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Sage Intelligence. North American Roadmap 2013. IMPORTANT This roadmap is intended for use as a guideline and for information purposes only, and represents Sage’s current view of its product direction. The information is subject to change at any time without notice.
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Sage Intelligence North American Roadmap 2013
IMPORTANT This roadmap is intended for use as a guideline and for information purposes only, and represents Sage’s current view of its product direction. The information is subject to change at any time without notice. As Sage develops products using an Agile development methodology, any one of the milestones, features, release periods or versions could change. None of the information should be interpreted as a commitment on the part of Sage.
Sage Intelligence in North America Q1-2013 Q2-2013 2nd Half 2013 2014 PU1 RDA 7.3.5 7.3 RDA 7.3 7.3 7.4 7.3 7.3 7.2 RDA 50US50CDN500 100X3 300 PFW
Sage Intelligence Reporting for Sage 100 ERP Themes PU1 2014 Beyond Integrated RDA TBC Ease of use 7.3 Ribbon 64-bit Compliance Report Designer 2.0 Technology Technical Debt Integrated Install Q2 Q4 Date
Sage Intelligence Reporting for Sage 300 ERP Themes 6.1 PU1 6.2 Beyond TBC Ease of use 7.3 Ribbon RDA 64-bit Compliance Technology Technical Debt Q1 Q4 2014
Sage Intelligence Reporting for Sage 500 ERP Themes RDA PU1 Beyond Separate Install TBC Ease of use 7.3 Ribbon 64-bit Compliance Technology Technical Debt Performance Q1 Q3 2014
Sage Intelligence Reporting for Sage X3 Themes 7.0 Beyond Ease of use RDA TBD Report Manager 2.0 Technology Integrated Excel Add-In Q4 2014
Sage Intelligence Reporting for Sage PFW Themes 6.0 Beyond TBD Ease of use 7.3 Ribbon 64-bit Compliance Technology Technical Debt Q3 2014
Sage Intelligence Reporting for Sage 50 US Themes 2014 2015 UI Improvements Ease of use TBD Technology 64-Bit Unicode Support Q2 2014
Sage Intelligence Sage Intelligence Reporting 7.3 Beta
The 7.3 Beta Program What is the Beta Program about? • Opportunity to offer SIRWA members to install and use the latest version of the Sage Intelligence Reporting (SIR) product prior to the official release • Enable SIRWA members to provide valuable feedback on improvements made in version 7.3 as well as general comments on their experience • SIR 7.3 is a non-integrated stand-alone product. Sage Product Integrations will begin to take place in the 2nd quarter of 2013
The 7.3 Beta Program Feedback Platform • SIRWA members will receive an invitation to join the Sage Intelligence Reporting 7.3 Beta Group on the BI Community • This group will be the primary means of communication for the Beta Program • Sage Intelligence Reporting 7.3 Beta Group will provide you with all the information required to participate in the Beta Program including the Installer location, Release Notes and Feedback Forms
The 7.3 Beta Program Beta Program Timelines • The Sage Intelligence Reporting 7.3 Beta program will run from the 18th December 2012 to the 21st January 2013. • Members will be able to begin testing and providing feedback at any time during the Beta program. 18th SIR 7.3 BETA start 21st SIR 7.3 BETA ends Integrated Solutions (Projected)
What is new in 7.3? Usability Improvements • The Sage Intelligence Reporting 7.3 release is focused on usability improvements. The Report Manager and Connector Modules boast a new ribbon feature with informative icons and labels for each function aiding users in easily identifying and accessing the features that they require.
What is new in 7.3? Report Manager Ribbon • Commonly used features: Home and Help tabs • Less Commonly used features: File and Tools tabs
What is new in 7.3? Connector Manager Ribbon • Commonly used features: File, Home and Help tabs
What is new in 7.3? Connector Manager Ribbon • Commonly used features: File, Home and Help tabs
What is new in 7.3? Connector Manager Ribbon • Less commonly used features: Tools tabs
Sage Intelligence Sage 300 ERP Report Designer Add-In BETA
The Sage 300 ERP RDA Beta Program Improved Reporting Flexibility • The Sage 300 ERP Report Designer Add-In has been created to allow users to take control of all aspects of their report designs and layouts in Excel in a simple fashion, that alsocaters for users with complex reporting needs. • The Add-In allows users to create reports using the new In Memory functionality which enhances performance and allows large volumes of financial data to be processed very quickly. When using the Report Designer Add-In, smaller sets of data are retrieved from the database and GL accounts use simple formulas, thus resulting in the reports running out quicker with only the relevant data retrieved. • The Report Designer Add-In allows users to select the data and formulas from a task pane within Excel that is relevant to the report that they are building. • Users can now easily create cash flow, multi-currency, multi-year and multi-budgets reports as well as a variety of the standard accounting reports.
The Sage 300 RDA Beta Program What is the Beta Program about? • Opportunity to offer SIRWA members to install and use the latest version of the Sage 300 ERP Report Designer Add-In software prior to the official release • Enable SIRWA members to provide valuable feedback about the Sage 300 ERP Report Designer Add-In software as well as general comments on their experience • Allow SIRWA members to be early adopters of latest Sage 300 Intelligence offering
The Sage 300 ERP RDA Beta Program Feedback Platform • SIRWA members will receive an invitation to join the Sage 300 ERP Report Designer Add-In Beta Program from Sage US team • Kick off meeting planned for 19 /20th December 2013 • We will provide you with all the information required to participate in the Beta Program including the Installer location, Release Notes and Feedback Forms
The Sage 300 ERP RDA Beta Program Beta Program Timelines • The Sage 300 ERP RDA Beta program will run from the 18th December 2012 to the 15th January 2013. • Members will be able to begin testing and providing feedback at any time during the Beta program. 15th Sage 300 ERP RDA BETA ends 19/20 th Sage 300 ERP RDA BETA start Release to Market
The Sage 300 ERP RDA Beta Program Lists • Lists in the Task Pane allow users to drag and drop the required lists e.g. Accounts list into the report. The user has the flexibility to delete any unwanted data in the list in the spreadsheet.
The Sage 300 ERP RDA Beta Program Formulas • Formulas in the Task Pane allow users to drag and drop the required formulas into their report. The user can also use the Insert Function to retrieve the RDA formulas. The formulas are linked to Accounts, Current Period, Company etc to retrieve the appropriate financial information.
The Sage 300 ERP RDA Beta Program Drilldown Functionality • Users will have the ability to right click on a value in a cell and select the Drill Down option on the Excel menu. This will show the transactions associated with the value in a separate worksheet.
The Sage 300 ERP RDA Beta Program Example of a report created using the Report Designer Add-In • Income Statement