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About time!
Interesting comment:
"The days of proprietary reporting and analysis tools are dead. We need to leverage the skills and tools we have, which are based around Excel."
Companies like Access Accounts and Exchquer and latterly Pegasus recognised that years ago, and have had solutions available for a long time.
Dont agree on the previous comment regarding pricing though - it sounds great value for money, when you consider the payback in time saved / information gained.
Well done to Sage for finally recognising what everyone else knew!
John Clough
BDO Stoy Hayward LLP
www.bdo.co.uk
Endorse Mark Gauden's Comment
Sage plc just charge too much for a very mediocre accounting solution.There are a number of accounting applications which include crystal reports with their application at Sage Line 50's level.Simply Accounting is one and if users take time to learn how to use Crystal Reports they could analyse accounting data in so many different ways and use excel with very powerful effect.
Pegasus already provide the Excel Add-in
As a Pegasus Gold partner we are showing the Excel ADD in Pegasus have developed for SageLine50!
For more info contact PCS Ltd 01675 470774 to book attendance at a Seminar at which it will be shown on 13th July 2005.
Seems a bit costly
Would any other accountancy software supplier feel justified / able to get away with charging £495 for an "add in" that, to me, is necessary to make good shortcomings in the reporting and export capabilities of their original accounting software package ?
Roll on the day when Microsoft launch business accounting software in the UK, and hopefully tax software too.
An old thread but the reporting on Sage 50 has not changed much (if at all) over this period. With the evolution of the cloud and other accounting platforms steaming ahead with online reporting and data capture, we set about the task of designing from the ground up, a reporting tool which bolts over the top of Sage 50, and brings the benefits of the cloud without needing to change systems.
Interesting to see our pricing is the same as Sage’s Business Intelligence platform at £495 or £45/month, some 12 years later. The key difference is that www.cascade.bi provides a cloud based solution, accessible anywhere, with no set up costs and it certainly isn’t just an excel spreadsheet!
For more info see www.cascade.bi