New MAS500 Pricing Effective December 1, 2011
December 1, 2011
In the Sage ERP portfolio, Sage ERP MAS 500 is well positioned for companies too big for Sage
ERP MAS 90 and 200, but not ready for Sage ERP X3.
Feedback from Business Partners indicated that Sage ERP MAS 500 delivers the robust functionality required by mid-market distribution and manufacturing customers, but the current module based pricing is sometimes prohibitive in the 5-25 user range. As a result, Sage is pleased to announce the availability of new user based pricing bundles for Sage ERP MAS 500!
The new user based pricing bundles for Sage ERP MAS 500 are as follows:
Sage ERP MAS 500 7.4: What’s New? (pdf)
June 5, 2011
Sage have just posted a “What’s New” guide (PDF) for their MAS 500 version 7.4 release. Included in the new release are:
Sage ERP MAS Intelligence – A replacement for Microsoft FRX (which the company retired). Features a graphical interface, out-of-the box reporting, integration to data sources outside of Sage ERP MAS 500.
Business Insights Explorer – New capabilities include Landed Costs Transaction View, Units of Measure View, enhanced export option so you can export only the data displayed in the grid – or all data.
eBusiness Suite for Sage ERP MAS 500 – With version 7.4 Sage introduces replacement functionality for their retired eCustomer, eSalesforce and eOrder modules. The new functionality is eBusiness Suite for Sage ERP MAS 500 and is provides both B2B and B2C functionality within a browser based interface. Create an online storefront for customers, salespeople and customers service representatives. Includes full credit card compliance with latest security rules mandated by processing companies.
When functioning as a remote interface for Sage ERP MAS 500, users can view customer orders, shipments, invoices, payments and back-orders, making it the ideal solution for salespeople or customer service representatives who require a comprehensive overview of customer accounts to respond quickly to customer requests and follow up on orders or payments due.
Additional modules and features enhanced include Accounts Receivable, Sales Order, Landed Cost, Unit of Measure, Work Orders. Full details in the Sage ERP MAS 500 7.4 What’s New guide shown below.
http://www.scribd.com/fullscreen/57129813?access_key=key-2223urvdrqe4j8zkk9hi
Sage ERP MAS 90, MAS 200, MAS 500 Supported Versions [January 2011]
January 18, 2011
Sage have indicated their intention to support the current version of Sage ERP MAS 90 and 200 – plus two prior versions.
This support policy will kick in on September 30, 2011 when the following Sage ERP MAS 90 and 200 versions will no longer be supported by Sage Software:
Sage ERP MAS 90 and 200 version 4.00
Sage ERP MAS 90 and 200 version 4.05
Sage ERP MAS 90 and 200 version 4.10
In addition the following Sage ERP MAS 200 SQL versions will retire on 9/30/11:
Sage ERP MAS 200 SQL version 3.72
Sage ERP MAS 200 SQL version 3.73
Sage ERP MAS 200 SQL version 3.74
The following MAS500 version will retire on 9/30/11:
Sage ERP MAS 500 7.05
Via: Current Sage ERP MAS 90, 200 and 500 Supported versions
Sage Summit 2011 Social Media Sites
January 17, 2011
Thinking about attending Sage Summit 2011? This year’s conference hosted by Sage is geared toward both customers and consultants.
The game plan is for the consultants to roll in for the July 10-15, 2011 time period and the customers can arrive July 12-15. Once again a good time is promised to all (what’s not to love about a resort where it costs well under $5 to transfer from the airport to the front doorstep).
If you’re headed to Washington be sure you keep your ear to the ground to learn of everything that’s happening. All the usual suspects – Twitter, Facebook, Linkedin, YouTube will be buzzing with activity as the date nears.
Where do you go to find the Social Media buzz around Summit 2011?
Here is a list of all the social media sites for Sage Summit 2011.
Promote away!
Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/SageSummit
Twitter: http://twitter.com/Sage_Summit
LinkedIn: http://events.linkedin.com/Sage-Summit-2011/pub/506615
Flickr: http://www.flickr.com/photos/sage_summit/
YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/user/SageSummitEvent
Lest we forget my favorite memories of Sage conferences of the past….
And a Eddie Money from the Orlando conference entertainment:
Sage Summit 2011 Social Media Sites
Sage Common Payroll Announced For MAS200 SQL, MAS500, ABRA, ERP X3 and ACCPAC
October 22, 2010
Sage today made official that they’ll be rolling out a common payroll based on their SData communication protocol. This common payroll fills a hole in the Sage MAS 200 SQL release (due November 2010) where legacy (non 4.x standard modules which include payroll) cannot be used with the MAS 200 SQL release.
