The Sage Line 200 Financial modules offer a flexible financial management system ensuring control is maintained throughout the whole of your business. They provide the tools to increase your profitability across all areas of the organisation and improve your competitiveness both in the short and the long term.

Lower administrative Costs
Sage Line 200 is a system that may be configured to meet the needs of your business today and into the future. The clear and concise screen and menu structure can be easily tailored, and can therefore be quickly changed to meet the needs of each individual user. This ensures that data is handled much more efficiently.

Informed Decision Making
Sage Line 200 in Finance allows you to standardize the management information throughout your organisation, providing enhanced decision-making capabilities through the use of accurate and timely data.

Integral Reporting
The Sage Line 200 solution gives your organization powerful, flexible management reporting tools enabling you to streamline your business and implement change. This solution provides you with a reportwriter tool, which has an in built understanding of the database structure.

Visibility
Sage Line 200 for Financials provides both financial control and immediate visibility of the organisation at all levels. Access is available to information from the final consolidation through to the source transaction using the extensive drill around facilities. External attachments such as spreadsheets, documents and web page addresses can be recorded against customers, suppliers and individual transactions allowing Sage Line 200 to become a central well-organised information repository.

Financial Planning
The key to financial planning is the integrity of the information held within your financial system. The ease of capture and access to information ensures that the process of financial planning becomes a routine activity rather than a perpetual headache.

Efficient Period Ends
With Sage Line 200 in Finance, it is possible to perform period and year-end close activities quickly, no matter how complex your organisation is. By being more effective in closing your books, it frees up more time to carry out valuable financial reporting and analysis.

On Line Information
Ensuring that information is literally at the end of your fingertips is essential when managing any organisation. With real time financial information from Sage Line 200 it is possible to manage your finances proactively.

The General Ledger
The General Ledger is the central repository for any organisation's financial information, providing a database for organisation wide transactions that can be enquired upon and reported on in any number of ways. By accommodating the complete financial picture for your organisation, the General Ledger is essential to the integrated financial system, and to the strategic decision making of the organisation.

General Ledger Highlights

• The Data Repository
  • Current Year Enquiries
  • Unlimited prior years online enquiries
  • Commitments
  • Transactional enquiries
  • Account enquiries
• Data entry
  • Ad hoc journals
• Recurring journals
• Reversing journals
• Standard journals (Templates)
• Account balance based journals
• Journal cascades
• Flexible Coding
  • Chart of Accounts
  • Unlimited hierarchies
  • Group structures
  • Fiscal structures
  • Alphanumeric flexibility
• Drill around
  • Standard drill relationships
  • User definable
  • Available for all transaction points
• Enquiries and Reports
  • System wide reporting tools
  • Specific GL reportwriter
  • On line enquiries

The Data Repository
All financial transactions ultimately end up within the General Ledger. This facilitates access to on-line information to measure the pulse of the business as well as providing the source for standard balance sheet and profit and loss reporting. The General Ledger has many reporting and enquiry features allowing fast data access to large transactional volumes.

Flexible Code Structure
A default view of the General Ledger is defined when creating the chart of Accounts. Pre-formatted trial balances and audit trails in both detail and summary are then immediately available.

Drill Around
Within the default view, and the additional hierarchical views, enquiries are available that drill from the top level through the defined hierarchy to the transaction detail.

Enquiries and Reports
Sage Line 200 comes with a comprehensive suite of operational reports and enquiries providing this essential ingredient that accounting functions use to run day to day operations.

Accounts Receivable
Accounts Receivable provides effective debt management, ensuring that cash flow is optimised and that an organisation's overall balance sheet remains healthy. It is simple to use, yet extremely flexible, having the ability to cope with a variety of customer requirements, whether a simple account or one with complex customer hierarchies. It manages sales and debtor activity, providing up to the minute information regarding aged debtor analysis.

