and reorganizing functionality with customization and personalization features
  • Quickly assess the state of your business, monitor a new product’s acceptance rate, or the impact that a competitor’s promo is having on your sales
  • Task Management options provide an easy way for you to quickly access key tasks for the displayed view, including customer information update and order creation capabilities

 

For more information, download the Business Insights Explorer PDF.