Showing posts with label Sage Business Intelligence. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Sage Business Intelligence. Show all posts

Thursday, 6 May 2010

Upgrading from Sage Line 50 to Sage 200

Many businesses currently using Sage Line 50 are experiencing growth; this combined with them becoming more dynamic leads to strain on their software.

The Sage suite incorporates a next generation accounts package within a wider suite of business management software; integrating information from finance, distribution, manufacturing, marketing, service operations and more.

The logical benefits of upgrading to Sage 200 are described below by Pythagoras, a Sage business partner;

The look and feel

Sage 200 offers an easier user experience and Windows functionality. Sage 200 v2010 due out this summer will be fully compatible with Windows 7.

Nominal drill downs

Sage 200 offers powerful downs into the nominal, and drill across into the relevant areas.

Excel Links

Sage 200 offers seamless Microsoft Excel integration; furthermore, users without a Sage licence can access the Business Intelligence (BI) within Excel.

Period Accounting

Sage 200 offers up to 20 accounting periods with a choice as to whether its run as open, closed or a mixture.

Foreign Currency

Sage 200 has the ability to create spot and period exchange rates.
Reporting
The Sage 200 report designer offers a more intuitive, user friendly report design tool.

Database


Sage 200 adopts an industry standard MS SQL database, making it easier to connect to other applications / software and connect to the outside world.

Cost Centre / Divisional Reporting

A strength of Sage 200 is the ability to analyse performance of cost centres across your business where analysis of budgets versus targets can be viewed graphically.

Paperless Office


Sage 200 encourages paperless integration with PDF invoices and statements available to send and receive electronically as opposed to paper; increasing productivity.

Workspaces

Gathers information from across the Sage 200 suite, allowing users to access and view data important to them via one customisable screen rather than numerous screens and programmes. The workspace designer allows further customisation and enhanced relevancy.

Business Intelligence

Sage 200 BI enables you to analyse data trends and data comparison thanks to its seamless integration with Microsoft Excel. Furthermore, users without individual Sage 200 licences can access and utilise BI in Excel.

Pythagoras communications has enviable experience in deploying, creating and understanding your individual Sage 200 needs. More than 300 Sage customers nationwide have discovered how the Pythagoras approach adds value to their business. These are drawn from a diverse range of sectors and markets and we have specialist teams with specific expertise in each. Pythagoras has an enviable combination of extensive, multi-sector experience and a reputation for cutting edge technical development and innovation.

Wednesday, 10 March 2010

The benefits of Sage 200 Business Intelligence

Sage 200 Business Intelligence is best utilised looking into past trends; the more data which is used in BI the better it will operate and the more accurate the results will be. Business Intelligence tool is not best used to see how much your customers owe at present and balances but more how much a person has paid over time, and any trends or irregularities in their long term payment structure.

Furthermore data from Sage 200 Business Intelligence allows the user to bring through data seamlessly in to Excel; individual vertical cubes allow data comparison against a number of variables such as year to date (ytd), past few years, individual product lines and stores to name a few. Another added advantage Sage 200 BI in Excel brings is that users without Sage licences can utilise BI in Excel; the data can then be shared internally via methods such as email and share point.

Benefits offered by Sage 20 BI:

• Make faster, more informed and confident decisions
• Easy and fast deployment
• Easy to understand and use
• Reporting and analytics within the comfort of Microsoft® Excel
• Pre-defined reports out-of-the-box
• Dynamic Charts

Work spaces within Sage 200 are customisable spaces within the screen which can meet the user’s individual needs and requirements at a glance from data which is gathered from a number of sources. Furthermore on top of the ten out of the box workspaces available within the Sage 200 package Pythagoras has successfully developed two additional work spaces to enhance the productivity; the Outstanding Works Order workspace and the Stock profitability workspace.

Overall, Sage 200 workspaces deliver maximum value for the user at minimum effort.