Sage 200 Business Intelligence

The cost and complexity of business intelligence applications has often been felt to be beyond the reach of many smaller companies.  However, Sage 200 Business Intelligence software is provided free for an unlimited number of users with the Sage 200 Platform and is easy to use through its seamless integration within the Sage data and useability standards.  With Sage 200 Business Intelligence you can easily;

  • Extract meaningful, timely intelligence from your data
  • Identify historical trends and pinpoint areas of inefficiency
  • Save time producing routine and ad hoc reports
  • See a 360° view of your business, from sales and marketing figures, to stock and suppliers
  • Quickly identify and investigate anomalies
  • Produce professional, presentation-standard reports and dashboards
  • Save time by eliminating the manual exporting and copying of data
  • Inform strategic decisions allowing you to make faster, better informed and confident decisions
  • Carry out reporting and analysis using familiar Microsoft Excel
  • Handle large datasets as your requirements grow, through the scalability of Microsoft SQL Server Analysis
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The strongest benefit of Sage 200 Business Intelligence is without doubt the powerful ‘data cubes’ it provides. A cube is a set of data which uses pre-calculated measures and dimensions - enabling every available view of your financial and commercial data. The powerful data cubes coupled with the out-of-the-box reports, and easy to use report wizard and layout editor, mean that you can decide which data you want and how you want to analyse that data to meet your own individual requirements.

Sage 200 Business Intelligence comes with five financial data cubes and eight commercial data cubes (see brochure for details).

Sage 200 Business Intelligence Brochure

  

Our Services

We offer a full suite of Sage 200 services covering;

  • Software Sales - Dayta Designs is a Sage Business Partner and is authorised to sell Sage 200 software modules.
  • Project Scoping - working with the customer to match the needs of their business to the capabilities of the Sage 200 software.  This will result in the confirmation of which functionality should be implemented and where bespoke development needs exist, if any.  This will be documented in a fully priced project proposal document.
  • Project Implementation - we have developed a tried and trusted implementation approach for Sage 200 projects, as follows;
    • Kick-Off Meeting - working with the customer we agree task responsibilities, the project timetable and staff training needs.
    • Data Migration Assessment & Testing - one of the first tasks in a Sage 200 implementation project is to define the ‘ease’ with which historic data can be migrated into the Sage environment.  Tackling this first allows the project team to make certain configuration decisions earlier than otherwise which can save time and project risk.  It also allows the customer to enact any data cleansing activity ahead of the need for the live data. If required, Dayta Designs can develop bespoke applications to help migrate data.
    • Sage Software Installation - the Sage 200 software is installed on a server and the administration configured, including setting up users.
    • Sage Software Configuration - working with the customer’s project team, we will configure the various elements of the Sage 200 software.  This stage typically takes 1-2 days, but varies greatly by complexity.
    • Bespoke Developments - if required, bespoke developments are undertaken in parallel to the Sage Software Configuration stage.
    • Key User Functionality Step-Through & Testing - once the main configuration settings have been implemented, key users are stepped-through the system functionality to ensure that the settings are correct and that no adverse  ’ripple’ consequences have been created.
    • End-User Training - users not involved in the implementation project are now trained using the final system configuration.
    • Live Data Migration - the live data from the historic system can now be migrated into the new Sage 200 environment by whatever means have been defined during the earlier assessment and testing phase.  The historic system is typically archived at this point and no longer used for live transactions, though it may still be required for reporting purposes.
    • Go Live - once the data is loaded and has been quality assured, the Sage 200 system can go live and be used for all future transactions. Dayta Designs project staff will be on customer site for the go live day.
    • Project Review Meeting - after about 3 months of live running the project team re-assemble to review its status.   System changes can be discussed and scheduled if needed.
  • Telephone Support - once the Sage 200 system has gone live it will be fully supported by Dayta Designs through our comprehensive telephone support service.  The fee for the first 12 months of support is normally included in the project implementation pricing.
  • Bespoke Development - Dayta Designs is a Development Partner of Sage and is approved to undertake bespoke software developments within the Sage 200 environment, whether we implemented the Sage 200 system or not.
  • Bespoke Business Intelligence Training - we can help train your staff to get the best from the Sage 200 Business Intelligence software, either original training or top-up training.