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| « Back | July 2010 |
Extended Enterprise Suite
The newly released Sage MAS 90 Extended Enterprise Suite Version 1.4 is designed to provide businesses with an end-to-end solution that helps you coordinate your whole business, from customer-facing systems, such as sales and service, through back-office processes, including accounting and project management, to core activities, such as manufacturing and engineering.
What Is Extended Enterprise Suite?
For existing Sage MAS 90 customers, upgrading to the Extended Enterprise Suite adds SageCRM and Fixed Assets to your system. SageCRM is a great productivity tool for your sales and marketing staff, but the benefits go beyond customer-facing teams. The integration of data across all of your business processes can transform your business as your staff works together more effectively and harmoniously. Your employees can access a more concise, accurate and complete view of your customers in every interaction, including sales and marketing, order dispatch, project management and credit control. Time previously spent re-entering data is saved and accuracy is improved. Your team is able to accurately identify customer requirements and fulfill them quickly and profitably.
Finance Benefits From CRM
Integration with your financial system allows accounting staff to access the critical customer information usually held within the sales department, enabling them to resolve issues and queries promptly. Overdue funds can be reduced, as your credit and collections and sales teams have the same financial information that enables them to collect outstanding debt.
Effective Process Management
The Extended Enterprise Suite supports you in managing the entire process of customer acquisition, from initial marketing campaigns and lead generation, through the process of quoting and winning the order, and finally to fulfillment and customer service.
Fixed Assets
The Extended Enterprise Suite also includes the Fixed Assets module. If you are still tracking your equipment in a spreadsheet, it is likely you are missing some important opportunities to save money. Here are some examples of potential cost savings:
- Taxes: The Fixed Assets module is updated as tax laws and depreciation rules change, allowing you to avoid penalties and take advantage of tax savings.
- Property Taxes: Avoid overpayment of state and local personal property taxes for lost, stolen or-out-of-service fixed assets.
- Insurance: Avoid paying premiums on lost, stolen or-out-of-service assets and ensure that expensive new equipment is covered.
- Budget: The Fixed Asset module can tell you the useful life of particular asset types, and allow you to purchase at the best time of year for depreciation purposes.
- Disaster Recovery: When disaster strikes, an accurate schedule of assets can help you receive full and prompt insurance payments.
- Opportunity Costs: Save hours spent on tax research or depreciation computations, and direct the attention of accounting staff toward other critical assignments.
Existing Sage MAS 90 users can upgrade to the Extended Enterprise Suite for a per-user fee. Please give call us for details.
Please contact one of our Clifton Gunderson Technology Solutions professionals for all of your business technology needs.
The information contained herein is general in nature and is not intended, and should not be construed, as legal, accounting, or tax advice or opinion provided by Clifton Gunderson LLP to the reader. The reader also is cautioned that this material may not be applicable to, or suitable for, the reader’s specific circumstances or needs, and may require consideration of non-tax and other tax factors if any action is to be contemplated. The reader should contact his or her Clifton Gunderson LLP or other tax professional prior to taking any action based upon this information. Clifton Gunderson LLP assumes no obligation to inform the reader of any changes in tax laws or other factors that could affect the information contained herein.
