User Guide

The Sage Accpac Insight application helps you
dramatically improve reporting performance, make
more informed decisions, and respond rapidly to
ever-changing business conditions.With the Sage
Accpac Insight software, you can:
Produce sophisticated reports across multiple •
cost centers or business entities.
Implement a complete budgeting solution that •
offers comprehensive bottom-up budgeting, drill-
down, and write-back capabilities
Integrate and consolidate information from •
disparate, enterprisewide business management
applications and distribute it securely to key staff
anytime, anywhere.
Improve operational efficiency with reduced •
consolidating and reporting cycles.
Consolidate reports, budgets, forecasts, •
and plans and automatically modify them as
assumptions change.
Create high-volume, customized reports to •
satisfy every business requirement, both internal
and external.
Simplify data access by automating distribution •
to key personnel enterprisewide.
Access key business information over the •
Internet.
Provide secure access to reports to key staff, •
maintaining the integrity of information across the
enterprise.
Provide an out-of-the-box reporting experience •
that can be extended intan enterprisewide
customizable and comprehensive business
analytics solution.
And much more. . .•
Sage Accpac Insight
Analyze Enterprise Data and Gain Control of Your Business
A high-performance business analytics tool, Sage Accpac Insight helps you create and custom-
ize reports that withstand the toughest scrutiny. Insight extends far beyond your general ledger,
providing a powerful solution complete with bottom-up budgeting, write-back, drill-down, and
other advanced capabilities.
Insight provides access to your critical operational and sales data, as well as to customer, product,
vendor, employee, project, and geographic data—and more. You can quickly integrate information
into meaningful reports and distribute them enterprisewide while applying user-level security, ensur-
ing that confidential information remains confidential.
From basic reporting capabilities to full-feature enterprise consolidations, the Insight application
makes managing critical data easy. With powerful Universal Database Access (UDA) functionality,
you can integrate information not only from the Sage Accpac ERP solution, but also from other
ODBC-compliant databases—and can build your own queries.
Sage Accpac Insight facilitates rapid report creation by converting information already set up in
your transaction-oriented Sage Accpac accounting system or any other related application into a
single data warehousing system. It helps employees in remote offices and disparate departments
manage, distribute, and collaborate on data from a single, unified source. Deploy your reports
over the Web to key personnel throughout your company, or send a Microsoft Excel
®
file that they
can review on demand.
Sage Accpac
Interact with enterprise-wide business information from within Microsoft Excel®.