Sage Software ERP products replacing FRx with Sage ERP MAS Intelligence as alternative for Financia Reporting. 

As a result of Microsoft’s decision to retire FRx, the module will no longer be distributed with the Sage ERP MAS product effective January 31, 2011.* In response to Microsoft’s announcement, Sage ERP MAS Intelligence will be provided to customers using FRx as an alternative solution for Financial Reporting. In the coming weeks, you’ll see information from Sage providing current on-plan FRx customers with an offer to transition their FRx licenses to Sage ERP MAS Intelligence. Customers will receive one free Intelligence Report Manager or an equivalent product mix depending on the FRx licenses purchased in the past by the customer.

Sage MAS Intelligence offers powerful and easy to use graphical financial reporting capabilities to access business-critical information and makes complex reporting easy using a new report designer. Going beyond General Ledger reporting needs, Sage MAS Intelligence provides Business Intelligence across the entire Sage MAS ERP system, including CRM and Abra.  Sage MAS Intelligence benefits include:

• Quickly identify and respond to trends using sophisticated, customizable dashboards
• Empower your staff with timely, meaningful information and trend reports
• Easily create in-depth financial, operations, customer, and vendor reports
• Efficiently view, manipulate, analyze, and distribute reports in a familiar Excel format
• Extract up-to-the-minute high level summaries, account groupings, or transaction details
• Effortlessly consolidate data from multiple companies, divisions, and databases
• Streamline customized work in Excel

Spend more time focusing on strategic analysis and interpretation and less time pulling the data together from static reports.

*After January 31, 2011, customer’s current on maintenance and using FRx will continue to receive support from Sage. Microsoft will no longer be providing any bug fixes for issues found within the FRx product so Sage will only be able to support matters that involve the integration between Sage MAS and FRx. Sage will maintain backward compatibility between FRx and Sage ERP MAS 90 and 200 V4.5.

**  This same Intelligence report writer is also available for the Sage Accpac ERP product.