How is Sage 50 Business Intelligence different from Microsoft® Excel® and Sage 50 Accounting?
Sage 50 Business Intelligence is a comprehensive reporting program, that allows you to access all your business information in one centralized location. Microsoft Excel provides an easy-to-use interface and Sage 50 Accounting reporting gives you access to all your financial, sales, inventory, payroll and projects information. Sage 50 Business Intelligence takes the best of both these worlds and combines them into one complete business intelligence product, making it easier to access and interpret your business information - so that you can focus on making better and faster business decisions.
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Formatting & Customization
| Unlimited ability to format reports |
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| Customize reports from scratch and save for future use |
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| Customize, manipulate, and distribute information in a Microsoft® Excel® environment |
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| Easily show or hide Sage 50 Accounting fields |
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| Add Sage 50 Accounting fields into reports easily |
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| Fully customizable pre-built report templates |
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| Link to data source and save report for future use |
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| Format report data without exporting |
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Sorting & Filtering
| Filter report data |
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| Group and ungroup data in one click |
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| Sort report data |
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| View data in different ways via pre-built Microsoft® Excel® Pivot Tables |
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| Easily add total and subtotal amounts |
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| Easily convert between summary and detail reports |
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| Ready-to-use filter parameters |
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| Ready-to-use sort parameters |
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Report Automation
| Share reports over the network |
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| Ready-to-use reports that automatically link to Sage 50 Accounting data |
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| Schedule report execution |
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| Generate real-time reports with data from Sage 50 Accounting and other databases |
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| Ready to use business dashboard for a summary of business KPIs’ |
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Database Connectivity
| Connect to the Sage 50 Accounting database automatically, and access real-time data from source |
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| Report on data from multiple databases simultaneously, including non Sage 50 Accounting databases4 |
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| Automatically refresh report data in templates |
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| Access all fields in Sage 50 Accounting4 |
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Security
| Report level security |
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| User level security |
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| Securely share reports over the network |
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