Sage MAS 500 Customization   Sage MAS 500 leverages today's technology to provide customers with the tools needed to keep their businesses on-track. The most important feature is our underlying technology which is 100% Microsoft, including SQL Server, Windows, and Visual Basic - a .NET language. The underlying technology is one of the many reasons why our customers can quickly and easily customize their systems. Click here to view the Customization Overview brochure.
Performance Benchmarks
Sage MAS 500 continues to out-perform the competition. The recent version 6.2 benchmark shows that once again, Sage MAS 500 is the enterprise market performance leader, processing over 360,000 sales orders per hour in a multi-user environment. That translates to over 2,800,000 sales orders per eight-hour day. Performance measurements like these cement Sage MAS 500's position as the market leader, which means that you can count on Sage MAS 500 to deliver the performance and scalability you need for high e-business transaction volumes.
Four Levels of Customization
Sage MAS 500 can be customized to meet your current business needs as well as well as future growth by maximizing user flexibility and scalability. The product includes four levels of customization - user-defined fields, Customizer module, Software Development Kit (development tools), and source code. Many features - including menus, lookup windows, reports, and the user interface - can be customized without programming. If you require increased functionality, Sage MAS 500 is built on a powerful technology foundation that can be tailored using industry standard tools, resulting in shorter development cycles and lower customization costs for you. These tools also enable Sage MAS 500 to be readily integrated to other business applications.
Customizer
The Customizer module enables you to easily modify standard screens and forms to match your specific business process and to improve staff productivity. Changes can be made to specific users or groups, including departments, companies, executives, or other groups that you define. Many controls are modifiable without extensive programming knowledge.
Software Development Kit
Software Development Kit is available to those who wish to customize applications more fundamentally, and lets you finish your development tasks faster and at a lower cost. It provides Visual Basic controls, wizards and utilities to solve housekeeping issues, including concurrency, user interface, security controls, data handling and more. With these issues handled by the Software Development Kit, your developers are free to build the application itself, saving you development time and money.
Commitment to Microsoft Platforms
Microsoft Technology If your business is committed to Microsoft platforms, or you want to migrate to a Microsoft-centric IT approach, Sage MAS 500 is the best choice you can make for your enterprise software package. Since Sage MAS 500 is the only application in the enterprise market developed from the start exclusively for Microsoft platforms, it's optimized in ways competitive solution can't be, and designed to support the latest features of current Microsoft releases.   Our .NET Future Sage MAS 500 already displays Sage’s ongoing commitment to leading-edge technology by delivering full functionality on the now-current Microsoft architecture. This commitment will continue into the .NET era, tempered by Sage’s focus on ensuring that our solutions provide real benefits to the customer rather than bleeding-edge technology for its own sake.   Sage MAS 500 was originally developed exclusively for the Microsoft platform, and is therefore perfectly positioned to evolve with Microsoft to the .NET platform. Like Microsoft, Sage recognized the need for two distinct application delivery technologies: Windows for the trained operator, requiring a rich UI and high performance, and Web for the occasional user, requiring simplicity and ubiquity. This is reflected in our two development environments: the VB/SQL environment for core modules such as GL, and the DHTML/COM+ environment for eCustomer, eSalesforce and eExecutive.   Microsoft's .NET strategy incorporates the same distinction, and Sage will move these applications to the updated technologies. The core applications will be recompiled with Visual Studio.NET and leverage the WinForm engine. The web applications will be moved to .NET and leverage both the WebForm engine and ASP.NET. Click here for more information about Sage's .NET strategy.
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