Blog by Doug Deane When families experience lower income or rapidly rising costs, they must often downsize in order to be able to meet their financial obligations. Enterprises these days are facing the same challenges and they, too, are downsizing their financial lifestyles. That often means moving downstream from a…
Blog by Doug Deane This is the latest update on DSD Business Systems’ progress in acquiring and updating the former Sage MAS 90/200 Extended Solutions catalog. Every licensed developer in the MAS 90 channel has access to source code for all of the ES titles. If you already have a strong relationship with a…
Blog by Doug Deane Peter Drucker is famous for saying that “the purpose of a business is to create a customer”. But you probably have many competitors, and they are all after that same customer. So, what incremental value do you provide your customer? What “special sauce” do you bring…
Blog by Doug Deane Sage MAS90 and Sage MAS200 are identical products in term of features and functionality. That is, once a user has logged in to either MAS 90 or MAS 200, they cannot discern which one they’re using. The differences lie in what’s going on in the background. …
Blog by Doug Deane The Sage MAS200 Extended Enterprise Suite (EES) was originally released to give current and prospective Sage MAS 200 end-users access to enterprise-wide functionality. That suite took the powerful and widely-used Sage MAS 200 ERP product, and married it with SageCRM and Sage FAS, in order to…
Blog by Doug Deane As you know, the “How to Get yourself Fired” series of articles gives disgruntled employees tips on getting themselves fired so that they can collect unemployment benefits while they spend some much-needed time at the beach. In this article, we will be assisting CFO’s and Accounting…
Blog by Doug Deane In the fourth quarter of this year Sage will be releasing MAS 200 ver. 4.45 which will bring SQL functionality to MAS 200. Steve Malmgren has been the driving force behind this release for many years, and he is to be commended for his great work. Sage claims…
Blog by Doug Deane I recently came across an exceptionally informative article posted on June 9, 2010 by Laurie McCabe on www.smallBusinessComputing.com. The article begins: “A hybrid computing platform lets customers connect the packaged small business software applications that they run on their own internal desktops or servers to applications…
Blog by Doug Deane Extended Solutions Catalog – Part 4 If you attended Insights, you know that Sage announced that 24 of the 56 ES titles that Sage had previously announced that they would keep, and roll in to MAS90 over the next two to three years, have been retired. …
Blog by Doug Deane Sage ERP Software PCI DSS Compliance Definition of Terms Before we can even begin to start talking about the PCI DSS standards, it’s necessary to define some important and often-used terms: Acquirer – Also referred to as the “acquiring bank” or the “acquiring financial institution.” This…
