Custom Report Writing

Many companies spend many hours generating custom financial reports and ad hoc reports. This process involves many hours of manually generating this information into programs such as Excel, Lotus, and Word. The manual process may take many hours every month, resulting in mistakes, miscalculating the information, and time that could have been reallocated to analyzing the information.

At Acute Data Systems, we utilize business intelligent products such as custom report writing to automate these tasks. Once the custom report is created, it is a matter of selecting the criteria and pressing the generate button. This process has saved companies several hours every time the information was needed.  We utilize applications such as Crystal Reports, FRx, F9, and Sage MAS Intelligence to build these reports for you.

Crystal Reports

Crystal Reports is a business intelligence application used to design and generate reports from a wide range of data sources.  Crystal Reports allows users to graphically design data connections and report layout. In the Database Expert, users can select and link tables from a wide variety of data sources, including Microsoft Excel spreadsheets, Oracle databases, Business Objects Enterprise business views, and local file system information. Fields from these tables can be placed on the report design surface, and can also be used in custom formulas, using either BASIC or Crystal's own syntax, which are then placed on the design surface. Formulas can be evaluated at several phases during report generation as specified by the developer.

FRx Financial Report Writer

Microsoft FRx (Financial Report Extender) financial software is a full-featured, graphical financial reporting tool. FRx Desktop is recognized as a “best-of-breed” financial report writer, and is a market leader with more than 75,000 installations worldwide, 8,000 of which use Sage MAS 90, Sage MAS 200, or Sage MAS 500 ERP systems.   With FRx Desktop, the ability to specify row and column formats independently maximizes the flexibility of report formats. Combine formats with custom reporting trees that match your company’s chart of accounts structure to report on specific cost centers. Using a special tool known as the “Cleaver,” you can restructure your cost centers, or carve out new account segments not possible in your standard general ledger. After creating a report, you can print it, export it to an Excel worksheet, drill down to examine the transaction details, or distribute it.

Sage MAS Intelligence

Sage ERP MAS Intelligence empowers you to quickly and easily gain control and obtain the information you need for operations and strategic planning. Using the familiar look of Microsoft Excel®, analyze Sage ERP MAS 90, 200, or 500 ERP data. Effortlessly create real-time, automated, and preformatted reports with up-to-date, accurate, and meaningful information. Sage ERP MAS Intelligence allows you to spend more time focusing on analysis and interpretation and less time pulling the data together.