The dream of enterprise resource planning systems is that a single application can track and monitor all of a business’s functions in a way that makes sense to all who use it . In a perfect world, a manager opens a single ERP app to find data about any aspect of the business, from financials to HR to distribution schedules to customer relations.

This is easier to do than in the past, if you are a “mid market” sized business. This means you have less than $100,000,000.00 in sales and probably only work in 1 or 2 or 3 countries. If you are the owner, you are wearing more than one hat and not spending enough time on planning where you want to be or in developing the managers of the future.

The reason most companies are not there yet is not because the software cannot handle their needs. Sage Software and Friendly Systems have several good choices for businesses that want that kind of integrated information system. What holds up the implimentation of the ERP integrated system is the lack of middle management expertise that knows how to use information systems to monitor their areas.

Many mid market managers we deal with are “seat of the pant”‘ managers. They want to hear what is going on. They live in the present and the future and have not any time to look at “where we have been”.

Sage now has a good tool for those kind of managers. It is called “Insight” and it provides a dashboard which can give managers a snapshot of the condition of their business.

Call us and let us show you how you can use the Sage Insight toolbox to get your company to the next level.