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Sage is rebranding most products in its portfolio to be consistent with their naming conventions worldwide. However, there may be some confusion as, for example, Sage has a product in the UK called Sage 100 ERP and what we know as MAS 90 today will become Sage 100. The two products are completely different but Sage’s hope is that they are different customer sets and the confusion will be minimal…. Only time will tell.
MAS90 and MAS200 Renaming
Relative to Clients First clients, the new names that will affect most of our clients are :
Old Name
New Name
MAS 90
Sage 100 ERP Standard
MAS 200
Sage 100 ERP Advanced
MAS 200 SQL
Sage 100 ERP Premium
MAS 500
Sage 500 ERP
This rebranding shouldn’t have much affect on our clients, but clearly you may be surprised to see these new names and new terms. Please call us if you have any questions about this.
Here is the full listing of the product name changes for your reference:
Thanks to Wayne Schulz for pointing out the availability.
This new roadmap document outlines the next 2 years or so of development. There are a number of valuable enhancements moving into MAS 4.5 which many of our clients and prospects have been looking for, for quite some time.
It looks as if the next major release, MAS 90 5.0 will be focused on stronger real time web integration, starting to create some pre-packaged workflows such as Purchase Order approvals. This release looks to be end of 2012/early 2013.
It will also include the ability to automatically download patches and updates, although not likely install full blown upgrades.
MAS 90 Support and MAS 200 Support: If you use Sage MAS90, MAS200, or MAS500 distribution and accounting software, Clients First Business Solutions, LLC wants to be your go to partner for ongoing service,help, support, report writing, upgrades and maintenance.
Shipping now, Sage MAS Intelligence (SMI) which works with MAS 90, MAS 200, Sage Extended Enterprise Suite, and MAS500, is explained and demonstrated in this recording that the California office of Clients First recently put on for our clients. This solution is the replacement for FRx that Sage is offering now that Microsoft has discontinued Frx.
The video explains both the similarities and differences between the previous solution, Microsoft FRx and SMI.
In a nutshell, SMI is a solution that is embedded into Microsoft Excel that can directly read and understand MAS 90/200/500 data files. It’s designed to walk a user through creating not only financial reports and statements, but other types of non-financial reports such as dashboards, analytics, KPI’s and even traditional reports such as an AR customer aging.
Come watch and listen in this segment which gives an overview and demonstration of the system. In a forthcoming blog, we will go into a deeper demonstration of the solution so that you will be able to watch these videos and start to feel comfortable managing and designing your own reports.
If you have any questions on this product feel free to call us at 888-222-8827 or contact Jeff Banks at jbanks@clientsfirst-us.com for more information or to arrange a one on one demonstration.
The Clients First MAS 90, MAS 200, MAS 500 Sage MAS Intelligence video presentation
Sage Payment Services has announced a new app, program and hardware to take payments from all of the leading smartphones and even the ipad. Most existing solutions are a bundle of components and have steep fees buried into it for the ‘luxury’ of taking credit cards in a mobile scenario like a trade show, or even a Botox Party .
Sage Payment Services is owned by the same Sage that publishes MAS 90, MAS 200, MAS 500. However, this application will work with any ERP application that can import payments such as Epicor, Microsoft Dynamics NAV, AX, or SAP Business One.
We have seen that Sage Payment Services (SPS) has historically been very competitive with all of the major players out there. Sage has their own platform and is not reselling a 3rd parties solution with this. If you look at the Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) which combines per transaction fees and monthly fees, the SPS solution is likely to cost less than any other available and one solution works on almost all Smartphone platforms.
Contact us at 732-970-1450 for more information or a quote. The official product slick is below:
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