In the battle for Mid Market ERP Software supremacy, it's Sage vs. Acumatica. In this David vs. Goliath affair, who has the edge? … [Read more...]
Acumatica vs. A Real-World Hybrid Solution Example
Recently at my job I was confronted with a challenge to create a new business process for capturing shipping information and integrate that process into our ERP system. I’d like to describe the solution that I came up with and how I think it would have been easier to do with Acumatica. First, Some Background I work for a company that makes machines that dig tunnels. We are an old-school company with a proud owner who takes care of his employees and employees who are proud to work here. And we … [Read more...]
Sage Summit and Acumatica Coffee Bill
Acumatica has taken a very aggressive marketing approach over the past couple of years with some crazy stunts, but I guess that's what you do when you are a small company looking for recognition. Last week at Sage Summit, the annual Sage conference in the US, Acumatica once again took an "in your face" approach by offering free coffee at the event. This time, however, Sage fought back. Here is the news as told by Bob Scott: … [Read more...]
General Ledger Drillback
Recently I was working on a Purchases Clearing reconciliation as a favor to the Controller at my company. It wasn't a very fun project, but we needed to make sure that the Purchases Clearing account agreed to the General Ledger so our auditors would be happy. I was asked by the Controller to help out and so I went to work. In Sage 500 ERP, the individual debit and credit transactions to the General Ledger maintain a link back to the source transaction that they came from. For example, if you … [Read more...]
Looking to the Future
This week I put together a document called Case For Ending Sage 500 Maintenance (click the link to see the PDF document). My company currently pays a very sizable sum of money every year to Sage for the privilege of upgrading to the latest version of Sage 500 ERP. In recent years, however, it has become apparent that this money would be better spent on other things. In contrast, each new version of Acumatica is providing substantial new features. Even the upcoming release of the lowly … [Read more...]
Custom Explore Query
One of my favorite features in Sage 500 is Business Insights Explorer. Recently though, I was pleased to discover that Acumatica has a similar feature. Each module in Acumatica has an Explore section in the Work Area area. For example, in the Accounts Payable module, there are five menu options available in the Explore section: Vendor Summary, Vendor Details, Bills Pending Payments, Checking Pending Printing, and 1099 Year Summary. However, you have the option to add your own menu options … [Read more...]