Solved (sorta): How to Turn Off MAS90 Extended Item Description Pop-Ups
February 27, 2011
My good friend Mark Kotyla of Giving Tree Consulting has just asked (and answered) a great question over on the Ask 90Minds site (a site dedicated to the free exchange of MAS90 and MAS200 technical questions).
His question:
When scrolling through Item Maintenance or Item Inquiry records an item description pop-up is displayed for any item descriptions longer than the 30 default character limit. Is there a way to turn these pop-ups off?
I’ve had this question several times from users who find that as they are entering data into MAS 90 or MAS 200 that the pop-up window for Inventory extended item descriptions displays as their cursor passes through the field.
Mark has hit upon this simple – yet effective – cure:
Can’t turn them off, but you can change the tab settings on that screen to omit the description… Which will skip that field and therefore not display the pop-up window.
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Sage Summit Customer Guide – PDF
February 25, 2011
One of the members of my 90Minds Consulting Group just sent over this PDF of the 2011 Sage Summit Customer Guide. It includes registration information as well as a nice layout of what sessions are being offered and at what time.
There is also a full conference catalog available online which provides more detailed descriptions of each session.
Sage Summit 2011 Customer Guide
via: 90 Minds
Need MAS 90 Help – Ask90Minds
February 25, 2011
Have a quick question about Sage ERP MAS 90 or MAS 200 (as well as Epicor, Sage ABRA, Sage Accpac, Sage MAS 90, Sage MAS 200, Sage MAS 500, SageCRM, SAP Business One, Microsoft Dynamics, Navision, SAP, Open Systems or Traverse) – visit the new question and answer site founded by the 90 Minds Consulting Group.
The 90 Minds Consulting Group is an affiliation of 27 independent consulting firms comprised of over 400 individual employees spread across:
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The group formed in 2005 and monthly shared in excess of 500 messages between members who provide feedback to each other on support issues around the products that they work with.
Now that shared knowledge is available to you — at no cost.
The web site — Ask90Minds accepts questions from any user on the web (you can login by creating an account, using your Facebook login or using a Twitter login).
To ask a question simply navigate to the http://www.ask90minds.com home page.
Ask your question and it will instantly be sent to the 90 Minds Consulting Groups internal communication system (Socialcast) via RSS feed. Here all of the 90 Minds members are immediately notified of every question that is submitted on the Ask90Minds site.
The next time you have a quick ERP question – give the Ask90 Minds site a try.
Everything you want to know about Sage MAS Intelligence but were too embarrassed to ask
February 17, 2011
Sage ERP MAS Intelligence is available for different user levels and multiple databases. Report viewer licenses can run existing reports, report manager licenses have the same capabilities as viewer plus allow for creating reports, parameters and templates.
Not confused yet? More powerful capabilities still are available in the report designer which allows report building.
For more information here’s an updated explanation from Sage of what’s included in the “Free” version of Sage MAS Intelligence as well as what you have to pay for.
Sage MAS Intelligence Explained
via: What is Sage MAS Intelligence?
VTEchnologies Terminates Sage – Sage Terminates Starship Link
February 14, 2011
You may have previously heard that Sage and V-Technologies would no longer have an OEM relationship where Sage resold the popular V-Technologies Starship software.
In an email blast sent out today, Caroline Walsh, the Direct or Sales and Marketing for V-Technologies shares that Sage will stop offering a Starship Link starting with version 4.5 of Sage ERP MAS 90 and 200.
Instead it seems that V-Technologies will develop a link using Sage’s pseudo programming scripting language – Business Objects Interfact (BOI).
They also mention that they’re actively seeking out a developer to create a link between Sage ERP MAS 90 and 200 and their Starship product.
What Does This All Mean?
Should you abandon ship and switch to another shipping package?
I don’t think solely based on this change in the relationship. V-Technologies has been doing a fine job for the last several years handling virtually all of their upgrades outside of Sage.
If you’re looking for a new shipping solution and you use multiple carriers – Starship is still the more mature choice for most users.
The Contact Us Page Your Web Site Must Have
February 14, 2011
This morning while browsing the web I happened upon what I consider to be the perfect design for a “contact us page” on the web site of JMT Consulting, a Sage Fund Accounting and Intacct Partner.
Admittedly the design is simple. All that’s displayed is a list of company personnel, a link to send them email and their phone numbers.
Does your site have this? How often do you browses a web site praying to come accross a contact’s email only to be presented with a very generic “contact us” button.
This is a contact page done right. It provides information for both clients and prospects to contact real people at real phone numbers or email addresses. You should visit (use the link below) and email whoever is maintaining your site and ask that they add the same type of page.
