In this space we try our best to outline the benefits of each new MAS 90 and MAS 200 release from Sage. We also use events like the Sage MAS 90 and MAS 200 User Group meetings to highlight and demonstrate the features. However, with Sage consistently developing and issuing new versions, it is difficult to catalog and re-count all of the reasons you might upgrade to a newer release. Here is a recap 10 reasons you might want to upgrade to 4.4.
TOP TEN REASONS TO UPGRADE FROM 4.3 TO 4.4
1. Conveniently move up to the current release, and minimize the impact of upgrading, by using Parallel Migration to continue running your business on the existing system while your new 4.4 system is made ready.
2. Lower the cost of personalizing your system with easier and more powerful methods of applying customizations that will not be impacted by upgrades to new versions.
3. React more quickly to changes with greater insight into distribution, manufacturing, and purchasing with on-demand “ad-hoc” views into your business data.
4. Increase employee productivity and reduce errors by adding unique identifying information in expanded customer and item number fields.
5. Increase efficiencies of your system with easy-to-download product updates that provide a new set of customer-requested 4.4 features throughout the year.
6. Increase efficiencies for each of your users with easy access to resource information directly from their desktops.
7. Save time and improve accuracy with a streamlined physical count process, default to your on-hand quantities so you only need to update items that have changes, and print inventory items on worksheets in the desired order.
8. Lower shipping and handling costs through consolidated drop shipments.
9. Achieve greater employee productivity with personalization of data entry screens to match workflows for each role, quickly launch related tasks, attach related documents to records like electronic post-its that flow throughout the system, and set security by role—down to task level.
10. Streamline your inventory processes with accurate data collection using enhancements in Bar Code—now use radio-frequency handhelds and incorporate user-defined fields (UDFs) such as expiration dates with serial or lot numbers.
