Sage 100

FWIW re Sage Business Intelligence for Sage 100 ERP I have been trying to gather information about Sage Business Intelligence to send to clients regarding the Sage Designer/Connector Bundle. In the B.I Community, I stumbled across two items that were very helpful to me regarding the new Designer Add-In. The first is a Video demo. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hnXsbKBxmso&feature=plcp The second is a Designer Add-In FAQ. It's about the report designer add-in but adds some perspective on the regular designer layout generator and report manager. http://api.ning.com/files/uab1GQVgd5tdulwjku*Slfa62-JHmcSLe7jWWceDXNs*kfqkxlkhis4hWUNDekGhu3EFDAPP*LugRVBTRNilPsIU8Faj6QCD/Sage100ERPIntelligenceReportDesignerAddInv1.0FAQs_17102012.pdf The BI Community is at http://community.alchemex.com/. One needs to sign up to sign in. There are a number of other resources under Groups > Sage 100 ERP Intelligence Reporting. I am thinking this product may be a player after all. If you haven't seen this, it might be worth a look.

I think the issue is in the FAQ when asked who will use the Add-In - ""intermediate to advanced Excel users""... That leaves out easily more than half of the clients I work with. Now that I've actually used the Add-In and used the FRX converter I still am dismayed by the time it takes to really make a report look presenttion-quality. ESPECIALLY if you are using a reporting tree.