Sage MAS 90's primary financial report writer was FRx, published by Microsoft.  A few years ago, Microsoft announced that it was discontinuing development and support of this product as of December 31, 2010.  Sage and other financial software companies were forced to look for a replacement product.

After an extensive review of options, Sage announced that the solution developed by Alchemex, an Austrialian company would be the new financial reporting solution.  This product has been branded Sage MAS Intelligence.

Sage MAS Intelligence offers much much more than FRx and F9.

Sage MAS Intelligence reports on data from all modules, not just general ledger.  Dashboards and other quick access reports can be designed/maintained easily in Sage MAS Intelligence.

If you'd like to attend a FREE information webinar on Sage MAS Intelligence, please click on this link to the registration page.  The one hour FREE information webinar will be hosted by one of the solution consultants from Sage.

Sign up now.

Session will be held on Monday, November 22, at 11am.  

If you own FRx (and most of you own this as part of your Sage MAS 90 software purchase), then you are entitled to a free license of Sage MAS Intelligence.  It's already yours; why not see what it's all about!

F9 is still a valid reporting option.  If you're interested in learning more about F9, v5, be sure to respond to our Training and Information Session survey -- click here.

  

From time to time, clients ask us 'how can we do this in MAS'?  Here is a quick summary of a solution we recently implemented at a client site:

Problem:
The client is implementing a purchase order approval system.  We need to find a way to manage and track approvals through Sage MAS 90.

Solution:

• Using Custom Office, fields were created on the Purchase Order Entry screen to track approvals
• Using Custom Office, a new table was added which indicated the department managers who need to approve the POs and what their threshold was
• Using Custom Office, a script was activated that populated the list of who needs to approve the purchase order, based on department and amount threshold
• Using Business Alerts, managers were notified that a purchase order required their approval
• Using Crystal Reports, the PO form was modified so that the words "Not Approved" would print on the PO form.  These words would not print if all the necessary approvals were entered.
• Using Paperless Office, the PO form was emailed to the supplier.

This solution provides a good example of how asking the question, How can we do this in MAS, can result in a fully integrated solution.

 

The solution also demonstrates how 4 different software products/features can work together.

 

If you regularly work on something that takes a long time to do and you think that an integrated solution might be available, please click here to start an email to ask us how.