Well I hinted at this product back in June and now Sage have officially unvelied this in the UK. Of course I was speculating that this product is perhaps a successor to Line 500 but there is nothing to confirm this. In fact I believe Sage 1000 is still being actively developed so it will [...]

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If you work with VI contract costing chances are you need to run comaprisons of actual costs against initial and current estimates. This query will give you the initial costs and revenue for each contract grouped by expense code and expense group. If you look at the comment section you can change MIN to MAX [...]

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Having spent the best part of the last year on a single Sage 1000 site running multiple projects I have witnessed first hand the frustration of the CRM user experience. In fact so much so that my current client is now considering ripping out CRM and going back to good old Line 500.
Why? Simply because [...]

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I work in the dealer channel and closely with Sage VARs in the 500/1000 marketspace so can normally get wind of whispers/rumours of impending announcements. Of course not being a VAR but an independant consultant means I have no restrictions on what I can/cannot do or can/cannot say.
I heard mention the other day of a [...]

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Is it me or is CRM counter-productive? Not according to the company I have just been helping do a large scale Sage 1000 implementation for.  They want to rip it out and just stick to good old fin and ops. Why? Because the maintenance of customers (and now with version 2.2, suppliers) is just so [...]

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In case you didn’t already know the BDE group have gone into administration. As I am currently working on a project with some BDE professional services people I found about this early on Tuesday when it came to light that Sage have actually revoked BDE’s Sage reseller status. Things have quickly detoriated to the point [...]

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Following on from the last post it would be easy to say, the forecast report doesnt work, we know that so lets just bear that in mind. Or you could have what I have, a customer demanding a report which reflects accurate figures. So if you want to get a report with the right figures then you [...]

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Doesn’t work 100%. OK so you may not encounter this problem, I normally hit these sort of problems as I spend most of my time doing data migration work from other systems so I’m more likely to find anomolies that wouldnt always occurr in normal operation.
The issue here is that you *could* have a situation [...]

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So as more and more organisations move to the Line 500 webclient or go fully web based with Sage 1000 you would think that for large scale deployments this technology would work seamlessly wouldn’t you? Truth is as the financial and operations module is one very large and cumbersome Java applet it causes no end [...]

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I’m not questioning anyone’s judgement here but Business Intelligence (BI) is fast becoming the new CRM (aka the emprerors new clothes). Why? Because its seems many medium and large enterprises are falling over themselves to get some form of BI implemented without really understanding what it will and wont give them. Let me give you [...]

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