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Sage Adds Debbie Hill as Sage MAS Intelligence (SMI) Senior Trainer

February 24, 2012 by Wayne Schulz

Sage have been touring the country talking to consultants and users about their Sage MAS Intelligence product and why the adoption level has not been as fast as they’d like. In response to several requests for better resources they announced that Sage’s Demo Guru Debbie Hill will transition to become a Senior Trainer for Sage Alchemex (aka Sage MAS Intelligence) effective March 5, 2012.

Sage initially announced that Alchemex would be their preferred/recommended solution for replacing the recently retired FRX Financial report writer.

Since that announcement Sage acquired Alchemex (the creator of the BI product) and has been working overtime to convince consultants and customers to adopt SMI as their FRX replacement.

The main issue , according to several consultants, appears to be that SMI was originally slated to be a Business Intelligence report writer versus a full fledged financial statement creator.

Sage just wrapped up a 10 city tour where they talked to users and consultants about SMI – and while they don’t mention how they’ll simplify the complexity of creating financial statements with SMI they have at least taken a good first step in adding some dedicated training resources by moving Debbie Hill to Sage Alchemex.

Full release is below:

Debbie Hill joins Sage Alchemex in North America

It gives me great pleasure to announce that Debbie Hill will be joining the Sage Alchemex team in North America as a Senior Trainer effective as at 5 March 2012. Debbie will be reporting to Ruth Gray who manages our Sage Alchemex learning services team globally. Debbie will be focused on driving adoption of Business Intelligence by addressing the bourgeoning need for skills around our BI modules through focused channel enablement, as well as knowledge and skills transfer horizontally across the SMB and MME business units respectively. Debbie will be a pivotal team member for us in our product roll outs across Sage 50—U.S. Edition, Sage 50—Canadian Edition, Sage 100 ERP, Sage 300 ERP, Sage 500 ERP, Sage PFW ERP and Sage ERP X3.

Debbie has been with Sage for 10 years and has extensive experience in support, sales, pre-sales and training capacity. She has in-depth knowledge of the core Accounting and ERP platforms in Sage North America and has more recently been a champion of our cross sell platforms including Business Intelligence, SPS and CRM.

I would like to take this opportunity to welcome Debbie as a new member of our team; we are very excited to create more focus on driving BI education into our business. I would also like to thank Susan Frederick for facilitating a smooth transition for Debbie into our team.

Filed Under: Sage MAS Intelligence Tagged With: alchemex, sage mas intelligence, smi

Sage Softline South Africa Acquires Alchemex

October 10, 2011 by Wayne Schulz

Sage have announced that their South African division, Sage Softline, has acquired the tool behind the Sage MAS Intelligence product. The deal is apparently effective October 1, 2011 though few additional details were released and there’s presently no plans to issue a standalone press release.

Alchemex was selected about a year ago  in North America to be Sage ERP MAS90 and MAS200’s replacement for Microsoft’s discontinued FRX financial report writer. In additional to drawing upon financial data Alchemex/Sage MAS Intelligence has the capability of reading other data tables such as customer and vendor lists and preparing reports based on that information.

 

Sage MAS Intelligence via The ERP Lifestyle Consultant

Filed Under: Sage 100 ERP Tagged With: alchemex, sage mas intelligence

Sage MAS Intelligence (SMI) Free Web Demonstration Schedule

August 22, 2011 by Wayne Schulz

As you know the FRX Financial Reporting tool included with Sage ERP MAS 90 and 200 General Ledger is no longer supported by the software publisher (Microsoft).

Sage have issued prior notices on this which you can review here.

FRX remains compatible with prior versions of Sage ERP MAS 90 and 200. Sage have also indicated it will be compatible with the next version 4.5 slated for release 9/8/11 – though the only assistance Sage can provide is with integration to Sage ERP MAS 90 and MAS 200. All bug fixes and patches have ceased to be readily available for the FRX program.

For new custom financial reporting projects involving more than a few hours of efforts you may wish to evaluate which reporting tool you should use to create new reports.

Moving forward users of FRX will eventually need to migrate to another reporting solution. Sage have provided Sage MAS Intelligence (SMI) as their recommended solution.

SMI is Microsoft Excel based and draws data not only from your financial data but also data from other MAS 90 + MAS 200 data files such as Accounts Payable, Accounts Receivable, etc.

Sage published this PDF which provides many tips and online links showing how to get started with SMI. Those of you with immediate reporting needs may find it helpful to review the information which goes into greater depth on available resources.

On Wednesday August 24, 2011 Sage will sponsor a free one hour look (30 minute demo and 30 minute question and answer) at creating financial statements using SMI Report Designer. The session starts at 1pm PDT or 4pm EDT. You can sign up here to attend this overview or review the schedule of future SMI web seminars.

Filed Under: mas200, Sage 100 ERP, Sage MAS Intelligence Tagged With: alchemex, reporting, sage, smi

Sage MAS Intelligence Quick Guides (PDF)

March 4, 2011 by Wayne Schulz

Sage yesterday provided our 90 Minds Consulting Group with three documents that explain a little more about the features, functionality and cost of their Sage MAS Intelligence reporting tool.

As you probably recall Sage was forced to retire the distribution of FRX Financial Reporting as of January 31, 2011. This occurred because Microsoft (the owner/publisher of FRX) discontinued distribution effectively bringing product sales of FRX to an end of life with support terminating at the end of 2012.

Though Sage have promised FRX compatibility through Sage ERP MAS 90 and 200 v4.5 – they’re already rolling out Sage MAS Intelligence as their featured replacement for FRX. Since existing users of Sage ERP MAS 90 and 200 receive a free license of Sage MAS Intelligence (customers on plan receive a free Report Manager license and a Security Manager for Sage ERP MAS 90 and 200 v4.4 — or EES 1.4).

There have been a number of questions (cost, functionality) that users and consultants have asked which I think are answered quite nicely in the PDF files below.

Sage MAS Intelligence Cheat Sheet

Getting Going With Sage ERP MAS Intelligence

What is Sage MAS Intelligence?

Filed Under: Sage MAS Intelligence, Sage software Tagged With: alchemex, mas200, Sage 100 ERP, sage mas intelligence

Everything you want to know about Sage MAS Intelligence but were too embarrassed to ask

February 17, 2011 by Wayne Schulz

Sage ERP MAS Intelligence is available for different user levels and multiple databases. Report viewer licenses can run existing reports, report manager licenses have the same capabilities as viewer plus allow for creating reports, parameters and templates.

Not confused yet? More powerful capabilities still are available in the report designer which allows report building.

For more information here’s an updated explanation from Sage of what’s included in the “Free” version of Sage MAS Intelligence as well as what you have to pay for.

Sage MAS Intelligence Explained

via: What is Sage MAS Intelligence?

Filed Under: Sage 100 ERP Tagged With: alchemex, business intelligence, mas200, Sage 100 ERP, sage mas intelligence, smi

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