Accounts Receivable Highlights

• Debt Control
  • Reminder letters
  • Individual credit terms, credit categories and credit controllers
  • Ability to charge administrative costs and interest accrued on overdue debt
  • Reminder letter auditing by transaction
  • Aged debtor analysis
• Comprehensive Customer Analysis
  • Multiple customer classification
  • Foreign and national customer capability
  • Multiple currency handling
  • VAT registration details
  • Individual bank details
• Cash Control
  • Flexible cash receipting
  • Cash receipt analysis
  • Electronic banking facilities
  • Flexible integration to Cash Management
  • Bank reconciliation
  • Cash auditing
  • Cheque refund facilities
• Dynamic Sales Integration
  • Full integration to Sales Order Processing
  • Single point of entry
  • Drill around facilities to sales order enquiries

Dynamic Sales Integration
When integrated with Sales Order Processing, Accounts Receivable ensures effective automated invoicing. It minimises data entry, reduces billing errors and allows focus on the resolution of individual queries enabling organisations to be more proactive in their Customer Relationship Management activities.

Effective Debt Control
Debt control is simple but effective. With Sage Line 200, the enquiries provided give easy access to transactional information, aged summary and any associated queries, all from a single screen. With the addition of the drill down and attachment facilities available, the credit controller can easily view the original sales order through to any associated documents.

Cash Control
Money management, focused on the effective control of cash flow is a basic premise of an Accounts Receivable system. Sage Line 200 provides easy to use facilities to manage cash entry and allocation. Flexible cash entry methods are provided, with the ability to have separate cash receipts and allocation steps, or have it contained in a single automated process. Full integration exists within the suite of financial modules, including cash management for bank reconciliation.

Order Matching
As part of the integrated Sage Line 200 product suite, order matching is provided between registered Supplier Invoices and Purchase Orders helping to maximise the accuracy and timeliness of settlement. Controls can be introduced, on an individual supplier basis, to ensure that correct business procedures are adhered to.

Comprehensive Supplier Details
The Accounts Payable supplier analysis provides the critical information required to ensure effective supplier management and development. The information entered against the supplier is used throughout the Sage Line 200 suite, for example, to monitor supplier performance

Comprehensive Customer Analysis
Accounts Receivable provides the ability to target customers effectively. Customer attributes and analysis codes are used throughout the Sage Line 200 product, providing business drivers within Sales Order Processing for functions such as pricing and discounting.

Accounts Payable
Sage Line 200 provides a sophisticated software product for handling an organisations Accounts Payable, allowing you to have full control over cash flow, and immediate access to outstanding creditor information. Accounts Payable provides flexible authorisation control to meet the requirements of business processes. This can be utilised in conjunction with Purchase Order Processing for full invoice matching, or as a stand-alone financial function. Flexible and secure payment methods are supported with full integration to Cash Management for reconciliation.

Accounts Payable Highlights

• Transaction Flexibility
  • Invoice Entry and Registration
  • Manage different invoicing types
  • Euro enabled
• Cash Flow Management
  • Flexible authorization control
  • Settlement discount facilities
  • Dispute and query control and analysis
  • Cash Auditing
  • Bank Reconciliation
  • Control of payment advances
• Comprehensive Supplier Analysis
  • Ability to handle supplier details
  • Aged creditor analysis
  • Multiple currency handling
  • Supplier performance analysis
• Purchase Order Matching
  • Integration with the procurement cycle
  • Single point of entry
  • Invoice quantity and value tolerances
  • Drill around to purchase order enquiries
• Different Payment Methods
  • Cheque
  • Cash
  • BACS – Electronic banking (as an option)
  • Electronic payments (via EDI)

Cash Management
With Cash Management, it is possible to keep up to date with your ever-changing bank balances, monitor cash flow accurately, and make informed decisions about immediate expenditure. It allows you to monitor your organisation's financial exposure. Cash Management provides you with the ability to fully reconcile your system with information provided from your bank accounts, whether manual or electronic.

• Cash Management Highlights
  • Automated bank reconciliation
  • Standing order processing
  • Inter bank trading
  • VAT analysis
  • Full financial integration
  • BACS and EDI capability

System Reportwriter
Seagate Crystal Reports is provided as the system report writer for Sage Line 200. This market-leading desktop reporting and analysis tool allows the production of presentation-quality reports with flexible analysis and formatting to meet all of your reporting needs. Generating new reports is an easy process as you follow the step by step guidance. Reports are also available over an Intranet, so allowing easy access to all of your information across your company.

• System Reportwriter Highlights
  • Fast and easy report creation
  • Complete design control for perfect reports
  • Interactive analysis for in-depth investigation
  • Advanced Web Reporting

Sage Line 200 Commercials

Sage Line 200 Commercial modules provide all the necessary integrated processes and information to enable delivery of high levels of customer service, maximising customer retention and helping build market share.

