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Sage 200 Business Intelligence
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Due for release Summer '08
In order to manage business operations,
most mid-sized companies
use either a standalone accounting
application, an enterprise resource
planning (ERP) suite or a customer
relationship management solution
(CRM). These systems are ideal for
capturing and processing transactional
business data, but they were
not designed to convert that data
into meaningful business intelligence
(BI), and they lack good analytical
and reporting tools.
A new generation of powerful cost effective
business intelligence (BI) solutions
from Sage helps mid-sized organisations
to build significant competitive advantage,
by identifying inefficient processes
as well as opportunities for innovation
and business growth. By leveraging and
structuring existing business data, Sage
Business Intelligence (SageBI) provides
real intelligence about the behaviour of
your markets, customers, operations,
suppliers, business performance and
much more.
To date, expense and complexity have
put BI solutions out of the reach of many
businesses that would benefit from the
sharper management insight and business
agility that these tools can bring.
Now, SageBI solutions can help managers
to react faster, make better decisions,
and take action based on solid
analysis and insight.
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Analyse data against numerous different
benchmarks
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Gain visibility of key performance indicators,
including the cost of sales and
exceptions such as areas of high and
low performance
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Access and analyse customer information,
such as profitability and seasonal
requirements
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Plan for business growth at minimal
risk by:
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analysing data from across
the enterprise
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identifying customer and
products trends
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highlighting additional
revenue opportunities
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Produce quick and easy management
and financial reports and distribute
these via email, through web publishing
and to mobile applications such
as PDAs.
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Cost-effective reporting
and analysis
In providing comprehensive management
reporting and analytical functions,
SageBI provides users with the ability to
build reports in the familiar Microsoft
Excel environment, delivering reports as
a combination of MS Excel workbooks
and intranet/extranet dashboards.
Maximum productivity with minimum
cost of ownership
The SageBI package is scaleable to suit
small, medium and large businesses and
has a low cost-per-user pricing model
that makes it extremely attractive to
growing businesses.
Support from Sage with expert consultancy
from an accerdited Sage Business
Partner means your solution will match
your business needs, aligned to your
strategic and tactical objectives. You
have the assurance of knowing that your
solution is backed by our long-term
commitment to invest in the technologies
and solutions which customers need to
stay ahead in a rapidly changing world.
Easy, fast deployment
Competing products require custom
solutions to be built, whereas SageBI is
a complete solution including pre-built
data warehouse schema; pre-built ETL;
pre-built calculations; pre-built OLAP
cubes; Meta data and role-based dashboards
for Sage applications. Planning,
forecasting, scorecards, sales performance,
and financial reporting are delivered
immediately.
The solution is not limited to Sage alone.
Combining Microsoft Excel and SQL
Server Analysis Services, SageBI provides
the capability to define a single
view of your business performance from
data that spans different data-warehouses,
multi-dimensional sources and operational
systems.
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