Insights

Sage MAS 500
Business Insights

Sage Software specializes in bringing robust, insightful accounting and business management solutions to mid-sized firms. A good business system will capture data but a Sage business system provides tools to analyze that data so you can react to business trends, maximize efficiency, and increase profits.

Alerts
Sage MAS 500 Alerts is a module that sends e-mail notifications to you and your specified personnel when a specific situation happens in your business, such as credit holds, inventory thresholds, priority client transactions, and more. Templates are provided for many areas of Sage MAS 500, and new templates can be defined for almost any scenario. These scenarios, known as "key performance indicators" (KPIs), can be defined according to the needs of your particular industry, and thereby allow you to shift your management focus from reactive to proactive--improving customer satisfaction at the same time.

Business Insights Analyzer
In today's competitive marketplace, successful companies must minimize their risks and make better business decisions faster than ever before. The ability to quickly access critical business intelligence and analyze it for strategic decision making can make the difference between thriving and merely surviving. Sage MAS 500 Business Insights Analyzer can help you make better business decisions by providing you with insights into your business data.

eExecutive
Sage MAS 500 eExecutive is a Web-based module that offers busy executives a customizable, real-time overview of vital business operations. Using the data available in Sage MAS 500, your firm's senior staff can make better business-critical decisions with up-to-the-minute information. This snapshot display, based on Microsoft's Digital Dashboard technology, can incorporate other applications into eExecutive, like e-mail, calendar and data from other Web sites.

Crystal Reports
Crystal Reports is a powerful report writer that is used throughout Sage MAS 500 for formatting and printing reports. The core reporting functionality for each module of Sage MAS 500 includes a wide variety of standard reports. You can customize each report with specific option choices, sort preferences and selection criteria. By leveraging the power of SQL Server, reports are tuned for high performance - even when data volume is significant. Reports can be output to paper or to a Web page at your discretion.

Web Reports
Most Sage MAS 500 reports can be generated and viewed through Microsoft Internet Explorer with the Sage MAS 500 Web Reports module. These reports are created with the same high level of security as with the standard output of any Sage MAS 500 module that offers reporting.

Office Integration
Sage MAS 500's Office module helps you use the power of automation to build stronger, more lasting customer relationships through enhanced communications. With Sage MAS 500 Office, you can use predefined, customizable templates to help you automatically (or manually) generate business communications that incorporate application data.