Are you still using Sage to do all your reporting? Finding it tedious to get the information in a format that you and your users want? Then STOP! Whilst the reports deliver what they say on the tin the format is something akin to old character based UNIX and DOS systems and you have no way of exporting to say Excel to do further analysis.
The answer? Simple, use Microsoft SQL Server Reporting Services. You probably already have it as it comes bundled with SQL Server 2000/20005. You get all the tools you need to create and more importantly, deploy with no licensing issues, reports that run in a standard Internet Browser (MSIE) and that can be exported to Excel, CSV and adobe acrobat format.
I know that content is king but if you want to see just how much more presentable an SSRS report is compared to a Sage report take a look at this Stock Analysis Report and run the one thats in Sage and notice the difference.
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