Improved Decision Making
Sage Line 200 Commercials not only provides integrated information systems for the monitoring and control of day to day operations, but also a wealth of information to assist in longer term tactical and strategic planning. This information is stored in an open format, allowing almost any reporting or query tools to easily access any part of the business management system.

Purchase Order Processing
Collaboration and trust between manufacturers and distributors, and their suppliers, is fundamental in building long-term value added partnerships. Sage Line 200 Purchase Order Processing provides the necessary operational controls and management information in order to build Value Added relationships. True partnerships breed mutual benefits and high levels of supplier commitment in terms of price performance, lead time reliability, delivery commitment and product quality. These partnerships are key to synchronising supply with demand and achieving dependable Continuous Replenishment.

Pricing & Discounting Policy Management
Organisations often have a wide range of suppliers with whom they need to negotiate aggressive pricing policies according to their traded business volumes. Purchase Order Processing provides flexible pricing options including the tracking of the latest supplier/product price and the use of supplier price lists.

Purchase Analysis
Purchasing provides for comprehensive order tracking and purchase analysis, enabling organizations to monitor business volumes and supplier/product trends.

Purchasing Highlights

Authorisation & Control

• User Activity Control
  • Authorised Activities and value limits
  • Budget checking
  • User configured hierarchical authority flow
• Purchase Orders
  • Header details
  • Line details
• Back to Back sales orders with direct delivery
• Standard and free format text
• Full documentation
  • Goods receipt notes
  • Supplier invoices
• Good receiving
  • Flexible matching with purchase order lines
  • Supplier returns
• Purchase Invoices and Credit Notes

Pricing and Discounting Policies

• Pricing options
• Price list management
• Price list updates

Purchase Analysis and Supplier Tracking

• Order status enquiry and reporting
• Product tracking

Inventory Control
Efficient Supply Chain Management must ensure that the supply of goods is tailored to fluctuations in demand. Inventory Control provides all the necessary tools and information to enable organisations to minimise their investment in stock and depot resources whilst ensuring a high level of service.

Integrated Stock Management
Sage Line 200 Inventory Control provides real time multi-site views of current and expected stock. Combining this with features such as Perpetual Inventory, location management, stock rotation, obsolescence and quality control, it enables enterprises to have real confidence in the execution of their stock management strategies. Real time views of stock disposition, and order management functions enable businesses to focus and capitalise on a lean logistics operation.

Customer Service at an Acceptable Cost
Inventory Control ensures accuracy in the quantity and value of stock and the cost of replenishing and holding it at any given time.

Recording and Analysis of Movements
Inventory Control is able to monitor the movement of stock, down to individual batches and lots, within a centralised stock holding facility or across networked distribution centres. This provides a complete picture of demand and supply across the organisation.

Efficient Stock Replenishment
Sage Line 200 provides replenishment based on either fixed re-order levels, or fixed re-order times, ensuring dynamic and responsive demand driven stock levels.

Delivering the Highest Quality
The quality of goods delivered to the end consumer is a major factor in the perceived level of customer service. Sage Line 200 enables quality management and product tracking from supplier right through to the end consumer.

Inventory Highlights
Stock Disposition

• Warehouses
  • Bins
• Products
  • Basic characteristics
  • Supersessions and alternatives
  • Technical descriptions
• Stock Checking
  • Predefined product selection
  • Stock take entry
  • Approval and posting of stock take adjustments
  • Perpetual Inventory (PI)
• Serial Number Enquiry
• Batch Enquiry & Reporting

Customers Service at an Acceptable Cost

• Costs and Prices
  • Standard selling price
  • Default purchase price
• Stock Valuation
  • Standard or weighted average
  • Current (latest) cost
• Batch Valuation

Recording and Analysis of Movements

• Movement Types
• Goods receipt notes
• Production receipts
• Customer returns
• Production Issues via works order or department
• Sales despatches via sales order or department
• Stock write offs
• Sundry adjustments
• Inter warehouse transfers
• Bin transfers
• Movement Analysis
• Stock Status Enquiry & Reporting
• Stock Summaries
• Stock History

Efficient Stock Replenishment

• Inventory Policy
  • Reorder point
  • Safety stock
  • Maximum stock
• Stock Reorder Position
• Excess Stock Report

Delivering the Highest Quality

• Product Characteristics
  • Batch tracking or full inspection control
• Inbound Transactions
  • Batch inspection control
• Batch Inspection Status
• Serial Number Tracking Report
• Batch Tracking

Sales Order Processing and Invoicing
Sales Order Processing and Invoicing within Sage Line 200 is fully integrated with the Financial and Purchasing modules and provides all the necessary tools and information to allow organisations to gain a competitive edge whilst delivering exceptional levels of customer service.

