Sage Accpac Insight

Sage Accpac Insight is an enterprise-wide reporting, budgeting, and consolidations application, ideal for employees in remote offices and disparate departments who need to manage, distribute, and collaborate from a single, unified source. It allows you to quickly capture and integrate information into meaningful reports and securely distribute them across your entire enterprise on demand.

With Sage Accpac as your accounting foundation, you can use Sage Accpac Insight to enhance your business intelligence with sophisticated, customizable budgets, analytics, and reports. The possibilities from this leading business intelligence solution include:

• Sales analyses
• Interactive, bottom-up budgets
• Charts and graphs
• Budget variance reports
• Any kind of report, budget, or analysis you would normally build on a spreadsheet

 

Crystal Xcelcius

Xcelsius 2008 is the first and only dynamic and customizable data visualization software that enables users of different skill levels to create insightful and engaging dashboards from any data source with point-and-click ease. Xcelsius 2008 offers a comprehensive set of new features and integrations with Crystal Reports 2008, BusinessObjects Enterprise XI 3.0, and other market-leading products—making it easier than ever to put the power of relevant intelligent information into the hands of business users.

Sage ERP comes with its own built in Xcelsius dashboards. Or create your own.

Alchemex

Alchemex Management Pack: Experience enhanced productivity, performance and presentation with automated monthly management packs. ALCHEMEX will minimise manual, repetitive work done in Excel. The data resides in a secure source and feeds into pre-formatted Excel reports upon request. Drill down capabilities allow for detailed transactions to be accessed with the click of a mouse

Alchemex Management Dashboard: Driving a business to success is easier when the company’s vitals are readily available in a dashboard style view. ALCHEMEX consolidates data from multiple sources and generates a graphical representation of real-time data in Excel, particularly useful for providing management and executives with an overview of the business. Detailed transactions can be viewed at the click of a mouse

Alchemex Olap Module: Analyse transactional data across finance, sales, inventory and other modules, utilising Excel to browse cubes and identify trends in large volumes of data

Alchemex Web Module: Deliver authenticated web reporting across intranets or the internet, using the familiar face of Excel as a viewer, Colleagues, clients, partners and suppliers can access one accurate version of the report anywhere in the world without compromising security

Orchid Information Manager

Business Intelligence for Sage Accpac ERP

Developed by Orchid Systems, Information Manager opens the power of Business Intelligence for mid-market companies, without programming and complex customization. It allows you to create custom data structures within your Accpac database (Information Sets) and generate data cubes for multidimensional analysis. Capture any number of budgets and forecasts for virtually any combination of Accpac data. Like all breakthroughs, it is simple and intuitive. If you want to record extra information, analyse your ERP data or prepare forecasts or budgets, Information Manager opens your horizon, frees you from the limitations of your standard Accpac data.

Report at the level you define with the combination of dimensions and facts you specify, using financial, non-financial and your own custom data. With the freedom to create and use the data you need, Information Manager lets you create new fields (facts) and link them through to multiple Accpac master files (dimensions) and gives you the power to use this information in many ways. Manage KPI’s, budgets, forecasts, actual results and non financial data at any level.Information Manager lets you specify Information Sets to store custom data and relate that custom data to existing Accpac master files and your own custom data. This data can be used in many ways.

Key Benefits to Using Info Manager

• Flexible Budget, forecast and Information framework to match your reporting requirements.
• Centralized repository of budget, forecast and additional sundry data, that can be backed up along with your standard Accpac data
• Secure, multi-user and controlled access to critical data
• Document what changes have been made to the budgets and why
• Link documents to Accpac data
• Use Microsoft Excel for data collection, reporting and write back
• No need to maintain multiple databases or data marts containing information not found in Accpac
• Reporting off Accpac’s optional tables is a breeze. Optional fields become columns, so there is no need for Crystal subreports or left outer joins
• Powerful business intelligence without the expense. Your Accpac data becomes meaningful information which can be analysied on the fly
• On-screen popup alerts providing users with relevant information when capturing standard Accpac data
• Ability to assign users to roles, and grant varied access to note types by role, separating notes by function
• Easy access to custom Crystal Reports and Financial Reports
• Reports grouped logically by function or process with flexible parameters – finders, date pickers, check boxes, period pickers – and hiding irrelevant parameters
• Save report parameters to enable quick re-running of reports
• Save report runs for future access

Key Features of Info Manager

• Each Information Set can be defined with up to 10 Accpac views (Dimensions).
• Create your own Information Sets which are not linked to existing views.
• Define an unlimited number of fields per Information Set.
• Attach a link of a file to an Accpac view key field combination (e.g. attach a picture to an item, a contract to a customer or a spreadsheet containing budget calculations).
• A base to record extra data to facilitate Accpac Customization through VBA.
• Full audit trail of budget revisions / changes with descriptive notes.
• Developed in the Accpac SDK.
• No redundancy or duplication of data.
• Compatible with Sage Accpac ERP 100, 200 and 500.
• Runs on all databases supported by Accpac.
• Accpac look and feel.
• Standard Accpac security, customization capabilities, import/export, data integrity checking and more!
• Microsoft Excel® Add-in to read and write the data back into Information Manager from within Microsoft Excel®.
• Information Manager’s analyser turns your information sets into OLAP cubes allowing you to ‘slice & dice’ and analyse your data in real time, on or offline!

Minimum Requirements
Information Manager requires Accpac’s Transactional Analysis and Optional Field Creator module to create Information Sets to store extra information in Accpac. Information Manager Version 5.4 will work with any Sage Accpac ERP Version 5.4 core module or any third party module which is both compatible with version 5.4 and developed in the Accpac SDK.