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Current
Promotions
Sage Software is offering promotional pricing
on a variety of modules and upgrades. All of the below
promotions expire September 28, 2007. Please call an
account manager for more
details.
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Save
up to 15% on Sage MAS 90 or 200 add-on
modules
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50% off any Paperless Office Extended Solutions
Enhancement
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Save 20% on any of the "hottest"
Extended Solutions
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Special discount options available for the Sage
MAS 90 & 200 Multi-Company General Ledger Extended
Solution Bundle
Authorized Training
Center
View detailed information about our
Authorized Training Center on our website. Find out
about our authorization and certifications, class
descriptions, fees, prerequisites, information on our
policies, and your CPE credit eligibility.
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Our
Clients Are Talking About Us...
We want to thank all of you that have
sent us reference letters or been references for us
over the years. It is the greatest compliment to us
when you share your postive experiences with us and our
other clients. We take great pride in our
level of customer service, industry and technical
knowledge and our ability to partner with you to
solve real business issues. Our goal is to have
every client so pleased with the service we provide
that they write a reference letter! Read this
month's featured reference
letter.
If you want an opportunity to be
featured in our news, please put one of your
positve experiences with us down in writing and mail it
to us.
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Get A Head Start On Tax Season - Order
Your Forms Now!
Tax season always
approaches quickly. Get ahead of schedule and order your
forms for making this year’s processing smooth. We have
W-2s, 1099s, envelopes and more available. Take
advantage of the 30% early bird
discount we’re offering by ordering before the
end of September. Contact Kathy Preston for more
information.
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Please note our new contact
information. Our phone and fax numbers have
remained the same, however our email addresses and
extensions have changed.
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Making Sense Of Business
Intelligence
Business
Intelligence, or “BI”, has become a popular buzzword in
the software and technology industry but how does it
affect your business? BI is a broad category of
tools and technology that provide a framework for
collecting and organizing your business data into
graphical views and meaningful reports providing you
with better insight to make better decisions.
Without the tools that BI offers, the volumes of data in
your Sage MAS 90 or Sage MAS 200 system can be difficult
to access and translate in a timely fashion and can
result in “information overload” – which delays
important business decisions and can expose your company
to potentially costly mistakes or missed revenue
opportunities. BI also makes it easier for
managers, executives and other non-technical business
software users to manipulate data and create ad-hoc
inquiries & reports without having to understand the
underlying database structure. The ultimate
objective of business intelligence is to improve the
relevance, timeliness and quality of useful
information. With that said, let’s examine some of
the business intelligence tools that Sage MAS 90 and 200
have to offer. Read
full article...
For more information
or to schedule your system upgrade, please contact Kathy
Preston.
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In 2006,
the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC)
announced the first significant changes to the Employer
Information Report (EEO-1 report) since the report’s
inception in 1966. Beginning with the 2007 reporting
cycle, companies will be required to report on new
ethnic and racial information for employees, as well as
revised job categories. Here are a few additional
resources to help you understand the new job categories,
and racial and ethnic data reporting requirements for
the EEO-1 form.
Who will be affected
by the changes?
Private employers with 100
or more employees and federal contractors with 50 or
more employers must file the EEO-1
report.
When do the changes
take effect?
The changes to the report take
effect in 2007. All reports are due to the EEOC by September 30,
2007.
Here are some links to online
Resources that can help you learn more about the revised
EEO-1 report:
For
clients using the comprehensive Sage Abra HRMS solution,
the changes to the report have been
addressed. Learn
more now.
For
more information, please contact one of these Sage Abra
team members: Tom Crain, x452
or Carrie Rust,
x453. | |
Sage Abra Suite v7.6 and Sage
Abra HRMS v8.3 Now
Available
The
new releases include a variety customer-requested
enhancements and modifications to Abra eRecruiter, Abra
Benefits Enrollment, Abra HR, Abra Payroll, Abra
Attendance, Abra Link, Abra MAS 90 Link and Abra
OrgPlus. You’ll also benefit from:
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Microsoft Windows Vista compatibility
Both Sage Abra Suite v7.6 and Sage Abra HRMS v8.3 are
compatible with Microsoft Windows Vista. Earlier
versions of Sage Abra are not anticipated to be
compatible with Vista
and are not supported as such.
