Sage Reporting
Nick Voller
Product Marketing

Agenda
12.45 – 13.40 Overview & Demo
Sage Business Intelligence
Sage Enquiries
14.00 – 15.00 Interactive Demo
14.00 Sage Business Intelligence
14.30 Sage Enquiries

Sage Business Intelligence

Wouldn’t it be nice if ….
Reporting apps could be delivered in hours
Report quality was always board quality
Reports could be accessed from any device

Wouldn’t it be nice if ….
Applications were scalable to millions of customers
We didn’t kill our network supporting thousands of users
Scalability was never ever a problem - period

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Sage Business Intelligence
Develop analytical applications from Excel

Sage Business Intelligence
Harnessing SQL Server Analysis and Reporting Services

Sage Business Intelligence
Add other components such as geospatial analysis

Sage Business Intelligence
Publish interactive applications to the web

The Reporting Landscape

The Reporting Landscape

BI Market – what’s happening ?
Market still growing
One of the few IT sectors
Microsoft is the reason for growth
Dramatic increase in demand from customers
Sources of information acknowledged

BI Market – what’s happening ?

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Product Demonstration

Sage Reporting Deliverables
Sage Business Intelligence
OLAP (on line analytical processing) functionality
Delivered in Excel
Delivered with the Line 500 V5.5 release Q1 2004
Pre-built cubes and templates
Initially Sales & Marketing based
Drilldown to transactional data
Cube builder included
Extract, transform & manipulate data
Require Microsoft Analysis Services
Realistic price point, still being finalised

Sage Enquiries

The Reporting Landscape

Product Overview & Demonstration

Sage Reporting Deliverables
Sage Line 500 Enquiries
Unlocking your Sage data through easy access
On-line prebuilt templates with drilldown
Customers
Suppliers
Stock
Full development environment to design your own enquiries, drilldowns and forms
Already over 40 customers using Enquiries
Delivered with the Line 500 V5.5 release Q1 2004

Questions &
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