Sage Pastel brings enterprise facilities to the
SME
[Johannesburg, 1 August 2005] - With the launch of Sage Pastel’s 2005 range of
accounting applications aimed at the SME market, the leading accounting software
provider has made good on its promise to deliver a technology that goes way
beyond accounting.
“Customers are accustomed to Sage Pastel providing them with accounting
solutions targeted specifically at the needs of SMEs, but often we find that
businesses don’t truly maximse their accounting data beyond the usual trial
balance, income statement, age analysis reports and so on,” says Jeff Lewis,
Director of Sage Pastel. “In the Sage Pastel 2005 range we have provided users
with the means to handle their accounts in the most efficient manner possible,
as well as additional functionality in the Business Intelligence Centre to slice
and dice their financial data without a degree in business analytics.
“In the past, only large companies could afford the business intelligence (BI)
software and skills to effectively analyse their data. Smaller companies were
left to sort out their own information needs while vendors concentrated on
serving the enterprise market. Sage Pastel 2005’s Business Intelligence Centre
changes all that.”
Using an application most users are familiar with, Microsoft Excel, Sage Pastel
has made the add-on Business Intelligence Centre module available to users of
Sage Pastel Partner 2005 and Sage Pastel Evolution. Instead of having to
manipulate accounting reports by cutting and pasting, or importing data into
costly third party applications, financial information can be viewed directly in
Excel.
This functionality allows users to examine their data from any angle and drill
down to any specific information they choose without needing any technical
skills.
Some of the standard BI reports users can call up include:
Management Pack: Income Statements, Balance Sheets, etc.
Sales Information: The ability to manipulate your sales data to highlight
patterns and trends
Inventory: Top ten sales items amongst many other reports
Graphical analysis of sales and financial data
The Business Intelligence Centre module does not however only allow customers to
use Excel as an information analysis tool; it offers complete integration
between Sage Pastel and Excel. This makes it easy for users to write automated
Excel reports and analyse their live accounting data. In addition, it also
allows users to save the steps they take in selecting the data for their reports
as well as the final format they choose.
The benefits users of the Business Intelligence Centre will experience include:
Enhanced business information: up-to-date, advanced and professional looking
reports in the format you want.
Man days of time savings every month: with a click of a button, it’s quick and
easy.
Monthly financials with drill down to ledger detail: the monthly management pack
can be automated with drill down to transaction level.
Business Intelligence Centre Online Community: Pastel Cover customers who
purchase this add-on module can download a growing collection of Standard Report
templates.
End user empowerment: reduce your dependency on IT personnel to deliver on the
company’s reporting requirements. Simply enhance the Excel skills already in
place.
“Sage Pastel, with its in-depth knowledge of its customers was well positioned
to deliver a product designed specifically for use in the SME market,” adds
Lewis. “It took a lot of research to develop a product that could provide such
in-depth intelligence without a complex user interface, but providing the
benefits of BI to the SME market was a task Sage Pastel was determined to do
right and to do BI first.”
Sage Pastel is the leading supplier of accounting and business management
applications and products are currently sold in more than 50 countries. The
software is available in 6 different languages including Dutch, English, Danish,
German, Icelandic and Portuguese.
For more information please visit the Sage Pastel website on www.sagepastel.com
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