Are you interested in business intelligence for your organization? BKD provides details of the features and functionality of Sage MAS Intelligence and Biz Insights. Each business intelligence (BI) tool contains including filtering, gathering data and selecting report content for your business.

1. Biz Insights vs. MAS Intelligence
Presenter: Chris Diltz
BKD Technologies

2. Introduction
 Presenter
• Chris Diltz
► Senior Consultant
► BKD Technologies

3. AGENDA
 Install and Technical Items
 Biz Insights
 MAS Intelligence
 Biz Net Report Design and Functionality
 Including How This Product Replaces FRx
 MAS Intelligence Design and Functionality
 Including How This Product Replaces FRx
 Product Shoot Out: Pro’s & Con’s
 Biz Insights
 MAS Intelligence

4. Both Products Are:
 Reporting Tool – Plugs Into Excel
 Outputs Excel Based Reports
 Financials and Other Module Reports
 Real Time Reporting
 Consolidate Multiple Companies & Databases
 Drill Down to Data Detail
 Easy Interface – Drag & Drop
 Comes With Report Templates
 Create Own Custom Reports
 Utilizes Excel Skill Sets
 Utilize Pivot Tables for Data Analysis

5. Reasons for Organizing Data into a Pivot Table
Four key reasons for organizing data into a Pivot Table are:
 To summarize the data contained in a lengthy list into a compact
format
 To find relationships within the data that are otherwise hard to
see because of the amount of detail
 To organize the data into a format that’s easy to chart
 View the same data in many different ways quickly and easily
Pivot Table reports use functions, allowing you to total, average
and count data. These functions also provide subtotals and
grand totals automatically, where you choose to show them.

6. Biz Insights – Unique Features
 Named Licensing: Designer & Viewer Users
 Security Through Named User
 Built Right Into Excel – Live Queries
 Faster Output than MAS Intelligence
 Doesn’t Require MAS 500 Client
 Manageable Menu Trees In Excel
 Broadcaster Report Schedule & Delivery Tool
 SQL Based Queries – Easy Development of Report Queries Between
Systems
 Develop Your Own Content Packs
 Uses SQL Reporting Services / Integration Plus
 Data Value, Data Set or Report Extractions
 SQL Reporting Services & ODBC Data Connections

7. MAS Intelligence – Unique Features
 Named Licensing (User/Workstation) Manager/Viewer
 User and Security Manager
 Comprehensive Security Layers
 Pushes Reports to Excel ; Slower ; Macro Intensive
 Modules: Report Designer, Manager & Viewer
 Leverages MAS 500 Menu – Requires Client
 Report Scheduler & Delivery Tool (Email)
 Manageable Report Folders
 Database Connector Tool for Linking Systems
 Develop Custom Containers
 Data Set & Report Extraction Focus
 ODBC Connections

8. Biz Insights - Install & Technical Items
 Installation version 5.x MAS 500
and version 4.x MAS 90/200
 No Installer yet; Install done by Biz Net
 Installation Guides – On VPC
 MAS90 Support Site Login
Login: MAS90/200 User (space before user)
Password: 1NewClient09
 MAS500 Support Site Login
Login: MAS500 User (space before user)
Password: 2NewClient09

9. MAS Intelligence - Install & Technical Items
 Installer Included – Server and Client Components
for MAS 500
 Need a UNC share on the network for storing report
templates
 Requires MAS 500 7.3 May 2010 Update
 Sage Support is still getting up to speed – no KBs
published.
 Training Guide Included on VPC

10. Biz Insights - Report Design & Functionality

11. Biz Insights - Report Design & Functionality
 Menu Panels
 Content Sections
 Data Sets
 Functions - Values
 Templates
 Drill Downs – Memory Caching
 Designing a Report
 Behind the Scenes

12. MAS Intelligence - Report Design & Functionality

13. MAS Intelligence - Demo
 Menus and Modules
 Connector
 Security
 Built In Reports/Templates
 Customize Built In Reports/Templates
 Create Straight Data Extraction
 Designer Tool
 Export/Import Reports Between Systems

14. Product Shoot Out - BIZ NET TOUTS!

15. Product Shoot Out - BIZ NET TOUTS!

16. Product Shoot Out - BIZ NET TOUTS!

17. MAS Intelligence Says!

18. MAS Intelligence - Says!

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20. MAS Intelligence - Says!

21. MAS Intelligence - Says!

22. GROUP DISCUSSION
 Discussion – Pro’s and Con’s Both
 Identify Reporting Needs
 Which could work with MAS 500 BI Dashboard
 When do we still use Crystal Reports
 Risks of using all products with clients

24. Year-end Processing for Sage MAS 90
Monthly Webcast Series – Held each month
Webinar: Year-end Processing For MAS 90
 Day 1: December 14, 2010
 Topic: Payroll/W2 changes
 Day 2: December 15, 2010
 Topic: Year-end Closing
Register at: www.bkdtechnologies.com/events

25. BKD Technologies Support Center
Sage Software - 866.832.4253
SageSupport@bkd.com
Monday - Friday, 8 a.m. - 5 p.m.
Support Center toll free

26. Chris Diltz
Senior Consultant
BKD Technologies
417.865.8701
cdiltz@bkd.com
THANK YOU!