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Alchemex develops affordable business intelligence for Sage Peachtree, in North America


Johannesburg, 26 May 2011

Alchemex today announced the customer launch of Sage Peachtree Business Intelligence, an integrated Excel-based business intelligence (BI) solution for Sage Peachtree, powered by Alchemex.

Sage Peachtree has long been recognised as a leader in inventory management capabilities for small firms in the United States of America. With the release to market of Sage Peachtree 2012 in Atlanta, Georgia, on 18 May, customers can look forward to an array of business management tools that go far beyond accounting, offering instant access to key information, making getting paid, reacting to issues and controlling profitability easier than ever.

Among these tools is Sage Peachtree Business Intelligence (Intelligence), a reporting and analysis add-on solution integrated with Sage Peachtree, which promises richer insight into the business.

Using the familiar Microsoft Excel interface, it enables more robust reporting and easier access to Sage Peachtree data, providing affordable, simple business intelligence for small businesses. Sage Peachtree Business Intelligence has built-in templates for sales, purchasing and financial reporting to get up and running quickly, but users can design their own reports as well.

Because Sage Peachtree Business Intelligence pulls directly from the system without the need for export or manipulation, reports are always current with latest data, so small businesses can more readily analyse the aspects of their business that matter most to them, get the insight they need, and make informed decisions. Customers can also consolidate information from multiple Sage Peachtree companies or other databases for further analysis.

Charles Teversham, Alchemex MD, in Atlanta for the launch, explains: “Intelligence is seamlessly bundled in Sage Peachtree 2012, which means that it will be provided to customers on Sage Business Care at no additional cost when they upgrade to Sage Peachtree 2012. The product ships with eight ready-to-use report template layouts to provide an organisation with presentation-quality reports for informed decision-making, and instant visibility into its data, which provides an immediate return on investment.”

Sage Peachtree Business Intelligence is the fifth Sage North American OEM integration, following in the steps of Sage ERP Accpac Intelligence, Sage Simply Accounting Intelligence and Sage ERP MAS Intelligence (for both Sage ERP MAS 90-200 and 500) to be developed by South African-based software vendor Alchemex, and launched by Sage North America. This is off the back of Alchemex's successful integration of BI products within Softline Pastel and Softline VIP Payroll in the South African market.

Teversham says: “The response from partners and end-users alike during this launch period has been so positive and we have an incredible opportunity to really make an impact on this massive market. Sage North America supports more than 3 million small and midsized business customers and Intelligence can add tremendous value to small business owners, bookkeepers and decision-makers, saving them time and money and make business-critical information so much more accessible in a simple and timely fashion. Being Excel-based and integrated into the Sage Peachtree accounting package makes adoption quicker and easier.”

To support the launch of the Excel-based BI product, free 'Discovering Excel' and product training is available online on the Sage University. Intelligence customers can also purchase 'Excel on Steroids' training on the Sage University - specialised Excel reporting workshops, developed by Alchemex, that have a two-month long waiting list for the classroom-based version in South Africa.

Teversham says: “A certain level of Excel skill is required to effectively use the Intelligence product, so these courses are real value-adds as we have found that people are hungry for Excel skills. Alchemex's solution of 'BI in Excel' eliminates spreadsheet chaos in an organisation by providing automated reports on request from trusted accounting data. An accomplished Excel user can then view, manipulate, analyse and distribute the data in the familiar environment of Excel, making for improved collaboration and quicker, more meaningful decision-making across the business.”

More information on Sage Peachtree Intelligence can be found at http://www.peachtree.com/productsservices/peachtreeaddons/intelligence.

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Alchemex

Alchemex is a leading developer, enabler and support provider of affordable Excel-based Business Intelligence software for small to mid-market enterprises.

For over 20 000 registered users in Africa, Europe, Australasia and North America, Alchemex's reporting software delivers automated financial, payroll and other decision-support reports and analyses in Microsoft Excel 'at the click of a button', directly from a company's accounting or payroll system.

Alchemex integrates with leading accounting and payroll packages, pulling real-time data directly from the database, thereby eliminating manual report preparation and repetitive data extracts. Alchemex provides complete automation of ready-to-use Excel reports for MYOB Exonet, Pastel Evolution (BIC), Pastel Partner (BIC), Pastel Payroll (BIC), Pastel Xpress (BIC), Sage ERP Accpac (SAI), Sage ERP MAS 90/200 (SMI), Sage ERP MAS 500 (SMI), Sage Peachtree, Sage 50, SAP Business One, Simply Accounting by Sage (SAI), Sybiz Vision (BIC), SYSPRO and VIP Payroll (BIM).

Alchemex is a Microsoft Gold Certified Partner.

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