By creating a common payroll solution Sage hopes to cut down development costs that are soaring as the government continues to change employer tax laws. Each change in tax law requires Sage to update payroll (usually at the very end of the year when everyone is busiest), test the changes, and quickly distribute those upgrades to end users.
Under the Sage Common Payroll initiative the ACCPAC SQL Payroll will be used by at least four Sage products (ABRA SQL v10.1, MAS500 v7.3, ERP X3 v6.1, MAS200 SQL 4.45).
Integration levels will vary depending upon product with only Accpac and ABRA receiving level 3 or very robust integration.
Here’s Sage’s Official Announcement:
Common Payroll is the Sage ERP Accpac payroll module which has been enhanced to become a best-of-breed SQL Server-based payroll that can serve the needs of many of our Sage North America customers. With over 4000 payroll customers in the US and Canada, the Sage ERP Accpac payroll module has a strong track record of providing value to small and medium sized businesses.
Using Sage ERP Accpac payroll as the foundation and the new common sData communication protocol to facilitate connectivity, the new Common Payroll module will offer the tightest level of integration possible between payroll and all of our ERP solutions.
How will a Common Payroll support Sage’s strategy to maximize our assets and reduce redundancies? One example lies in the hundreds of new tax changes that are mandated each year. In 2009 there were more than 200 changes released and that number is expected to increase in 2010. To keep on top of these changes, Sage spends a great deal of money each year to maintain our 12 unique payroll modules, and in some cases, multiple versions for each product. Imagine how much we could accomplish by removing this redundancy of effort, provide the updates in a form that could be used by all our products, and instead leverage our resources to provide customers with greater value, such as new connected services. And because the payroll-related connected services such employee benefit services would only need to be developed once, it would mean they could be made available immediately to all our customers with little to no incremental effort required by individual product teams.
The Common Payroll initiative also supports our goal for providing an Extraordinary Customer Experience as we focus our efforts on developing a single best-of-breed solution that surpasses the functionality and ease of use found in our current payroll modules. This new, unified payroll module will not only scale as a business grows, but if a customer needs to upgrade to another Sage ERP (enterprise resource planning) product, the payroll data will seamlessly migrate.
Common Payroll integration will soon be on the roadmaps for many of our other products, so stay tuned for details. You can rest assured that the native payroll module will continue to be enhanced, sold and supported for those products where it doesn’t make sense to adopt a common payroll.
The Common Payroll integration is an important step toward achieving our objectives and providing your clients with greater value. Projects like Common Payroll not only generate substantial savings and leverage best practices, but enable us to deliver a common experience to our mutual clients.
Sage Payment Services Receives Final PCI-DSS Certification Paperwork
September 15, 2010
Sage Payment Services had officially completed all their credit card compliance testing well in advance of the July 1, 2010 deadline for the software to be certified. However due to backlogs in processing paperwork the final certification documents had been pending.
Here is the latest certification – as of 9/4/2010 – showing Sage Payments as PCI-DSS compliance. If needed print the following and provide it to anyone requesting proof that your Sage Payment Services credit card processing is PCI-DSS compliant.
Note: If you have trouble viewing the PDF below use this link to download the VISA PCI-DSS document.
ACH Electronic Payment For MAS 90 Accounts Payable – New In V4.4
July 24, 2010
Sage just released a new Product Update #2 for Sage MAS 90 and MAS 200. In my opinion one of the top features in this update is the ability to pay accounts payable invoices electronically.
Many times our clients have employee expense checks that are sent out weekly, bi-weekly, monthly or even a few times a week. The employees who receive those checks often are sometimes not in the office which requires the to be mailed.
This introduces delays, increased postage cost and extra administrative time spent stuffing envelopes. Sure this may not be a big issue for those with two or three employees. Ramp the number of employees up to 100 or more — and suddenly you have a potential administrative time sink.
The newest release of Sage MAS 90 and MAS 200 – which is available for download to those on the Basic Maintenance plan — adds ACH electronic processing. If you’ve used the Direct Deposit for Payroll – the ACH for accounts payable works nearly identically.
Unlike older versions of ACH for Accounts Payable – this updated feature allows you to create your own customized export of data so that if a bank needs a feed adjusted to fit their required layout you have the ability to do this yourself without hiring a programmer.
Sage has a nice 6 minute vide that showcases the ACH for Accounts Payable.
We can install and configure this during your upgrade – and help you manage the first few exports of data to your bank. Of course we have clients who have been doing this for years and we are happy to connect our clients to those already using the enhancement to get direct feedback on their experiences.
PS - I noticed after composing this article that I mistakenly pasted in the YouTube from last night’s Lou Gramm concert at Mohegan Sun. The video you want of the ACH for MAS 90 is here.
