All Heroes Wear KPIs: 5 Steps to Becoming a Financial Reporting Superhero
How do you measure success? In a commercial environment, you can gain a competitive edge by making sure that your Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) are informed and agile, much like Superman chasing a villain. But what makes someone a financial…
Checkmate – CRM Meets the Pandemic
The pandemic has drastically evolved consumer expectations by exacerbating what was already a hustle for higher quality services, more speed, more acknowledgment, and overall richer experiences. Either a business continued to scramble playing catchup to stay relevant or pivoted to…
Addressing the Challenges of Conventional Reporting
A business’ success is highly dependent on its ability to act proactively and make critical decisions in a timely manner. Businesses are more complex than ever and as organization’s grow, so too does their data. This data is not only…
Why Next-Generation SMBs Choose Managed IT Services
Throughout this series we’ve been looking at the habits of small and medium-sized (SMB) businesses and how they can unlock Next-Generation Technologies to unleash the power of their businesses and provide them with a definitive edge over their competitors. We’ve…
Using Reporting Trees in Sage Enterprise Intelligence
Reporting trees help define the structure and hierarchy of your organization. A reporting tree is a cross-dimensional hierarchical structure that is based on the dimensional relationships in your financial data. It provides information at the reporting unit level and at…
What You Can Learn From Next Generation Employers
The labor market is changing so frequently that even the pundits have given up trying to understand it. The volatility is likely to continue for foreseeable future. The BLS (Bureau of Labor Statistics) projects that a large number of open…
Plumbing the Depths of Analytics Software
Have you ever watched the construction of a new house? It seems to go so slowly at first—often taking weeks (if not months) to lay the foundation, connect to a water source, bring in electricity, and so on. And then—seemingly…
Creating a Next-Gen Customer Experience Must Become Your Top Priority
We’re living in a time of superlatives. Good is not good enough – we want the best. Fast is not fast enough – we want it now. It’s a shift that predates the pandemic, one which many trace to retailers…
Workflows for Stock Accounting Interface and WIP Accounting Interface Errors in Sage X3
In this blog post we will show you how to create a workflow that will email log files when errors occur in either the Stock Accounting Interface or the WIP Accounting Interface. Accounting Interface errors occur when, for example, an…
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Hawks Nest Condominium Association Slashes Payment Processing Times with Fortis and Sage 300
Hawks Nest Condominiums, a 61-unit condominium complex occupies a prime stretch of real estate on the Lake of the Ozarks. Each unit is part of the Hawks Nest Condominium Association, which collects dues from homeowners and manages the upkeep of…
Accounting for an Invoice in Sage X3 When the Goods Haven’t Been Received
Finance departments spend a lot of time determining which items need to be accrued for at the end of a period. In the majority of cases, the reason for an accrual is because goods/services have been received but not yet…
Leaders – Here’s How to Take the Fear out of Digital Transformation
If you’re reading this, you’ve already heard the words ‘digital transformation’ somewhere. In a nutshell, this refers to the adoption of digital technology by an organization with the aim of improving efficiency, adding value, and driving innovation across the business….
ERP for SMBs: Can You Afford Not to Invest in Next Gen ERP?
The acronym ERP (Enterprise Resource Planning) is used as a hypernym to represent any kind of software used in the running of a business and therefore many think they are running ERP when in fact they are not. Inexpensive and…
Next-Generation ERP — What It Is and Why It Matters
Five Hallmarks of Next-Gen ERP Applications
Most legacy enterprise resource planning (ERP) can trace their roots to applications rooted in the 1990s. While vendors have rebranded and re-marketed them, and added some new functionality, it’s hard to hide that the technology predates the digital age. These…
