Sage Business Cloud Enterprise Management offers a complete set of highly configurable great business management features. Designed according enterprise management best practices, Sage Business Cloud Enterprise Management is a key success factor in reducing the cash to cash cycle.
Indeed, all departments of a company are provided with reliable data allowing quick and sound decision making as well as proper control of execution :

• Accurate and visible measurement of purchasing, landing and production costs, on hand and expected stock quantities, forecast and firm customer demand, account payables and receivables, combined with flows accounting automation allow to prepare on time periodic and annual financial reporting as well as tax forms (such as VAT returns or Intrastat).
• Various automatisms allow the users to save a lot of time that was previously wasted in repetitive manual or spreadsheet computation. These productivity gains allow them to focus on data analysis and appropriate decision making.

Web interface, mobile app connectivity, subway map style graphic processes, textual search engine for functions and data, rich online help are real strengths to make user experience and new entrants tool learning easier. Each user gets direct access to features they need in their work, which allows even more time saving.
An easy-to-use tool allows the user to focus on their job instead of on the system itself. A powerful workflow engine is used to notify the user of any type of event, such as changing a referential data or blocking sales orders if the credit limit is exceeded. This allows the user to be more proactive in anticipating any occurrence or worsening of a problem.

The perfect management of the rights of access to the functions and the data drastically limits the risks of error or of access to an unauthorized information. The system allows to record the audit trail of all the modifications made to the data for which the customer wishes to implement this functionality (bank identification data of the suppliers for example).

Classical ERP are often criticized for swallowing a considerable amount of data without, in return, easily producing the information needed by companies, such as business statistics or financial reporting.
Sage Business Cloud ERP has many configurable inquiries :

• many capabilities to direct export in Excel,
• a powerful statistical engine,
• a very powerful tool for financial reporting and finally a perfectly integrated module for business intelligence.

The powerful analytical setup capability, automatic cut-off posting capabilities as well as the powerful financial reporting design workbench allow as an example to easily build a P&L per project, group of customers and product family or per profit center.

Sage Business Cloud Enterprise Management has powerful interfacing capabilities with partner applications.Whether importing or exporting data as text or XML files, or incoming or outgoing web service calls, all interfaces are easy to implement. For example :

• Import of orders from an e-commerce site with real-time control of the stock availability of items and, if necessary, application of centrally defined price list,
• Querying the status of customers orders by an e-commerce site,
• Import of orders taken in a sales force mobile application,
• Import of a payroll journal with its analytical breakdown,
• Export of remittance advice, of bank transfers orders,
• Import of service usage tickets in a subscription billing preparation,
• Import of production tracking from a MES system,
• Export of customer orders to a 3PL system,
• Import of delivery notes from a 3PL system,
• External web service call to retrieve a conversion rate,

The power of the data import functions makes it much easier to migrate data from legacy systems, whether it is referential data, recovery balances, or even flow data.

In addition to its powerful configurability, Sage Business Cloud Enterprise Management has its own software engineering studio. . Thanks to a powerful instruction set making business data processing easier, bespoke development is easier, quicker and is easier to debug.
Development duration is reduced to the minimum which makes client’s investment lower.
Maintainability and backward compatibility are guaranteed provided vendor development standards are respected, which favors portability in future upgrades. Investment is therefore sustainable.