Sage 200 2011

The Sage 200 Software Suite - a Powerful ERP Solution for Small and Medium Sized Businesses

The Sage 200 suite is the ideal ERP solution for organisations that have outgrown entry-level accounting and finance software, such as Sage 50. Sage 200 is also a great solution for organisations that need a flexible, quick to deploy, highly functional ERP system that will bring together all the key processes of your business.

Sage 200 is a fully comprehensive, modular ERP suite. It's also an extremely popular solution, particularly in the UK. Concentrix TSG has hundreds of customers throughout the country successfully using Sage 200 to help run their entire business. It covers all your key business areas and functions: from marketing, sales and customer service, right through to accounting and finance, production, manufacturing, project management, senior management and a whole range of other activities.

The latest release, Sage 200 2011, builds on the success of previous versions. Sage 200 2011 includes enhanced functionality for accounting, manufacturing, business intelligence, mobile device access, timesheets and expenses and much more.

What is Sage 200?

Sage 200 is a fully integrated business management software solution and a genuine business-wide application. Rather than having to run separate, unconnected pieces of software to manage different areas of your company, the Sage 200 suite enables your organisation to control all of its main businesses processes from within a single software suite.

Sage 200 is typically used in organisations with up to 50 users, with 5 to 250 employees. Although many organisations use the software primarily for finance and accounting, it's a modular suite of products. This means Sage 200 delivers the flexibility to choose just the modules you need for your individual and often unique business requirements. And as well as providing flexibility, the modularity of the suite means you only purchase the software that your business needs, making Sage 200 a highly cost-effective ERP solution.

As standard, Sage 200 includes powerful 'out of the box' functionality to start giving you competitive advantage almost straight away. The Sage 200 suite includes software for financials, data analysis and customer and supplier management. You can then choose from the range of additional modules and add-on applications as and when you need them.

As a business management software platform, Sage 200 allows plug-ins from other third party systems or applications. So, if you need niche or highly specialised functionality, there's a network of around 900 accredited developers that offer a range of add-on applications or, if you wish, can develop something especially for you.

So what is Sage 200? It's a highly powerful, readily deployed, flexible ERP solution for small and medium-sized organisations.

How Sage 200 Meets the Needs of Your Business

The Sage 200 software suite was first released in August 2007. Sage developed the suite as a completely new application: built from the ground up using '.net' technology. Since then, Sage 200 has steadily grown in popularity, bringing significant, tangible benefits to a wide variety of organisations throughout the UK (and throughout the world!).

Because of Sage's extensive experience of developing business software, Sage 200 is a highly robust solution. It's also highly flexible, with modular and industry specific applications to manage information and processes throughout your company - whatever business you're in. It's also easy to access wherever and whenever you need it: Sage 200 2011 works on a wide range of web-browsers and mobile devices, including the iPhone and Blackberry.

Although a lot of functionality is available straight 'out of the box', to successfully implement Sage 200 you need to work with an accredited Sage Business Partner such as Concentrix TSG (Sage will only sell this software via an accredited partner). A Sage business partner will be able to quickly and efficiently configure Sage 200 to meet the exact needs of your business, plus offer you a wealth of advice and guidance.

In fact, depending on your requirements, Concentrix TSG can have Sage 200 up and running in a matter of days with minimum disruption to your day-to-day business activities.

How Sage 200 Brings your Business Together

Because Sage 200 is an integrated ERP solution which connects all the main functions of your business, it delivers massive gains in efficiency and effectiveness. Business process improvement will begin right from the start of your Sage 200 project. In this way, Sage 200 delivers a quick return on investment and will soon increase your company's business processes, customer satisfaction and profitability.

Sage 200 manages each stage of your business process. For example, Sage 200 CRM has dedicated tools for marketing; helping manage campaigns, marketing activities, lead generation and lead tracking. It then follows seamlessly through to the sales stage, helping sales teams, whether in-house or remote, working at point of sale through to B2B tendering, manage their sales activities, opportunities, build quotations and process orders. The same software continues to manage the flow of your operations right through your business, which Concentrix TSG will configure to meet your specific company needs.

It doesn't matter which industry sectors you operate in or the nature of your business: from administration, finance to production, fulfillment and customer service, Concentrix TSG will implement Sage 200 to keep your business moving - efficiently and effectively.

How Sage 200 Gives a Single View of Your Business

Sage 200 brings together the front and back office functions within your business. This leads to increased visibility across your whole organisation and can lead to the business achieving a competitive advantage.

In summary Sage 200 will:

  • Create workflows which cover the whole organisation. This reduces duplication of effort and reduces the possibility of errors
  • Increase visibility of information across your organisation, giving staff knowledge of different areas of the business and helping towards delivering exceptional levels of customer service
  • Provide managers with the information they need to make more informed business decisions
  • Enable you to control all operations from one integrated ERP solution

Sage 200 Business Intelligence Delivers Timely, Accurate and High-Quality Information Sage 200 has built-in business intelligence functionality. Because Sage 200 works throughout your business, it can provide data from any area, to anyone who needs it. This means you can view data from across your organisation in a format that suits you (including dashboards). This enables detailed analysis of all the data and information throughout the business area, function or process. So with greater control of your key business functions and increased transparency, Sage 200 helps your staff make better decisions: from day-to-day operations to key strategic and financial planning.

Sage 200 will Grow with Your Organisation

The decision to buy ERP software is by no means straightforward. There are many stories about companies investing in a solution and by the time they are up and running with it, there is a newer technology released.

However this isn't a problem you will encounter with the Sage 200 suite as it:

  • Is built on the latest technology including Microsoft SQL database
  • Enables you to share data between the Sage 200 Suite and other applications
  • Is modular, therefore you can add functionality as you go along
  • Is regularly updated to ensure it is compliant with latest government regulation
  • Has a published, pre-defined roadmap for the short, medium and long-term future

Sage 200 and Customer Relationship Management (CRM)

The CRM module is a foundation module of the Sage 200 Suite. In other words, the standard Sage 200 suite includes a free licence of Sage 200 CRM, which is effectively the same product as Sage CRM, the highly respected Customer Relationship Management Solution.

Customer Relationship Management is all about building relationships with customers to ensure that they continue to come back while at the same time attracting new customers. Essentially CRM provides a central place to store all information relating to customers, resulting in improved employee knowledge, greater visibility, reduced duplication of effort and the elimination of silos of information.

Concentrix TSG and Sage 200

Concentrix TSG has successfully deployed the Sage 200 Business Management Suite in a wide variety of organisations throughout the UK. These include customers that have upgraded from Sage 50 and Sage Line 100, organisations that have migrated from other business management and accounting solutions, and businesses that were implementing a system for the first time. Whatever your requirements, Concentrix TSG will listen to your business needs and work closely with you to ensure Sage 200 delivers the benefits you need, on time and on budget.

For more information about improving your business with Sage 200, please contact Concentrix TSG.