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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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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OK, so the posts have been a little thin on the ground but I will be picking this up again now with a raft of posts over the next few months. I have been busy in the land of Sage 1000 with product development (add-ons) and a web interface I’ll will demontsrate very shortly.

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Lets face it the telesales module in Line 500 is pretty cumbersome (28 pages of system key configuration for a start!) and doesn’t lend itself too well to quickly entering price/quantity discount breaks. I have developed an add-on which is massively quicker to update multiple products across multiple warehouses and allows you to set up [...]

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Well if you are here then hopefully you found this site via the google organic search. This site is now ranked #3 for the term ‘Sage Line 500′ second only to Sage UK. If you are a Sage Line 500 reseller wishing to advertise or you need some help to improve your own ranking then [...]

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