From the Sage MAS Team

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With MAS 90 release 4.4 (currently in development) we plan to deliver Inventory, Purchase Order, and Bill of Material modules on business framework. This will be a major milestone where significant functionality will be available on business framework. It has been a valuable R&D investment and we believe it will yield significant benefit to us and our community.

“Business framework” combined with the bundled “Customizer” functionality give MAS 90 a formidable position in the market place. It makes MAS 90 probably the most easy to integrate, flexible and extendable business application foundation in the market place. It allows code-less customization and provide safe upgrade path otherwise not possible in competitive products.

It echoes commitment to serve our customers better whose solution includes MAS 90 base functionality and has a need to integrate/customize as part of their implementation.

Given much of the community do few things regularly – like “Extend or Enhance” base functionality; “Integrate” with some other functionality; “Customize” base functionality; etc. I will be curious to know how various implementation partners, master developers, third party software developers are utilizing business framework.

What are your “aha” moments during this journey of MAS 90 adopting business framework? What success stories and best practices you enjoy the most that you would like to share with broader audience and your MAS product teams?

Specially, I am interested in how business framework is enabling you to win business and do your job better…faster resulting in net gain for our customers. What percentage of your customization is leveraging Customizer? Do you know you can do Web based mash-ups using Customizer?

PS: I already see quite busy discussion forums around MAS 90 customization/business object capability. Let’s not duplicate similar technical discussion that get discussed there. Here, I am looking for how business framework is enabling business wins and opportunities.

PPS: If you don’t already know about Customizer – I will encourage you to review the information material on it. You may find it to be a great knowledge to have as you walk in at customer site.