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What is the Sage Accpac Extended Enterprise Suite?

Sage Accpac ERP now includes SageCRM, an easy-to-use, quick-to-deploy Customer Relationship Management solution comprising Sales, Marketing and Customer Service Automation.

Award-winning SageCRM equips sales, development, marketing, and customer service teams with the tools they need to find new customers, close sales faster, and build lasting, more profitable relationships across all channels. Regardless of how, when, or where your customers, partners, and prospects choose to interact with your organization, SageCRM provides a decisive advantage by delivering a comprehensive, easy-to-use system to successfully manage these relationships.

SageCRM features full integration with Microsoft Office Outlook right out of the box to ensure seamless synchronization of contacts, calendars, and tasks between SageCRM and Outlook.

Also supporting an extended view of the enterprise is the new analytical dashboards feature. The dashboards provide easily accessed snapshots of the business that help managers better analyze, predict, and manage business performance. Key performance indicators, such as age of accounts, are instantly available, providing alerts that can be turned into actions through collections, payables and other tasks, resulting in potential cost and cash flow improvements.

The latest version of Accpac also includes a new GL account rollup feature that supports account consolidation in the general ledger, multi-currency revaluation options and streamlined processes for managing project and job tracking.

Incredible Value in Sage Software Assurance

Clients who maintain their Software Assurance plan received a HUGE benefit on April 18^th with the release of the Sage Accpac Extended Enterprise Suite version 5.5.They will benefit from the many new enhancements including:

• Sage Accpac Extended Enterprise Suite includes integrated SageCRM to give you true visibility across your entire organization
• Accounts Receivable, Accounts Payable and Sales Analysis dashboards providing you an up-to-date snapshot of your company’s financial and operational health
• Greatly improved integration within the family of Sage Accpac Extended Enterprise Suite products including SageCRM, Sage FAS, Sage Accpac HRMS
• New multicurrency capabilities
• New GL Account roll up feature
• Increased number of Account segments
• Increased number of years of history
• Popular Options products are bundled in with corresponding core modules at no additional charge including:
  • Account Code Change
  • GL Security by Segment
  • Vendor Number Change
  • Customer Number Change
  • AR Inquiry
  • Item Number Change
  • Ops Inquiry
  • Lot Tracking included with Serialized Inventory
  • eFile for Payroll
  • Time Cards
  • Additional Language Overlays

If you are not currently a Software Assurance subscriber,please contact support@balgord.com. and we will help you to Get Back on Track!

Webcasts

Introduction to SageCRM for Sage Accpac ERP Customers
Not sure what this means to you? EVERY organization can benefit from a seamless connection that unites your front and back offices, to give you a 360° view of your business. Attend this demonstration of SageCRM and see how integration to Accpac ERP will benefit all departments in your organization.

To register please email lsapwell@balgord.com.

Events

Client Event
The Value of Business Intelligence Symposium was held April 24, 2008 at the Living Arts Centre in Mississauga, Ontario.
At informative briefings and training sessions, 60 clients learned how to manage their organization's business intelligence and turn it into actionable knowledge.

Client Comments:
"The presentations were succinct, developed and timed well without too much overload.”

"…really recharged my batteries on a few levels.”

"excellent”

"good overview”

"very good combination of Info/technology.”

Who's who at Balgord Software Solutions

Annette Balgord, Principal
An early adapter of micro computer technology, Annette’s first project was the development of an inventory control and sales order system for an industrial distribution company. Subsequently, she held operations management and controller positions in Canada and the U.S. introducing each company to its first computerized accounting and operations management system.