What is BI?
According to Wikipedia, ‘Business intelligence(BI) mainly refers to computer-based techniques used in identifying, extracting and analyzing business data, such as sales revenue by-products and/or departments, or by associated costs and incomes.’
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The Sage 500 (formerly Accpac) GL account Roll-up function creates relationships between accounts that can be used for classification, budgeting, and reporting. Creating a relationship between accounts lets you consolidate (roll-up) account balances to provide a summary balance similar to the consolidation options provided in Financial Reporter.
Once the Roll-up accounts are setup, you can quickly view roll-up balances on screen without having to generate financial statements.
Here is an example of Roll-up function,
Individual account balances view:
Roll-up account balances view:
Setting up roll-up feature is very simple. Follow these 3 steps.
1. Go to chart of accounts & double click on the header account
2. Turn on roll-up function
3. Go to Roll-up tab and add member accounts, Save and exit.
Contact BAASS if you need any help setting this up.
**Please note This feature is available in Sage ACCPAC 500 edition only.**
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In our first blog of the series Are you getting 100% from your ERP System, we discussed Sage CRM and all of the benefits of integrating it to your Sage 300 ERP, (Formerly known as Sage ERP Accpac). Today I am going to discuss the integrated reporting program SAI (Sage Accpac Intelligence).
If you are running version 5.6 or 6.0 then you already own SAI so make sure you are putting it to use!
Quickbooks provided the basic bookkeeping capabilities you needed to start your company. But you have grown and now your relationship is strained. You have more customers, more employees and more complexity. In short, your business isn't so small anymore and the spark is gone.