Enjoy Lou Gramm performing Jukebox Hero live at Mohegan Sun 7/23/2010 (former lead singer of Foreigner).
Search your MAS 90, MAS 200, MAS 500, SalesLogix and Accpac Database With z.Find
May 12, 2010
Ever wish there was a way to quickly search your Sage ERP and CRM database without having to go through multiple lookup screens?
z.Find from Escape Velocity Systems uses a Google-type search to quickly locate data within your ERP or CRM database without the need to hunt from report to report or inquiry to inquiry.
You can search multiple databases as well as link in mulitiple non-ERP/CRM sources.
The product works with:
Sage MAS 90 and MAS 200 (pricing TBD)
Sage MAS 500 ($6,000 plus $2,000 recurring maintenance)
Sage Accpac
Sage SalesLogix
Third Party Applications and Customizations
z.find search for MAS 90, MAS 200, MAS 500, Accpac, SalesLogix
More information – and a recorded demonstration – can be found on the Escape Velocity web site linked below.
Press Release:
EVS Launches z.Find for Sage MAS 500 ERP, Sage SalesLogix, Sage MAS 90 ERP and Sage AccPac ERP
Boulder, CO– Escape Velocity Systems, Inc. (EVS), a Boulder, Colorado based ERP innovation group announced today the launch of the z.Find now publicly available for Sage MAS 500 ERPand Sage SalesLogix. EVS also announced today the beginning of the z.Find beta program for Sage MAS 90 ERP. Development work is in progress on z.Find for Sage Accpac as well.
The z.Find is a search application that brings the first ever Google-type search capabilities to Sage ERP products. From a single interface, z.Find can return information that resides in multiple databases, third party add-ons or customized tables. “z.Find breaks away from the traditional, structured way of finding data in an ERP by tearing down the walls between modules and systems,” states Evan Garber, President of EVS.
EVS also announces that the z.Find application can be purchased, downloaded, deployed, and updated directly from the z.AppStore. “The experience of adding functionality to your existing ERP solution should be fast and easy; delivery through our z.AppStore makes that possible,” comments Garber.
EVS was formed in 2001 to combine specific industry knowledge and expertise with industry changing innovation and technology. The company’s focus is to create tools that enable mid-market enterprises to have a better, more effective experience with their ERP.
For more information, visit www.evs-sw.com or contact sales@evs-sw.com.
z.Find – Escape Velocity Systems
What’s New in MAS90 Product Update 1?
April 7, 2010
Sage Software is now issuing Product Updates on a regular basis for their latest MAS90 and MAS200 version 4.4 accounting software.
While in the past these were called service updates and primarily included bug fixes and patches – the new Product Updates will also include new functionality.
Product Update 1 for Sage MAS 90 & MAS 200 has just been released March 29, 2010 and here’s the complete listing of what’s new.
MAS90 4 4 Product Update 1 – What’s New March ’10
MAS 500 7.3 Gets Native Avalara Sales Tax Processing Code – Eases Upgrade Process
March 23, 2010
Avalara announced yesterday that their Sales Tax for MAS 500 (aka Sage Sales Tax) now has the code embedded into the MAS 500 version 7.3 release.
Sales tax processing embedded in MAS 500 allows for the user to receive accurate tax computations on each order that’s processed through the system. The monthly or quarterly sales tax returns can also be processed for any state – with resulting forms transmitted to the appropriate state.
Sales tax processing is the type of procedure that most companies take for granted — until challenged on an audit. With states increasingly under pressure to raise revenues it’s increasingly likely that more audit resources will be deployed to verify that companies are charging and collecting proper amounts of sales tax.
According to Sage,
Sage MAS 500 and Sage Sales Tax developers worked together and added code (hooks) specifically for Sage Sales Tax in the base MAS 500 code for 7.3. This was done so users who installed Sage Sales Tax for MAS 500 7.3 would not have to obtain updates from Avalara each time MAS 500 released a Monthly Update.
Avalara (www.avalara.com), the leading provider of Web-based sales tax automation and compliance solutions, announced today that Sage Sales Tax, Powered by AvaTax™, is now embedded within the code base of Sage MAS 500, beginning with version 7.3. Sage’s award winning research and development team led the integration effort to address significant customer demand and to enhance customer experience.
“This is a major endorsement from one of the industry’s most highly regarded providers of ERP and other business applications”
“Sage Sales Tax, Powered by AvaTax, is a great example of how Sage is executing on our strategy to deliver hosted services that make the most sense for our customers,” said Alan Bryant, Sage senior vice president. “Integrating key hosted, SaaS, and other cloud-based service offerings into Sage’s on-premise business applications gives our customers the best of both worlds.”
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