Sage 200 helps staff work together more effectively whilst limiting and optimising the use of expensive resources. Managers have instant access to company-wide information and are fully equipped to plan for the future. Utilize is an award-winning Sage partner and can guide you through the numerous options available under the Sage 200 banner as well as assisting with specialist development work or customised reporting requirements.

So if you feel you have outgrown your current accounts package, why not arrange a meeting with a Sage consultant to discuss your requirements. In the mean time, you can read our round up of the main features of Sage 200.

Top 5 features of Sage 200

1)  A solid and dependable platform for your business as Sage 200 relies on industry-recognised Microsoft SQL technology.

2)  The integration of processes throughout your organisation will remove ‘silos’ of information as well as ensuring that information is made to work harder. Data entered once can be used time and time again across your business from the accounts department through to sales and marketing.

3)  Flexibility. Sage 200 is flexible throughout. From the main screen of the product - which can be configured to show the information most pertinent to each user - to the many configuration options available within each area of the system, Sage 200 is designed to work the way you do.

4)  Multi-user capability. Sage 200 is extremely scalable thanks to its SQL relational database and able to support many concurrent users, typically up to 50.

5)  Management Information. Information is presented graphically throughout the system, to give you quick answers to your questions. A wide range of management reports is available and the report designer (with which Sage 50 customers will already be familiar) allows you to tailor these reports, or create your own. Sage 200 now offers 'Business Intelligence' as standard  - a powerful reporting tool that integrates with Excel allowing users to drill down and see which individual invoices make up any given value.

There is so much more to Sage 200. So here are the other features too...

Sharing data for a unified view of the customer. The Sage 200 Suite helps your people access a more concise, accurate and complete view of your customers and their every interaction with your organisation. Information such as credit limits, buying patterns and queries are easily accessible - improving customer communication and service.

Effective process management. The Sage 200 Suite includes the applications needed to manage information and processes in every part of your business. For example, it supports you in managing the whole process of customer acquisition - from the initial marketing campaign and lead generation, through the quotation process to successfully winning the order - through to order fulfilment and flowing on to providing outstanding customer service in the future.

Fast return on investment. All the applications within the Suite can be quickly deployed and mapped to specific business requirements, ensuring that you are up and running quickly with software that’s right for your business.

Flexibility and choice. All components of the Sage 200 Suite are designed to work together, minimising interoperability issues. In addition, your business benefits from simplified ownership and a single point of contact and accountability.

Easy customisation. As well as having options to configure applications, in many cases the software can be customised fully by a Sage Business Partner to suit particular business processes.

Supporting industry-specific operations. Sage 200 supports operations specific to particular industries, notably construction, manufacturing, retail, wholesale and distribution, giving you access to wide range of software options and ensures that you benefit from fully integrated operations.

Better targeted marketing. Tools within Sage 200 CRM will allow customer and prospect data to be segmented based on key buying information, such as by product or seasonality, thus drive sales and make the best use of your marketing budget.

Improved pipeline management. Using the pipeline management functionality, sales teams will be able to effectively analyse and manage their sales pipeline, from first contact to final sale.

Workflow management. The ability to manage business processes from initial contact to product delivery and problem resolution.