Sage Accpac Accounting Software Vancouver Blog – Unisoft

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• Company Dashboard in Sage CRM v7.1 SP1 – How to choose which default screen to land on – Company Summary or Company Dashboard ?

Why is Sage selling a Microsoft product?  These days the tech industry is all about coopetition; a basic principle described in Game Theory by John Nash where competitive companies cooperate. “What is best for the group is best for an individual in the group”.

Microsoft SQL has become the database of choice for Sage ERP Accpac, and many other Sage products, as it is fast and efficient.  What more details?  Talk to our techy, programmer, IT Ninja Matt@Unisoft.net and he will chat your ear off for days about why this combination provides superior environment. Ask him about Accpac with Pervasive or just about any other DB and you might as well run for the hills. So what is the deal anyways…

Sage is reintroducing Sage ERP Accpac with Microsoft SQL Server 2008 R2 Runtime Edition (available for 32-Bit and 64-Bit) with a new competitive pricing model. This comes bundled with Sage ERP Accpac and its related applications and the capability is guaranteed.

Any of our Sage Accpac clients that would like to migrate from one of the competitive databases listed below is now able to for the low, low price of $75/CAL!

Competitive Databases: IBM, Oracle, Sybase, FoxPro, Pervasive, MySQL and ProvideX

Any new client can purchase the bundled Microsoft SQL Runtime Edition for Sage ERP Accpac for $175 per user CAL. For customers with 30 or more users, the “Per Processor” license is more cost effective. Per Processor licensing is now $5,000.

MS-SQL CAL	$175
MS-SQL CAL Competitive Upgrade *	$75
Per Processor	$5,000

* Business Care on all Competitive Upgrade CALs are based on the Full Cost of $175/CAL.

  What you need to know about the Microsoft SQL Server Runtime version:  

• Is MS-SQL Server 2008 R2 Standard Edition bundled with the Sage ERP Accpac.
• Can be used for Sage ERP Accpac, SageCRM, any other Sage Accpac-related applications, and any application integrating with Sage ERP Accpac.
• Is technically identical to the full MS-SQL Server 2008 R2 Standard Edition including all the same database administration tools and same performance with no restrictions on database size.
• Is NOT the same as the free MS-SQL Express edition.
• Has restricted use rights and terms that can only be used for Sage Accpac-related applications or any application that is integrated with Sage ERP Accpac or SageCRM.

If you have any other questions, please contact Scott@Unisoft.net / 604-926-3398 or refer to the new FAQ document.

Join us for the Sage ERP Accpac 6.0 Experience on Tuesday, May 17, 2011 in Vancouver, BC.

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Sage ERP Accpac has been a smart choice for the management of your business. It provides best-in-class products that allow you to extend the reach of your business. Join us at this seminar to see how the latest release, Version 6.0 will help you further expand your business horizons. You will see a live demonstration of the new functionality, including how you can:

• Enable collaboration, mobility and interoperability
• Improve productivity
• Envision success
• Get the information you need, faster
• Accelerate growth and lower total cost of ownership
• Save time on month-end processes

Click here for more info or here to register

Sage North America is part of The Sage Group plc (LON:SGE); a leading supplier of business management software worldwide. Sage North America began not as one company, but as the efforts of many entrepreneurs who built their successful products and businesses with sincere focus on their customers. Today, Sage represents the culmination of that combined entrepreneurial spirit, drive and vision.

For more than 30 years, companies that have joined the Sage family have assisted small and midsized businesses with a wide range of business management applications and services. With roots reaching back to the 1970s, Sage has grown and developed to meet the evolving needs of our customers through a combination of internal product development and acquisition.

Currently Sage supports more than 3.2 million customers in the U.S. and Canada. Sage’s sole focus is to provide business management software and services to small and midsized businesses. Sage applications cover a full range of business requirements including accounting, customer relationship management, contact management, human resources, warehouse management, specialized industry needs, among many others.
Sage’s parent company, The Sage Group, plc, is a world-leading supplier of accounting and business management software to small and midsized businesses. Sage’s purpose is to help our customers run their businesses more effectively, helping them to gain greater insight into their business activities and providing them with lasting benefits by automating their business processes.

Important Facts about Sage:
1. More than 3.2 million North American business customers currently rely on Sage Applications
2. reported US$2.24 billion in revenue in 2010
3. 25 years in existence and with 13,400 employees worldwide
4. provider of business management software and services to over 6.3 million small and midsize enterprises (SMEs) worldwide
5. 28,000 business partners and 40,000 accountants’ club members
6. 27% of profit invested into continued product development

Read more about Sage at www.sage.com.

Going Lean and Green with Document Management for Sage Accpac ERP 

How much money did your company spend on paper last year? How much on storing that paper? How much time do you spend searching for documents? 