Delivery against Customer Expectations
Sales Order Processing encompasses a range of order methods, non-restrictive order size constraints, customer driven delivery times, goods packaged and labelled to customer specifications, and variable methods of payment. Sales Order Processing also provides all the necessary tools to measure service attainment levels.

Proactive Demand Management
Sage Line 200 Schedule Orders capitalises on value added partnerships enabling suppliers to efficiently manage long term customer delivery contracts. By recording delivery commitments well in advance, enterprises can be proactive in matching their resources to demand, achieving longer term stability in their logistics planning activities.

Full Market Trend Analysis
Accurate and timely sales information is crucial not only for the measurement of overall revenue and costs of sales but also for evaluating market trends. Sage Line 200 Invoicing and Sales Analysis functionality provides fast and efficient financial integration with Accounts Receivables and the General Ledger, together with a data warehouse that can be diced and sliced in numerous ways to meet specific business reporting needs.

Customer Focused Order Capture
Quotation and repeat order management provide a customer focused ordering activity, providing maximum flexibility through the pick and despatch cycle in either a ‘business on account’ or counter sale environment.

Delivery of Customer Service
Sage Line 200 provides the capability to source products from stock, manufacture, purchase or transfer to order with full visibility of current and forward orders. Tracking the progress of these orders is crucial in terms of responding to customer queries and quantifying achieved customer service levels.

Flexible Pricing
Organisations have the option to implement customer classifications/groupings, gross list prices, net pricing or a combination of both with short term promotional pricing taking precedence over blanket prices.

Analysis of Sales and Margin
Sage Line 200 provides accurate cost of sales with full margin visibility. Integration with the General Ledger provides for sales revenue and cost of sale analysis by customer, warehouse, and product.

Sales Order Highlights
Customer Focused Order Capture

• Transaction Types
  • Quotations
  • Standard (repeat) orders
  • Sales Orders
  • Schedule Orders
  • Sale invoices and counter sales
  • Sales credits
• Sales Orders
  • Header and line details
• Standard & Free-format Text
• Documentation
  • Quotations
  • Acknowledgements
  • Picking lists
  • Delivery and shipping notes
  • Invoices

Delivery of Customer Service

• Sourcing
  • From stock (multi-warehouse/multi-site)
  • Forward order control
  • Back-to-Back Works Orders and Purchase Orders
  • Automated alternatives and Back Order Processing
• Picking Lists
• Despatch Notes
• Despatch confirmation
• Order Tracking
  • Order status enquiry and reporting
  • Order and product tracking
  • Delivery lead time tracking

Flexible Pricing

• Price list management
• Price list updates
• Discount lists

Analysis of Sales and Margin

• Cost of sales
• Enquiries by customer and customer/product
• Sales analysis reporting
  

System Reportwriter
Seagate Crystal Reports is provided as the system reportwriter for Sage Line 200. This market-leading desktop reporting and analysis tool allows the production of presentation-quality reports with flexible analysis and formatting to meet all of your reporting needs. Generating new reports is an easy process as you follow the step by step guidance. Reports are also available over an Intranet, so allowing easy access to all of your information across your company.

System Reportwriter Highlights

• Fast and easy report creation
• Complete design control for perfect reports
• Interactive analysis for in-depth investigation
• Advanced Web Reporting

Financial integration
Included within the Sage Line 200 Commercial suite are the Sage Line 200 Financial modules offering a complete multi currency environment. These are:

• The General Ledger
• Accounts Payable
• Accounts Receivable
• Cash Management.

All commercial modules integrate with the General Ledger. Specifically, Sales Order Processing supports full integration with Accounts Receivables, and Purchase Order Processing supports full integration with Accounts Payables. Purchase Invoices can be posted to Accounts Payables individually or as a batch of invoices. Inventory Control is fully integrated with the General Ledger, providing for account posting by warehouse, department, product characteristics and movement transaction type across all stock, sales, purchase and production activities.

