Alan Subel posted on October 23, 2009 13:18
Financial Reporting and FRx Replacement for Sage MAS 500 ERP
Scott Zandbergen (Vice President Product Management at Sage Business Solutions) recently announced a replacement strategy for FRx Financial Reporting for MAS 500 Customers. An Extract from his announcement follows:
Although Sage is committed to ensuring compatibility with FRx Desktop, Microsoft has announced an end of support date of December 31, 2012. As a result, Sage will provide an alternative solution for Financial Reporting within our Sage MAS products. (As a reminder, FRx Forecaster has been discontinued by Microsoft and is no longer available for sale. It will continue to be supported directly by Microsoft through September 30, 2010.)
Sage has a two-pronged approach to provide financial reporting for Sage MAS customers in the future.
- We are building an Excel-based financial reporting tool based on the existing Sage Financial Reporter module within Sage Accpac. Sage Financial Reporter will be made compatible with Sage MAS and will provide basic financial reporting capabilities free of charge to all Sage MAS customers.
- We are also establishing an OEM relationship with a business intelligence (BI) vendor that offers advanced financial reporting, operational reporting, and advanced OLAP analysis capabilities. Sage MAS customers will be provided with one free user license for this product with the option of purchasing additional licenses.
These two solutions will provide robust financial reporting out of the box and will complement the already very strong tools in Sage MAS, including Business Insights Explorer and Dashboard. The release timing of these two financial reporting solutions will be aligned to a future release of Sage MAS, which has not been determined.