Business Intelligence Tools for Sage MAS 90

Business intelligence tools provided by Bennett/Porter - serving clients throughout the Portland Oregon metropolitan areas and all of Oregon and Washington state.

Business Alerts

Business Alerts is an impressive add-on module, which sends e-mail notifications to you and your specified personnel when something significant happens in your business. Solving problems before they start can satisfy your customers far more consistently. Integrated into critical modules, Business Alerts shifts your focus using early warning signals that announce critical events in your Sage MAS 90 or Sage MAS 200 system, including credit holds, inventory thresholds, priority client transactions, urgency levels and more.

Business Insights Dashboard

Business Insights Dashboard, which comes standard with any new Sage MAS 90 or Sage MAS 200 system, is the ideal solution for busy managers, executives and business owners who need quick access to key business information in an easy-to-read format. Designed to present easily accessible information in a high-level, graphical layout, The goal was to provide the data necessary to make well-informed, business-critical decisions to make your firm more competitive. The application is customizable and allows you to pick what information is the most important to your operation. With a multitude of insightful reports, extensive drill-down capabilities and an automatic data refreshing feature, Business Insights Dashboard makes staying informed easy.

Sage Abra Alerts

Sage Abra Alerts is an impressive module that automatically monitors your database and proactively distributes information to your HR and payroll personnel, managers, and employees via your existing e-mail system. Because Sage Abra Alerts is fully integrated with Sage Abra HRMS, the information you enter automatically triggers messages and reports. Sage Abra Alerts sends notices about annual reviews, enrollment in required training courses, and even personalized messages for applicants who e-mail resumes or it can be used to welcome new employees.

Crystal Reports

Crystal Reports is a powerful report writer that creates meaningful, real-time reports quickly and easily. Out-of-the-box reports are available along with the ability to modify them to suit your business needs. Wizards can walk you through the necessary steps to modify a report with ease. If you would like to create a report from scratch, more wizards (called Experts) guide you through the process from start to finish. Your reports can run at pre-determined times, even unattended. Using the open database connectivity (ODBC) driver, Crystal Reports has direct access to Sage MAS 90 and Sage MAS 200 data. The Crystal Reports design engine is also fully integrated into Sage MAS 90 and Sage MAS 200 form printing.

FRx Desktop

This version of FRx comes bundled with the Sage MAS 90 and Sage MAS 200 General Ledger modules, and is a full-featured, graphical reporting tool. The ability to specify row and column formats independently maximizes the flexibility of report formats. After creating a report, you can print it, export it to an Excel worksheet, drill down to examine details or distribute it via e-mail. Combine the report formats with a custom-reporting tree that matches your company's chart of accounts structure, and you can create customized reports that detail almost any aspect of your business. FRx Desktop also provides multi-company consolidation and robust security.

F9

This optional module uses Dynamic Data Exchange (DDE) technology to deliver data from your Sage MAS 90 and Sage MAS 200 General Ledger module to a spreadsheet document, such as Lotus 1-2-3 or Microsoft Excel. The data migration is easy due to an automatic link to your General Ledger using the hotlink feature in your spreadsheet, or hotlink cells in your spreadsheet that tie into any data item in General Ledger. This linkage provides instant, real-time financial information in your spreadsheet and saves time by eliminating the rekeying of data into your spreadsheet.

Custom Office

The Custom Office module provides a suite of tools (Visual PostMaster, Customizer and MS Office Link) that integrate your Sage MAS 90 or Sage MAS 200 system with Microsoft Office. Customizer allows you to modify application screens to work the way you run your business, including the ability to add user-defined fields, all without programming. Visual Postmaster is a wizard-driven tool that creates mail merges in a snap using Sage MAS 90 or Sage MAS 200 data and/or custom databases for your mailing. MS Office Link can automatically merge accounting information in Sage MAS 90 or Sage MAS 200 with Microsoft Word, Excel or Exchange software to quickly create custom documents, messages and attachments to send to individual customers or vendors.

Visual Integrator

In the past, businesses withstood standalone applications and performed software "workarounds" to achieve integrated reporting. Today, it's expected that these products work together. Using open database connectivity (ODBC), Visual Integrator provides fully automated data transfer between Sage MAS 90 or Sage MAS 200 and other business applications. If you regularly import data from a custom or vertical software package, you'll find you can use Visual Integrator to make the integration virtually seamless.