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I believe this is a white labeled third party solution. I do not know why it's not available for Sage 100.

Some Sage Enterprise Intelligence FAQs via the Sage Sell portal

My guess would be that it probably requires SQL at some level. Just a guess. They had to get it shipped and shipped for what they had available.

Probably, Robert. Although in the cross-sell webinar they indicated it was just a matter of timing for rollouts. They never gave any tech reason.

Here's the webinar slides - damned if I can figure out the positioning. On the Sage 100 side you have: - Business Insights Explorer - Sage Intelligence Then potentially in the future (not available for Sage 100 yet) - Sage Enterprise Intelligence (SEI) The SEI offering seems as if it's fulfilling some type of ""must have big data capability"" checklist item for the Sage portfolio. Sure is confusing as to where the individual solutions fit.

This is odd. I think you're right: they feel they needed ""big data"". But why this? There are other, more mature BI offerings out there (Qliqview, Tibbr Spotfire, Tableau) with far bigger reputations. Tangerine is a VAR for Sage and Infor -- but Sage is OEMing this? It strikes me that this is aimed more at mid- to large-X3 firms, and yet they would have capability to implement Qliqview on their own (which isn't cheap). Why a half-step? I'll have to ask Debbie Hill about this ... ;<)

I have some info that I can offer. Yes, Tangerine is a Sage VAR for X3. They built a dashboard system - originally called Nectari - for X3. It sold like hotcakes and Sage has OEM'ed the product. There is currently an integration of X3, the newly released integration for Sage 300, and I believe soon, there will be integrations for Sage CRM and Sage 100. Is it confusing? Yes but I have seen the SEI product in action. It's extremely slick and I'm looking forward to the integration with Sage CRM. I'm not sure what happens in the future with the various products. Sage needs to address that shortly, I would hope ...

That clears some things up for me. Thanks, Peter!

At what point does Sage stop the revolving door of endorsed/white labeled solutions. For goodness sake they bought Alchemex and presumably have invested a TON of dough. Now what? - they're going to push a different solution? And before that it was bolt-on Business Insights Explorer. This constant round robin in product management is definitely impacting Sage overall.