Document management solutions encompass the electronic capture, retrieval and processing of documents, and have seen a surge in adoption, fueled both by the necessity of today’s volatile business environment as well as the corporate benefits gained by being socially responsible and environmentally conscious. 

With an integrated solution such as doc-link™ by Altec, documents can be accessed from within Sage Accpac ERP, eliminating the need to go back and forth between two solutions and minimizing disruptions.    

 

Reduced Costs	Storage, handling, reproduction of lost document and purchasing of fireproof cabinets add up quickly.
Minimize Your Environmental Impact	Decreased paper consumption = less trees cut down, less fuel burned in deliver, less ink used, less of everything…
Increase Workflow Efficiency	Do you often find yourself leaving your desk to sort through a file cabinet on the other side of the office just to find a document? Then having to type out part of that document so that you can pass on the information? You and your staff will save time retrieving, processing and passing information along.
Reduced Risk	Your files are kept safe, not only through limiting access but also from misplacement, loss, fire and flood!
Remote Access	For those employees on the road, working from home or in satellite offices.

  Going green leads to getting lean, which makes good sense (cents). 

 “Manage the Process… NOT the Paper”
doc-link™ an Integrated Document Management for Sage Accpac ERP 

Next Webinar: 10 am on September 15th, 2010

  To register for the webinar or for more information please call or email: Scott Smith | 604-926-3398 | Scott@Unisoft.net. 

Recently we added two new videos to our video section on our site:

What’s New in Sage Accapc ERP 5.5 Fiancials?

This video basically covers System Manager, General Ledger, Accounts Payable, Accounts Receivable and Bank/Tax Services.

What’s New in Sage Accpac ERP 5.5 Operations?

Operations suite video shows thew new features in Order Entry, Inventory Control and Purchase Order as well as the improved integration of these modules with PJC, AP and AR.

Overall the Sage Accpac v5.5 release is a good move in the right direction for Sage Accpac, it was part of the Sage Accpac Extended Enterprise Suite which is essentially a complete business software solutions including ERP (accounting) and CRM (Customer Relationship Management) along with some analytical dashboards.  Also, a number of optional modules (AR Inquiry, Customer Number Change, etc.) purchased separtely before are now part of the suite if you purchase the associated core modules.

I wrote an article a while back about how to use the Sage Accpac data integrity check tool but did not include anything about how to analyze the reports generated from the data integrity check. As a consultant I have been asked many times from very worried customers why their data integrity check report is showing errors. In data integrity checks reports their are two different types of errors:

• Type 1 errors are data errors and need to be dealt with immediately as the represent damage or corrupted data. An example would be an corrupted data file that can’t be accessed by your data engine.
• Type 2 errors are accounting errors and can be quite normal but you should pay attention to these types of errors. An example of a type 2 error would be missing item number or order number.

It should be quite obvious to tell the difference between the two.  Again type 1 are almost alyways serious and should be dealt with immediately while type 2 can be serious but most times can be left alone or attended to at a later date. At Unisoft, we find it good practice to run the data integrity check once a month and try to fix any errors on an ongoing basis. 

Recently reviewed by The CPA Technology Advisor the 200 edition of Sage Accpac ERP 5.4 received 5 stars out of a possible 5.  The review is mid-range accounting systems and bases it’s assement on 6 categories:

1. Ease of Use/Transaction Entry – 5/5
2. Modules & Notable Features - 5/5
3. Integration/Import/Export – 5/5
4. Reporting – 5/5
5. Support/Training/Help System – 5/5
6. Relative Value – 5/5

Sage Accpac ERP got 5/5 for every category which is no surprise to Unisoft, an organization that has been dealing with accouting systems since 1989. One notable part of the review was the relative value where they stated that:

“Sage Accpac 200 ERP is an excellent product for companies that have outgrown their current software. The scalability of Sage Accpac with its three versions means that an investment in the product today will easily pay for itself over time.”

This is outstanding considering the other systems it was compared to including QuickBooks.  It also goes back to my article I wrote about outgrowing your current accounting system and moving to Sage Accpac as it is extremely scalable and according to this review, worth it’s value.

Today TPAC (Third Party Advantage Conference) 2007 started today with the preconference. Unisoft attended Norming Software Intl training sessions on Norming eTimesheet and Norming Asset Management. Norming Software Intl is based in Beigjing and has produced a number of third party products that integrate with Sage Accpac ERP. 

Norming eTimesheet is a web based job planning, time and leave tracking, expense reporting and billing software suite that the fully integrates with Sage Accpac ERP. It also integrates with almost any other accounting system through it’s integration component. The technology is built on Microsoft’s .NET framework and has can use a number of database engines including MS SQL, Pervasive and Oracle. We look forward to hearing more from the Norming team. This was a great start to the Sage Accpac third party products and really shows the depth and flexibilty that can be achieved Sage Accpac ERP trhough the third party solutions giving business owners a complete end-to-end ERP system.