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Enhancing Your Budget and Reporting Process with SAI Randy Bacchus Debbie Hill

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Enhancing Your Budget and Reporting Process with SAI

Randy BacchusDebbie Hill

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What is Sage Accpac Intelligence?• Excel-based reporting tool with access

to:– All modules and data– Multiple company databases

• Allows for easy reporting and analysis all through Excel

• Includes predefined financial and operations reports with user-level security

• Included with Sage ERP Accpac

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Benefits of Sage Accpac Intelligence

Ease of Use

Standard Reports

Consolidations

• Easy to create and run reports

• Reports designed in Excel

• Standard report templates for management, sales, purchases and inventory

• Dashboard and trend analysis reports included

• Multicompany consolidated report templates included

• Build connections to other databases (eg. SageCRM)

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KPI’s On Demand: Standard Reports• Dashboard Analysis• Multiple financial reports• Inventory report• Sales report• Purchase report• Metric and KPI reporting• Trend reporting• Cube reports available with the

Analysis license

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KPI’s On Demand: Data Drilldown• Two types of transaction drilldown functions are available:

– Drilldown with details within report workbook– Dynamic drilldown or “on-demand reporting”

• Examples of drilldown can be found in:– Financial Reports D – drilldown details within report workbook– Financial Reports S – dynamic drilldown– Dashboard Analysis – dynamic drilldown– Trend Analysis – dynamic drilldown

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Working with Reports in Excel• Full power of Excel to edit and analyze

reports and numbers

• Reports designed with pivot tables allow for easy customization by adding in columns

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Consolidated Reporting• Multicompany Consolidations:

– Report on multiple Accpac databases

– Sample consolidated reports included

• Multidatabase Consolidations:– Can report on many different

database types– Combine Accpac data with

external databases

Sage Accpac

Sage CRM

Other Database

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Shortcuts and Add-Ins• Several included “add-ins” provide

additional functionality for publishing and distributing reports:– Save report output to a specific

location

– Publish report in html for web

– Email report output

• Ability to run a report from the Sage Accpac desktop

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See “The Big Picture” with SAI

Build

See

Share

• Reports designed in Excel

• Includes pre-defined reports

• Easy access to information

• Multi-module reporting

• Drilldown for details

• Multi-company and database consolidations

• Report scheduling functionality

• Distribution of reports via email or internet/intranet

• Report Shortcuts

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Questions?Thank you for attending this session.

Please remember to provide your feedback.

Contact Information:Randy Bacchus [email protected]

Debbie Hill [email protected]

BAASS Business Solutions [email protected] 866.260.5302 www.baass.com