Consulting and Upgrades
According to the Sage support site you will be able to download Product Update 6 on June 29, 2011.
Among the planned enhancements are the addition of 7 Extended Solutions and some fine tuning of printers so that each printer preferences is now saved by workstation.
Here’s a quick tip as we enter the busy year end time.
When you are upgrading your MAS90 or MAS200 ERP software – be sure that after you install the latest product updates that you go back to this chart and download all the hot fixes.
Sage issues one product update (the last was product update 3 dated 9/27/10) which contain a whole slew of new features as well as bug fixes (read about the MAS90 & MAS200 product update 3 features here).
What many users who self-install the product updates don’t realize is that Sage does not automatically keep the product update bundle updated for any subsequent fixes.
So if you install Product Update 3 and there’s a bug fix issued you must manually add that fix (termed a Hot Fix) to your system.
The first thing you’ll want to do is read here about how to tell which MAS90 hot fixes have already been installed.
Then navigate online to this link and download any (or all) of the hot fixes you deem required.
One of the frequent questions that users of MAS90 and MAS200 will have prior to upgrading is “what’s changed?”. It’s a pretty common — and smart — question that you’ll want the answer to prior to installing either a major upgrade (moving up a point or full version) or a product update.
Major upgrades are considered to be any that move you up a version of the software. For example moving from MAS90 3.71 to 4.40 would be a major upgrade since during the move you also have pretty significant changes to General Ledger, Accounts Receivable, Accounts Payable, Sales Order, Inventory, RMA, Purchase Order and Bank Reconciliation.
Once you reach level 4.40 then the upgrades will start to be intermingled with what Sage terms Product Updates.
In theory these Product Updates are user installable collections of both product fixes and new features. Presently Sage have released three product updates for MAS90 4.4 (Product Update or PU 1,2,3).
Curious about what’s been added in each version of these upgrades or updates? Sage embeds a web link within the latest version of MAS90 4.4. However if you’ve not yet installed the upgrade then you may have some trouble locating the link to answer your “what’s new” questions.
Therefor you can use the link below to navigate directly to the web page chronicling every enhancement added to MAS 90 from version 3.50 to 4.40 Product Update 3.
The moment you’ve been waiting for has arrived. Sage promised to deliver Product Update 2 by mid-July and by my calculations they’ve done just that. The latest feature update (detailed what’s new) for Sage MAS 90 and MAS 200 version 4.4 is now available in the Sage Online Support Center.
To download the latest update navigate online to the Sage Online Support site. If you’re an end user please be sure that you check first with your Sage Business Partner. Naturally, if you have third party enhancements (customizations) you’ll need to make sure that those are upgraded alongside the product update.
New features include:
In an email to the consultant channel Sage posted a concise two page list of what new features can be expected in product update 2 for Sage MAS 90 and MAS 200 version 4.4.
As you may already know Sage is now issuing more frequent updates through the year as opposed to relying only on annual releases. They believe this will deliver more value for the maintenance that customers pay each year for their Sage MAS 90 and 200.
Here’s a copy of the PDF which shows the new features slated for product update 2 which Sage indicates will arrive in late July (that’s code for August).