Sage Line 200 Options

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Job Costing
Job costing provides you with an up-to-date picture of the expenditure and revenue associated with specific projects. Working with the Accounts Payable and Accounts Receivable.

Using job costing in a financials environment
When using Job costing in conjunction with the ledgers, it is possible to record purchases, revenues, time sheets and payroll items for each job. You are also able to analyse the expenses and revenues posted from Accounts Receivable (invoices sent to customers), Accounts Payable (vendors' invoices) and Inventory Control (stock issues).

Using Job Costing in a Distribution environment
Job Costing allows you to record purchases, revenues and issues of stock for each job. It is also possible to analyse revenues and expenses posted from Sales Orders, Purchase Orders and Stock Issues.

Job Costing Highlights

Expense and revenue

• Itemised budgeted, forecast and actual costs by expense and revenue type
  
• Build in a percentage overhead for each expense/revenue
• Subdivide expense/revenue for more detailed analysis

Jobs

• Keep records for each job
  • Budgets
  • Forecasts
  • Actual
• Allow long term jobs to run for more than a year
• Assign related jobs to the same contract
• Define your own terminology

Analysing Jobs

• Keep a full transaction history

Fixed Assets
Fixed Assets provides you with control over your assets and their depreciation. It can be used individually or as part of the procurement process with full integration to the General Ledger and template entry from Accounts

Payable and Purchase Order Processing. You can record comprehensive information for each asset and any associated attachments to assist the management and tracking of these assets. The system has flexible depreciation methods to meet the requirements of both the commercial and public sectors.

Fixed Assets Highlights - Asset Management

• Record information for each asset
  • Transfer date
  • Capital cost
  • Written down value
  • Insurance value
  • Serial number
• Associate attachments with each asset
  • Ensure depreciation by the same method
  • Ensure same end date
• Include partially depreciated assets to your register
• Keep detailed history of activities affecting asset value
• Produce valuation reports for insurance purposes

Depreciation

• Multiple values maintained
• Multiple depreciation methods
  • Straight line
  • Reducing balance
• Flexible weighting of depreciating periods
• Additions, Adjustments and Disposals
• Choose calculation frequency
  • Annually
  • Quarterly
  • Every financial period
• Forecast depreciation
  • Up to six depreciation periods
  • Up to six calendar years

Bills of Material
The ways by which component inventory items can be combined into a finished product are many and varied. Bills of Material are able to accommodate many types of parent component structure to reflect the simplest engineering bill or complex process formulae.

Bills of Material Highlights

• Ability to Maintain Simple and Complex Bills
• Definable SKU
• Full % option list
• Gross requirement with standard scrap
• Stage kitting
• Multiple component occurrence
• Quantities or formulae
• Reference designators
• Planning bills

Assemblies

• Specify multiple levels of assemblies
• Planning using phantoms
• Identify each component by a sequence number
• Include notes and instructions
• Record labour and overheads
• Include references to circuit diagrams for each component

Family bills of material

• Use a generic product to build a family of products for planning and forecasting
• Define the proportion of alternative products

Alternatives and supersessions

• Specify alternative components if specific one is unavailable
• Supersede one component with another
• Carry out parts substitution

Trial Kitting

• Perform instant trial kitting enquiry to establish stock availability
• Explode an assembly to any level
• Enquire into predicted future stock levels

Costs and revaluation

• Produce a costed bill of material
• Compare estimated production costs
• Optionally include costs of rejects
• Revalue Stock items
• Create an estimate in the Job
• Costing module

Works Order Processing
Works Order Processing provides real time information within the finished goods manufacturing process. Materials supply can be checked using trial kit prior to the commencement of build. All material movements

incurred until completion of the order are immediately reflected in the cost per unit. On completion, costs are automatically moved back to inventory, and build variances highlighted in the many production reports.

