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New MAS500 Pricing Effective December 1, 2011

December 1, 2011 by Wayne Schulz

In the Sage ERP portfolio, Sage ERP MAS 500 is well positioned for companies too big for Sage
ERP MAS 90 and 200, but not ready for Sage ERP X3.

Feedback from Business Partners indicated that Sage ERP MAS 500 delivers the robust functionality required by mid-market distribution and manufacturing customers, but the current module based pricing is sometimes prohibitive in the 5-25 user range. As a result, Sage is pleased to announce the availability of new user based pricing bundles for Sage ERP MAS 500!

The new user based pricing bundles for Sage ERP MAS 500 are as follows:

Sage ERP MAS90, MAS200, MAS500 Supported Versions and Retirement Dates – October 2011

October 18, 2011 by Wayne Schulz

The link below provides a document showing the lastest Sage ERP MAS90,200,500 Supported Versions as of October 1011.

In essence the last date for payroll and year end updates is the end of life for those using payroll.

Recall that many states are issuing significant payroll withholding rules which might require a program update in order to continue processing payrolls. In most cases it is not apparent until the later part of December that a program update is going to be required.

Note that on most of these versions payroll updates end 9 months ahead of the official phone/email support.

Sage ERP MAS 90 , 200 , 500 Retirement Dates (pdf)

BizNet Excel Reporting for Sage ERP MAS90 and 200 – October 26, 2011 1pm EDT

September 29, 2011 by Wayne Schulz

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Sage ERP MAS 500 Roadmap

September 27, 2011 by Wayne Schulz

The Sage ERP MAS 500 roadmap is out reflecting planned upgrades for 2011 through 2014. Watch for lots of manufacturing improvements in 2011. The Sage Exchange credit card interface is slated for integration in late 2012 before the road map goes silent until 2014 when Sales Order usability improvements and Sage Advisor are added.

Download the PDF roadmap here.

Sage ERP MAS 500 Will Work with Windows 8

September 19, 2011 by Wayne Schulz

Good news from Sage. They’ve verified that Sage ERP MAS 500 will run on the next release of Microsoft Windows 8. Early reports from the Microsoft BUILD conference had indicated as much. Sage ERP MAS 500 Product Manager Linda Cade notes:

Further, our own Wei Li was in attendance and received a Windows 8 tablet. He installed both the Windows 8 desktop and the Windows 8 server and confirmed that Sage ERP MAS 500 Version 7.4 and the development version 7.5 run perfectly in the new operating system. This is wonderful news!

Read the full post at Sage ERP MAS 500 Partner Link

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