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NEW! Sage MAS 500 Version 7.2

What’s New in Sage MAS 500 7.2

For more than a decade, Sage MAS 500 has provided users with value and flexibility through innovative technology solutions. Sage MAS 500 7.2 builds on that foundation by leveraging today’s technologies to add functionality that will save you even more time and money. New inquiry, analysis, and data management tools improve decision-making by giving you quick and easy access to key information.

New Business Insights Dashboard

Get the vital information you need to stay in charge of your business all in one place with the new Business Insights Dashboard. Using .NET technology, the Business Insights Dashboard puts an end to information overload by putting up-to-date sales statistics, key accounting data, business trends, and competitive intelligence at your fingertips and all in one place. Dashboards are customizable, with security to control which dashboards each user can view.

Business Insights Dashboard also supports access to Business Insights Explorer views directly from the browser. You’ll benefit from the powerful sorting, filtering, grouping, and drill-down capabilities, without requiring a Sage MAS 500 client installation. Best of all, Business Insights Dashboard comes standard with Sage MAS 500 7.2, so everyone benefits from this new tool

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New Data Import Manager

Sage MAS 500 continues its strong tradition as an open ERP platform for integration and customization with the new Data Import Manager. Built with the latest .NET and SQL Server technology, the Data Import Manager allows database administrators to configure imports into a wide variety of Sage MAS 500 transaction formats, using a powerful mapping wizard that provides the detailed knowledge of Sage MAS 500, including required fields, default validations and lookups. Imports can be one-time or ongoing (e.g., importing payroll data from a third-party payroll service). Data sources include ASCII, Delimited, Microsoft Access, Excel, SQL Server, and XML.

Warehouse Automation Enhancements

Enhancements will streamline your warehouse automation for even greater efficiency and accuracy. Now you can pick based on a sales order number or shipment number, so you can complete urgent orders first without completing an entire pick list or returning to the Sage MAS 500 console. A new automated e-mail feature provides instant feedback to the back office after specific events are processed from the handheld, ensuring that key personnel involved within shipment workflow are kept up-to-date. New options allow warehouse managers to require handheld personnel to scan each item, or enter the customer number when picking or packing an order. These processes will ensure a more accurate picture of the inventory situation prior to processing new orders.

Sage MAS 500 Office Updates

Easier and more powerful, the Sage MAS 500 Office template creation and merge functionality now lets you drive the creation of the template from within Word, instead of outside the application. Sage MAS 500 Office is available in all data entry tasks in addition to providing Microsoft Office 2007 support.

Expanded Memo Management

The Memo Management option has been added to all tasks that contain the Sage MAS 500 Office toolbar option, and created memos are automatically assigned to the given task such as the voucher, customer, or invoice. Business Insights Explorer now includes a new “Active Memos” preview for the most common memos such as Vouchers, Invoices, Work Orders, Projects, Purchase Orders, and Sales Orders.

Business Insights Explorer

Business Insights Explorer has become the tool of choice for customers to inquire and navigate through the wealth of relational information stored within Sage MAS 500. With Sage MAS 500 7.2, you get a set of new views that allow you to immediately identify and organize critical information. For example, the new “Where Serial Number Used” preview lets you immediately identify where a given item serial number has been used within your business operations.

Documentation You Can Use

We want you to get the most out of your investment in Sage MAS 500, so we updated and upgraded our documentation to include training and search capabilities. We added HTML help and multimedia tutorials, so you can learn - on the spot - how to handle common tasks and functionality. For example, brief tutorials will quickly show you how to use the new Business Insights Dashboard. Powerful new search capabilities let you search for topics across all modules so you can find helpful information faster. Plus, all Help topics contain links to the Help Center home page and the FAQs & Troubleshooting page, and you have the option to print specific topics or a book of related topics.