What’s New in 7.2?

Business Insights Dashboard
The new Business Insights Dashboard module keeps customers in charge of their business by channeling all the information they need into one convenient and powerful web dashboard solution. Business Insights Dashboard provides an unsurpassed level of knowledge management that consolidates critical personal, corporate, and external information and enables single-click access to analytical and collaborative tools. Using .NET technology, this customizable solution to information overload puts up-to-date sales statistics, key Sage MAS 500 data, industry news, and competitive intelligence at your fingertips.

In addition, new data views (Web Parts) can be easily created in Visual Studio.NET allowing customers to track almost any business scenario imaginable. By leveraging key performance indicators in their business, they can move from reactive to proactive—improving customer satisfaction as well. Each user has the ability to personalize their dashboard in addition to configuring various dashboard layouts for daily, weekly and other role based views.

Secured Content
The data view included with Business Insights Dashboard have been assigned individual task rights allowing administrators to set security for each KPI by company based on their appropriate role in the organization. The ability to modify the personal experience and to modify the global experience within the Dashboard is also securable through individual task rights.

Leverage the Power of Business Insights Explorer
As an added benefit to the powerful personalized dashboard capabilities, users of Business Insights Dashboard will also have access to Business Insights Explorer views directly from the browser. Based on their security profile defined within MAS 500, users will benefit from the powerful sorting, filtering, grouping and drill-down capabilities provided through the embedded grid without requiring a Sage MAS 500 client installation. This additional capability allows customers to grant Sage MAS 500 data access to other information workers within an organization at a fraction of the cost by purchasing additional Business Insights User licenses.

Data Import Manager
Built with .NET and SQL Server 2005 SSIS technology, database administrators can now configure one-time or regular scheduled imports into a wide variety of Sage MAS 500 transaction formats through a powerful mapping wizard. The mapping wizard provides the detailed knowledge of MAS 500 including required fields, default validations and lookups while enabling the administrator to transform direct feeds from Sage MAS 90 or 200, ASCII, Delimited, Microsoft Access, Excel, SQL Server and XML data sources.

Administrators can schedule the SSIS package to run on a regular basis. Furthermore, developers can modify the final package by adding scripting for additional validations and other complex transformations.