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EEO-1 Reporting Changes Abra HR
has been updated to collect and report on job
categories and employee ethnicity as needed to support
the 2007 EEOC category changes. Abra HR provides the
code table and report changes necessary to support the
new EEO-1 categories on which employers must report
effective September 30, 2007. Category changes include
the following:
- Addition
of a new category titled “Two or more races, not
Hispanic or Latino”.
- Separate
categories for “Asians, not Hispanic or Latino” and
“Native Hawaiian or Other Pacific Islander, Not Hispanic
or Latino”.
- Rename
the category “Black” as “Black or African American”.
- Rename
the category “Hispanic” as “Hispanic or Latino”.
- Divide
the job category of “Officials and Managers” into two
subcategories of “Executive/Senior Level Officials and
Managers” and “First/Mid-Level Officials and
Managers”.
Download
the featured enhancements.
If you have any questions or would
like assistance with the upgrade process, please contact
Tom
or Carrie. | |
Thank you to all of
our clients and partners that stopped in at our Open
House on September 13, 2007. We had a great turn
out and everyone enjoyed socializing, as well as the
wonderful appetizers and refreshments.
A special thank you goes to our
partners Customer Fx and Sovran for helping host our
Open House. Customer Fx donated the Best Buy Gift
Certificates and Sovran donated the HP LaserJet printer
door prizes!
Check out who won
big at our Open House!
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$25
Best Buy Gift Certificate: Wayne Heck,
FreightMasters
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$25
Best Buy Gift Certificate: DC Needham, Edina Eye
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$100
Best Buy Gift Certificate: Patty Martin, Rocco
Altobelli
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HP
LaserJet Printer: Tony Winick, Aero Assemblies
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iPod:
Lisa Johnson, Hydrologic
It’s always a
pleasure to visit with you! Thanks again to all
our valued clients and business partners that were able
to stop by our Open
House. | |
Please
welcome our new clients:
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The
Integris Group
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Astrup
Drug, Inc.
Thank you for choosing to work with
Automated Business Solutions for your business
management solution needs. We look forward to working
with you.
If you know of
anyone who could benefit from the products we sell and
services we provide, please contact Judy Peterson or
Mary
Jo Geary. | |
Who should attend the Purchase Order
class?
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Controllers
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Department
Managers
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Operations
staff
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Purchasing
Agents
This is an excellent opportunity to
learn how to keep more accurate records of important
purchasing transactions, make better decisions and
access vital purchasing information when you need it. In
just one day, you’ll be able to streamline your purchase
order and payable entries operations with newfound
knowledge about setting up the Purchase Order module,
creating various purchase orders, receiving items and
learning different reporting and inquiry options for
added efficiency. In addition, this course covers the
integration to other Sage MAS 90 or Sage MAS 200 ERP
modules to give you a full understanding of how your
software solution works.
For more detailed information about
this class, please visit our website www.ABS-MN.com. Please
note, this class will be held in our new Training Center, located
at 2305 Waters
Drive, Mendota Heights, MN 55120.
Our next class is
scheduled for October 24, 2007. There is limited
space available. Please contact Kathy
Preston with any questions. To register, please
visit www.sagesoftwareuniversity.com.
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Sage Abra HRMS
Users: On Demand/Void Checks.
How should the questions be answered when posting an On
Demand or Void
check?
Your answer to these questions will impact the data
in the "Current" fields (not MTD, QTD or YTD fields) on
the Earnings Report, Deduction Report, Tax Withholdings
by Tax Code Report and Payee Withholdings Report.
The 401K Report also uses "Current" fields. If you
use any of these reports, custom Crystal reports or
Query reports that use the "Current" fields in the
Earnings (PrEarn.dbf), Deductions (PrDeds.dbf) or Taxes
(PrTaxes.dbf) data files, then your answers to the two
questions following On Demand and Void checks will
affect your payroll reporting. Click
here for full
details. | |
Sage MAS 90 and 200
Users: Important Updates For Sage MAS 90
and 200, Version 4.1 and
4.2
Service Updates are published between version
releases to address changes in technology requirements
and program fixes. Keeping your Sage MAS 90 or 200
system current is important to optimize performance
throughout your organization. Please read the following
information regarding the latest Service
Updates. | |
2305 Waters Drive, Mendota Heights, MN
55120
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