Sage 200 - What's new in Sage 200 Professional Winter 2017 Enhancements
Description

Sage 200 has three key themes:

  • Connected data
  • Customer experience
  • Simplicity

Sage 200 has been built on direct customer feedback with customers telling us that simplifying their business processes is key and improving the user experience to become more productive on a daily basis is what really matters to them.

Highlights include:

  • Sage Bank Feeds enhancements – create high quality rules that automatically match bank transactions with transactions in Sage 200.
  • Sage Contact - view key financial data about your contacts directly in Microsoft Outlook .
  • Improved budget reporting - we've listened to your feedback and simplified the management of budgets with budget history, check budgets and budgets vs. actuals.

A detailed list of new features and benefits per module is provided within this guide.

Cause
Resolution
New features and benefits in Sage 200 Professional 2017 Winter Enhancement
Details relating to Sage 200 Professional Summer 2017 Enhancement can be found here.

More information can be found via the program helpfiles which can be accessed here.

A list of fixed issues can be found here.

Feature
Bank Feeds enhancements


What
  • Bank balances and transaction details will be available in near/real time once the customer has authorised their bank to do so.
  • Direct bank feeds from the top high street banks flow straight into Sage 200 creating transactions within the bank feeds form.
  • Users can create rules that enable automated matching, check and authorise transactions.
  • Adoption of Yodlee bank feeds aggregator with Sage Bank Feeds.
  • Supporting off boarding from Sage Bank Feeds.
Explanation
  • Direct bank feeds from your bank to Sage 200 coupled with user defined rules which enable automated bank reconciliation.
  • Adoption of Yodlee as part of Sage Bank feeds and Sage 200 Services Standard.
Benefits
  • Secure, accurate and timely bank data flows seamlessly into Sage 200.
  • Efficient processing of banking data removing the need to manually re-key data.
  • Reduce human error by automating activity from your bank in to Sage 200.
  • Improved user experience.
  • Greater control over your data.
  • Reduced cost of entry.
Location in software      Financials
Sage Contact
What
  • View key financial information quickly and easily e.g. view outstanding balance, recent transactions, credit limit all within the familiar environment of Outlook.
  • Easily find additional contact records at the same customer company.
Explanation
  • An Outlook plug in that pulls through the context of customers and suppliers within Microsoft O365.
Benefits 
  • View the information need to make decisions and answer queries without the need to leave Outlook. Liberates data to the right people without the need to be a user of Sage 200.
  • Work and collaborate anywhere with trusted applications such as Microsoft Outlook.
  • Avoid the errors, duplications and omissions that occur with multiple separate contact lists.
Location in software      Outlook
Docs to anywhere
What
  • Introduced the ability to save documents and files to any configured location:
  • Document storage is available for a set of user defined reports.
  • In addition to the user specified production action (print, e-mail) a pdf version of the report will be stored silently to the chosen location. This is invoked when any print, e-mail, quick print button is used to produce an Invoice or Credit, either directly, or from preview.
Explanation
  • Configuration settings that allow customers to automate document storage to a location of their choice such as server, One Drive or Dropbox.
Benefits
  • Automated document storage.
  • Fast effective cloud storage so documents can be retrieved anytime.
Location in software      Financials & Commercials
Budget history
What
  • Allows a user of Sage 200 to record multiple versions of a budget.
  • All versions of budgets are available for reporting.
Explanation
  • When a budget is amended the system keeps a copy of the original budget as well as the revised.
Benefits
  • Quick and easy budget management.
  • Reduce human error by removing need to re-key information.
  • Greater usability.
Location in software      Financials & Commercials
Check Budgets
What
  • Allows the user to check the outstanding budget they have and what commitments are already in place when they are raising Purchase Orders.
Explanation
  • Validation of committed costs.
Benefits
  • Greater control of the overall spend by enabling decision making at the point of order entry.
Location in software      Commercials
Budget versus actual's report
What
  • Enables users to effectively track budgets and variances.
Explanation
  • New Excel report available as part of Excel Reporting for Sage 200 within Services Extra.
Benefits
  • Greater tracking and analysis of budget.
Location in software 
      Excel reporting for Sage 200 (Sage 200 Services Extra).
Cost centre and department contacts
What
  • Users can now enter contact name, phone number and e-mail details against cost centres and departments.
Explanation
  • Record and track contacts per department or cost centre.
Benefits
  • Ability to email budget reports to the cost centre owner.
Location in software      Financials
CRM: Adopt latest version of CRM

Note: Only applicable to 200 Professional

What
  • Integration with Sage CRM 2017 R3
Explanation
  • Adopt Sage CRM 2017 R3
Benefit
  • All the latest functionality from this release of Sage CRM
Location in software      CRM


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