Sage MAS 500 eExecutive is a new Web-based module that comes standard with any new system purchase and offers busy executives a customizable, real-time overview of vital business operations. Using the data available in Sage MAS 500, your firm's senior staff can make better business-critical decisions, even in rocky times, with up-to-the-minute information. This snapshot display, based on Microsoft's Digital Dashboard technology, can incorporate other applications into eExecutive, like e-mail, calendar and data from other Web sites.

Sage MAS 500 Alerts is an impressive add-on module that sends e-mail notifications to you and your specified personnel when something significant happens in your business. Solving problems before they start can satisfy your customers far more consistently. Integrated into critical modules, Alerts shifts your focus using early warning signals that announce critical events in your Sage MAS 500 system, including credit holds, inventory thresholds, priority client transactions, urgency levels and more.

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This module provides browser-based access to many of the reports found in Sage MAS 500 operational modules. Reports can be generated and viewed through Microsoft Internet Explorer at the same high level of security as with any module's standard output.

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Crystal Reports is a powerful report writer that is used throughout Sage MAS 500 for formatting and printing reports. The core reporting functionality for each module of Sage MAS 500 includes a wide variety of standard reports. You can customize each report with specific option choices, sort preferences and selection criteria. By leveraging the power of SQL Server, reports are tuned for high performance - even when data volume is significant. Reports can be output to paper or to a Web page at your discretion.

Sage MAS 500 Explorer, a new module also standard with version 6.0, saves time by giving access to all system inquiries from one central location. Expansion of inquiries in Explorer provides better access to sales, customer, inventory and other information you depend on. Even better, you can now export inquiries to a printer or Excel spreadsheet to perform powerful analyses in a user-friendly environment. For example, the new data export feature will enable you to carry out a pivot table analysis of sales to determine what products have been most successful in sales for given areas. What's more, you can quickly select all customers whose accounts are 60 days past due, export them to Excel in a matter of seconds and quickly perform a mail merge to send them dunning letters.