Sage Analyst Day 2011 Webcast
February 7, 2011
Sage have just posted the audio and video from their analyst event held February 2, 2011 in London. The half-day event covered:
- Introduction
- Foundations for Growth
- Leveraging the web
- Healthcare insights
- Upper mid-market
- Payments opportunity
- CFO perspectives
While the entire webcast is helpful — skip ahead to the Q&A (you can use the pull down menu to select the segments to view) and check out the questions that analysts ask. Key topics discussed: Sage’s North America profits, brand, SaaS as a channel of distribution.
via: Sage
Sage Summit 2011 Agenda
February 7, 2011
The detailed conference schedule is due to go live on March 8, 2011 and today (February 7, 2011) is the day by when users submissions for teaching sessions will be decided upon (expect to hear whether you’re presenting by mid-February).
Sage Summit 2011 Learning Tracks
This high level overview (click the image above for a more readable view) provides a better idea of the types of sessions that will be offered during this 5 day joint customer and partner conference starting July 11, 2011 in Washington DC.
via: Sage Summit 2011 Call For Presentations
Sage Mobile Payments Offers Mobile Credit Card Swipe For 400 Devices
February 3, 2011
Sage Payment Solutions announces Sage Mobile Payments with integrated secure credit card reader. This service adds to the already announced Sage Mobile Payments by integrating secure credit card reader capabilities.
The reader works on over 400 different devices including iPhone, Android and BlackBerry.
From Sage:
Sage Mobile Payments launches February 2011 and will offer small and mid-sized businesses (SMBs) a low monthly fee, absolutely no incremental processing fees and an optional highly secure card reader that plugs into a mobile device’s audio jack. End-to-end encryption from the card reader device to the application is now a requirement in the business community, and Sage Mobile is leading the way in meeting that demand.
While other vendors are fighting it out over no monthly fees but very high processing fees, Sage Mobile is saying no to marking up processing fees, which is the right thing to do for SMB customers that process a lot of volume.
Sage is focused on a reasonable monthly fee and no additional markup on processing fees which is much more cost effective for the SMB customer. SMBs need to look at the total cost of ownership. For example, competing mobile payment solutions can add 1% plus an additional .15 to .37 cents to the processing fees, which is well over $130 in extra fees for every $10,000 in credit card volume.
Sage is also helping SMBs increase sales via mobile payments while providing efficiencies by connecting Sage Mobile Payments and other point-of-sale (POS) terminals to Sage Exchange, Sage’s new integrated payments platform that automatically posts payments data in Sage’s accounting and ERP solutions and other third party software partners that are connected to Sage Exchange.
Sage Mobile Payments via Sage
FRX Service Pack 11 (R11670) for MAS 90 (Download)
February 3, 2011
You may have tried recently to download the latest FRX service pack 11 from Sage. Unfortunately as of January 31, 2011 Sage is no longer able to distribute service packs due to Microsoft (who publishes FRX) discontinuing sales of FRX (support however extends to December 2012).
If you need to download FRX 6.7 Service Pack 11 (aka R11670) you can navigate directly to the Microsoft Knowledgebase via the link below.
Download FRX Service Packs For MAS 90 and MAS 200:
FRX Service Pack 10
FRX Service Pack 11
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What Are The New Sage ERP MAS 90 and MAS 200 Maintenance Plans?
February 1, 2011
Sage have just rolled out a completely revamped line of support plans for their Sage ERP MAS 90 and 200 accounting software.
We’re still evaluating the major changes however so far we’ve seen:
- Silver plan now only includes 5 cases per year (was unlimited)
- Bronze plan has NO ACCESS to Sage support (was $300/case)
- Users who purchase over 5 users prior to 2003 and were grandfathered will begin to pay a per user license fee on licenses in excess if the initial 5 users – starting April 2011.
Since maintenance plans have changed – Sage will automatically update existing users’ plans according to the chart below so that the benefits and features remain similar.
If you have questions on how your Sage maintenance plan is calculated please contact your Sage Business Partner for assistance or you can also call the phone number listed on your Sage renewal and ask for them to provide you a breakdown of costs.
F9 for MAS90 Now Sold and Maintained Directly By Publisher Infor
February 1, 2011
You may have heard that F9 is now being marketed and sold (both new and maintenance renewals) directly by the software publisher, Infor, as opposed to the prior relationship where Sage handled all the ordering and maintenance invoicing.
Customers who have F9 installed may receive an email from Info prompting you to register your copy of F9 with them. From what we know the customer list of prior purchasers of F9 was not transferred to Infor when this relationship change happened.
If you’re using F9 you’ll be able to contact your Sage Business Partner directly (provided they’ve opted to resell F9 through Info) or you can use the link below to register your copy of F9.
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