Five Reasons Small and Mid-sized Businesses should invest in Sage Intelligence
In today’s competitive business environment, small business owners and mid-sized business managers need to dedicate their skills to managing their businesses, not sifting through endless reports trying to make sense of heaps of information. A snapshot view of your business is critical in a business environment where there is so much valuable information floating about. Not to use this information would be a great waste of the insight it offers for business growth, but how do you harness it? Well, Sage Intelligence can help!
Sage Intelligence provides very neat and efficient snapshot views with no fuss at all. It delivers key information on-demand in an all too familiar format, Microsoft® Excel®. This eliminates the tedious task of manual report preparation and working through repetitive data. With Excel being the front end for all reports, you can use your existing to manipulate your data even more.
As more small and mid-sized businesses recognize the need to invest in tools to analyze their data, what makes Sage Intelligence the obvious choice?
Reason 1: Developed for small and midsized businesses
Sage Intelligence was designed from scratch to cater specifically for the needs of small and midsized businesses; they were not an afterthought harvested from complex and expensive data analyzing products.
a. Licensing is tiered to cater for basic and very small businesses, graduating up to more advanced mid-sized businesses.
b. If you’ve been struggling with departmental reporting, GL segmentation, project reporting, etc., you’re not alone. The world over, smaller businesses face serious challenges with financial reporting. The Sage Intelligence addresses these challenges.
c. Many small and mid-sized companies envy large corporate’s ability to create consolidated reports from multiple sources. Enter Sage Intelligence which gives SMB’s large corporate advantages on a more appropriate scale.
d. Our products are supported by a vibrant community which offers all the support needed by smaller businesses with limited resources, from free webcasts to our online training academy
Reason 2: Ready-to-use set of Microsoft® Excel® report templates
With its familiar Excel interface and powerful ready-to-use sets of Excel reports, Sage Intelligence is so easy to use that you could be up and running immediately.
Sage Intelligence is integrated to provide out-of-the-box report templates that draw real-time data directly from the source data residing in your accounting, business management and/or payroll packages, and delivers it automatically in the familiar face of Excel. You can choose from a number of different layouts so you don’t need to know how to write reports or how the data is structured to understand the value of the reports. You can also easily customize, manipulate and distribute your reports in Excel.
Our software takes you directly to the information you most need, i.e., financial reports (income/profit & loss statement, balance sheet), trend analyses, management dashboards and operational reports, plus it gives you the ability to quickly drill down to trans-actionable details.
Reason 3: Affordable and scalable
Sage Intelligence is affordable and scalable. To ensure appropriate pricing for different levels of user, we’ve set up our offering as a series of incremental modules, allowing you to cherry-pick what you need as your budget allows.
It offers the best of both worlds: you can choose fixed format reporting such as monthly financial statements and board packs, or on-the-fly analyzes for evaluating sales trends or inventory.
Reason 4: Proven track record
Sage Intelligence has a proven track record with market leading vendors of accounting/ERP and payroll software in delivering integrated Business Intelligence data analyzing and reporting tools to small and medium businesses. As an established brand, with 13 years’ experience in providing easy-to-use business reporting tools and servicing more than 25 000 customers, we have maintained a 90% renewal rate and an expanding global presence.
Reason 5: Integrated with market-leading ERP software
Sage Intelligence software is integrated into eleven Sage accounting, ERP and payroll products. It was developed with our other software in mind, to make integration easy for our customers. This means there are no technological hurdles around installation and support. It leverages your existing software investment, ensures the module is priced appropriately for the market and allows for widespread adoption.