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Sage Business Intelligence

Sage 200 Business Intelligence is a powerful reporting tool designed to simplify the financial management and analysis of your business by using Excel as a flexible front end. Simple to use ‘out of the box’ with the flexibility to tailor reports to meet your unique requirements.

Sage 200 Business Intelligence (BI) ensures you receive the maximum benefit from your business systems, by enabling the extraction of real intelligence from data accumulated every day in the normal course of operations. Sage 200 BI provides a powerful analysis and reporting tool which transforms data into meaningful intelligence.

The inclusion of Sage Business Intelligence into the core Sage 200 suite means there are no additional* software costs associated with the purchase of this module.

We asked Jamie Davies from our Sage 200 consultant team to explain some more...

Jamie, tell us a little about the principles behind Sage Business Intelligence.

Business Intelligence is a move away from complex spreadsheets that are a drain on system resources. It has always been possible to use Excel to analyse Sage data but, previously, knowledge of the backend database and ODBC links was required in order to import the figures into a spreadsheet. Business Intelligence does not require this technical knowledge, so it’s much quicker and easier for the user.

What are the main benefits to the customer?

This really is an impressive module that enables the user to run sophisticated queries for planning, forecasting and financial reporting with just a basic knowledge of Excel. Reports are simple to create and amend and Business Intelligence runs far quicker than previous Sage reporting options.

What is the best feature?

Many clients find the dashboard feature very useful. This gives the user the ability to display all of his most essential information together as a set of tables or graphs in the very first workbook of the spreadsheet. This means that all of the headline figures, from the reports which calculate his most essential business statistics, can be presented in one central location for easy access and analysis at a glance.

So how much does Sage BI cost?

Sage 200 BI is now an integral part of the latest version of the Sage 200 Suite. So there are no software costs associated with this module however an upgrade to the latest version may be required. Consultancy days would be needed to perform this upgrade and to provide training on the new module. I would strongly recommend that any Sage 200 customer considered Sage 200 BI for the analysis and reporting benefits that can be achieved.

* An upgrade may be required to enable Sage Business Intelligence as well as some consultancy days but there are numerous benefits associated with the inclusion of this new module.

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