Sage MAS 500 Ranked 5/5 Stars in Accounting Software Review
12/7/2007 2:09:49 PM
From the December 2007 CPA Technology Advisor review of high-end accounting systems:
Sage Software MAS 500 ERP serves the upper mid-market space of today's businesses. Sage MAS 500 is the strongest player in the Sage Software line-up of accounting solutions. Built from the ground up using Microsoft SQL Server, Visual Studio, .NET and Microsoft Office technology, Sage MAS 500 is a complete enterprise management solution. Sage MAS 500 solutions expand to integrate business intelligence, order processing, distribution and manufacturing to help progressive companies streamline operations and manage with insight.
Version 7.05 introduced three key overlying themes: streamlined distribution workflow, greatly enhanced access to information, and a powerful new Warehouse Automation module. The Warehouse Automation module streamlines order picking and cycle counts for warehouse personnel, instantly feeding information wirelessly back to the Sage MAS 500 system in many different ways. A new module, Business Insights Explorer, allows the user a new level of inquiry, drilldown and drills around functionality.
Modules/Scalability - 5 Stars
Sage MAS 500 is a reliable, robust and integrated series of enterprise applications that covers all areas of business, including financials, distribution, customer relationship management (CRM), manufacturing, human resources, payroll, project accounting, financial reporting, electronic commerce, and more.
Alerts is one of the most popular Sage MAS 500 modules. By sending e-mail notifications to you and your specified personnel when something significant happens in your business, Alerts can announce critical events including credit holds, inventory thresholds, priority client transactions, urgency levels, and more. The eExecutive module is included as standard in Sage MAS 500 and offers executives a customizable, web-based, real-time overview of vital business operations as well as user-defined key performance indicators.
Generally speaking, Sage MAS 500 is ideally suited for companies with 50 to more than 1,000 employees and is available in three editions: Small Business (10 or fewer concurrent users), Standard Edition (up to 50 users) and Enterprise Edition (50 plus users in the SQL Enterprise Environment).
Financials includes GL, AR, AP, Advanced Consolidations, Allocations, Fixed Assets, Cash Management, Multicurrency Management and Purchase Order modules. Project Accounting integrates with Microsoft Project and provides an end-to-end project management solution. Sage TimeSheet can be deployed through networked clients or secure web browsers to connect your remote workforce on a real-time basis. Distribution provides modules for Inventory and Warehouse management, Sales and Purchase orders, integration with eOrders and Advanced Kitting capabilities.
Manufacturing options include Light Manufacturing, Advanced Manufacturing, Advanced Planning and Scheduling, Estimating and Engineering Change Management as well as Project Management, MRP, Shop Floor Control and Product Configurator. CRM includes eCustomer, eSalesforce and Sage CRM SalesLogix.
Read the rest of the review of Sage MAS 500.
