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Paperless Office Reports for MAS 90 and MAS 200 Payroll Not Saving

March 16, 2009 by Wayne Schulz

If you’re using Paperless Office with Sage MAS 90 and MAS 200 Payroll module, you may want to take a read at what Sage MAS 90 Consultant Beth Bowers and Mike Fitzgerald have already uncovered.

Looks as if not all of the daily processing reports in Payroll are being saved when you are using Paperless Office.

While the payroll Register saves, there have been reports that the Payroll Data Entry Audit Report and Pre-Check Register are being over-written each time a new payroll is generated.

This issue has been reported to Sage and they are working on a fix. In the interim if you are using Paperless Office with Sage MAS 90 or MAS 200 payroll you should make sure you have paper copies of all registers.

90Minds via Beth Bowers and Mike Fitzgerald – The Fitzgerald Group

FRX Report Writer for MAS 90 Still Alive

February 15, 2009 by Wayne Schulz

FRX Financial Reporting for MAS 90 appears to have gained a new lease on life. According to Mark Chinsky of Client’s First Business Solutions – New Jersey, the FRX Report Writer is back under development (or at least is being promoted as a solution by Microsoft) after being slated for discontinuation in favor of PerformancePoint Server.

Mark spotted an article in Network Computing that states in part:

Microsoft made a surprise announcement that presents good news and bad news for customers and partners who were developing on the PerformancePoint Server product. The good news is that the dashboarding, scorecarding and analytic capabilities of PerformancePoint are now being made available as free services to customers with an enterprise license of SharePoint Server. The bad news is that PerformancePoint and its planning functionality will no longer be offered as a separate product, though there will be a final “Service Pack3” upgrade to the planning functionality released this summer. Translation? Microsoft’s BI team is backing away from deep financial and operational performance management, ceding those opportunities to the Microsoft Dynamics unit and stranding some customers and partners in the process.

Microsoft says it is bundling high-demand PerformancePoint functionality like dashboarding, scorecarding and advanced analytics with SharePoint to better fulfill its longstanding goal of spreading business intelligence to the broadest possible base of users.

“By putting this functionality into SharePoint, it makes it available to exponentially more users,” said Kristina Kerr, Lead Product Manager, Microsoft Business Intelligence, in an interview with Intelligent Enterprise. Share “As for the financial budgeting and planning piece, we found that it involves very different buying behaviors, different people and different deployment scenarios, so we’re very deliberately splitting those two areas.”

A final upgrade of PerformancePoint may buy planning-focused customers and partners some time, but nobody wants to make long-range plans around a product without a road map. Thus, one of two paths forward Microsoft points to exploits what Kerr describes as “broad planning capabilities” it can offer with the combination of SQL Server, SharePoint Server and Excel.

“For example, we have an Excel add-in that exposes the analytic capabilities of SQL Server Analysis Services,” Kerr explained. “Analysis Services offers a function called Forecast, which is really predictive analytics based on historical trends. [That’s the kind of functionality] that’s suitable for scenarios that aren’t specific to the office of finance but that call for broad planning and forecasting capabilities.”

A second path forward for partners and customers interesting in planning is to work with the Microsoft Dynamics ERP and applications unit, which will continue to develop its Forecaster and FRX products for forecasting, budgeting and financial reporting.

via: 90Minds

Phone Support Agreement for MAS 90 and MAS 200

January 12, 2009 by Wayne Schulz

We provide all technical support for Sage MAS 90 and 200 under an unlimited telephone support agreement. This removes the need for our clients to worry that their staff will be charged for technical support questions. Since our plan covers as many technical questions as the staff may have – there’s seldom a need (unless additional services have been requested) for an extra suport charge.

It’s important to realize that this fee is for support and not the basic maintenance which is charged annually by Sage Software for their product upgrades.

Mas90 Support Agreement 2009

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Accpac Software consultants offer up YouTube video to explain benefits of their product

January 9, 2009 by Wayne Schulz

Accpac consultants Terrell & Terrell have created a rather amusing parody video that demonstrates why someone should want to use their Accpac time collection software.

The 7 minute video is a skit that someone in the firm produced which was shown at their annual customer conference. While the point of the skit is to drive home the need for additional software – I like it as a selling tool much better than receiving a boring sales call asking me if I’m interested in software.

While I’m not sure who the starring actors were in this video, I’m assuming it was staff from the firm. How interesting that a prospective user for Accpac might receive this YouTube (instead of boring boilerplate emails) and then during the initial meeting find themselves face to face with the actors who starred in the skit!

Terrell & Terrell is a Dallas Texas based CPA firm specializing in the Accpac product line. Their products include accounting , CRM, project management, point of sale, EDDI, and Human Resource Management.

Link – Terrell & Terrell

90 Minds Consulting Group launches web site

November 29, 2008 by Wayne Schulz

90 Minds is a group of consultants representing accounting software packages such as those from Sage, Intuit, Microsoft, SAP, Deltek and more.

This independent association of consultants, of which Schulz Consulting is one of the founding members, numbers over 25 separate companies with 100+ total consultants.

Because this group is not affiliated with any one particular software vendors, it possesses what may be the most unique capabilities of any company nationwide.

Instead of attempting to merge in members from as far away as Hawaii, the 90 Minds Consulting Group decided two years ago to informally structure around a private email list.

As this list popularity grew, the members wanted to have an outlet to advertise their services and membership in the group.

Thus the 90 Minds web site is born.

In the coming months this site will be significantly enhanced to include:

Member locator
Skills / product locator
Contact a member
Location searches

The site is strucured so that content relevant to all users of ERP Accounting Software will have a place to read bulletins and tips published by some of the most experienced consultants in the United States.

Link: 90Minds.com

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