Works Order Processing Highlights

Creating Works Orders

• Enter production works order and trial works orders
• Create hierarchical works orders
• Amend bill of material on a works order
• Create complete bill of material if needed

Planning

• Use trial kitting to ensure sufficient components
• Recalculate the order quantity based on expected reject %
• Print Works order document detail

Issuing

• Start production even if components aren't in stock
• Issue of materials by picking list
• Issue Works orders either selectively or in bulk
• Update stock levels automatically
• Full inspection and batch tracking

Execution

• De-kit a works order where necessary
• Record partial completion of works order
• Quality control and inspection details
• Record serial number of finished product
• Automatically record cost of materials
• Enquire into the value of work in progress

Completion

• Allow a works order to be over completed
• Optionally backflush components automatically
• Record completion of by-products
• Archive completed works orders

Purchase Requisitions

Target customer service levels, economies of scale and overall financial commitment are all factors that need to be built in to an efficient purchasing strategy. Sage Line 200 Purchase Requisitioning provides comprehensive financial control over the purchasing process. Configurable requisition authorisation enables a hierarchical process that may involve requisition supervisors, buyers and budget controllers.

Costs are minimised by consolidating multiple requisitions for the same supplier into a single purchase order, ensuring an efficiently managed centralised purchasing operation. Purchasing commitment is tracked through to the General Ledger with real-time budget consumption built into the requisition authorisation process.

Purchase Requisitioning Highlights
Comprehensive authorization and control

• Define your own requisition process
• Restrict the amount that each person can requisition or authorise
• Automatically pass a requisition to a supervisor at a certain level

Requisition entry

• Set up schedules for blanket requisitions
• Call-off requisitions
• Specify maximum quantities, values and expiry dates
• Raise requisitions automatically
• Split single requisition into multiple supplier purchase order
• Consolidated requirements by supplier
• Add VAT manually or automatically

Financial tracking

• Post commitment figures to the General Ledger
• When budget is approved
• When requisition receives final authorisation
• Post commitments to - Current year
• Next year
• Previous year
• Automatically post commitments to department where raised
• Apportion each item to multiple accounts in the General Ledger

Comprehensive Authorisation & Control
Purchase Management enables hierarchical control by user, based on the activities performed and maximum values associated with transactions. Entered requisitions can flow through a user configured authorisation route, providing maximum flexibility before live purchase orders are raised.

Financial Commitment & Cost Analysis Accurate detailed information concerning an organisation’s overall financial commitment is vital in maintaining an efficient purchasing operation. Purchase Requisitioning provides complete commitment accounting with real time budget consumption and accruals reporting.

Payroll
With Payroll Management, Sage Line 200 provides an up-to-date picture of the calculation of nett pay for employees. It is possible to keep track of employees pay and deductions through to the end of the tax year.

Payroll Highlights - Individual Payrolls

• Share organizational information on:
  • Tax and NI tables
  • Departments
  • Posting to the General Ledger
  • Pay items
  • Pension schemes
• Individual payroll settings
• Pay frequency
• Type of payment
• Director' payroll

Employee details

• Store personal details
• Store job details
• Standard pay items

Payslips

• Select individual payslip information
• Incomes and deductions

Maintain Payroll Details

• Statutory information
• Pension Schemes
• SSP
• SMP

BACS
The BACS module integrates your system automatically with the external banking community, saving you the time and cost of paper based systems. This module is fully integrated with the financial ledgers, and supports multiple payment media. Full security is maintained including the support of passwords by BACSAFE or issued by your bank.

• BACS Highlights
• Different payment types
• Multiple payment media
• Password security
• Full financial integration

Sage Line 200 Reportwriter
The Sage Line 200 Report Writer is designed to supplement the standard reports that are available within Sage Line 200. The data can be extracted from any Sage Line 200 module and incorporated into a report. The layout of these reports can be tailored to meet your exact requirements with the reported output either printed or saved as a file.

Reportwriter Highlights

Ease of analysis

• Create reports quickly and easily
• Store each report for quick retrieval when necessary
• Combine modular information to gain comprehensive analysis across your business
• Possible to sort, group and identify parameters of information where required
• Possible to add the reports to the CS/3 menu
• Export information to other software packages

Report Layouts

• Defined manually
• Layouts include:
  • Unlimited column information
  • Write own column headings
  • Align columns to meet requirements
• Design reports to suit different paper sizes

Analyse numeric information

• Perform arithmetic calculations
• Calculate durations for date and time values
• Round figures to a specified precision

ODBC Connectivity
Senior managers and financial directors need to be able to access corporate data quickly and easily in order to make independent and fully informed business decisions. Most Windows based reporting and data access products now comply with the Microsoft Open Database Connectivity (ODBC) standard.