MAS 500 is a highly reliable, robust series of business applications covering all by areas of business management, including customer relationship management (CRM), financial management, manufacturing, distribution, human resources, payroll, enterprise reporting, and electronic commerce.
These applications are designed exclusively for the enterprise market, typically companies with 20 to more than 1,000 employees and $20 million to more than $250 million in annual revenue. The product is built from the ground up to provide customers a flexible, scalable and full-featured e-business management solution.
The modules have won several awards, including three consecutive Best Technology Integration awards from Microsoft for leading the industry in technical superiority, as well as three consecutive Software Technical Assistance Recognition (STAR) awards for outstanding customer service. In addition, we provide professional application training and implementation to provide a smooth and effective transition.
Version 6.3 is highlighted by a tighter, more complete level of integration between the entire suite of solutions. With information flowing more freely through-out your business, version 6.3 enables you to achieve substantial gains in efficency. Further, this enhanced workflow ensures you're looking at more current and accurate information, leading to better business decisions. The 6.3 upgrade is purposefully designed to help you achieve a measurable gain in the overall value of your IT investment.
Overview – MAS 500 (formerly Best Enterprise Suite) offers market-leading functionality in a variety of areas. Advanced CRM features focus organizations on their customers while ensuring accountability in their sales team. MAS 500 offers flexible manufacturing and distribution solutions. An executive information portal provides Web-based access to the executive on the go. An out-of-the-box e-commerce application gets customers up and running quickly with an integrated, powerful, workflow-optimized website. These strengths combine with many others to provide a complete solution for the small enterprise market.
Manufacturing features include routings, bill of material, material requirements planning, distribution requirements planning, advanced planning and scheduling, estimating, work orders, job costing, product configurator, light (work orderless manufacturing), shop floor control, labor reporting, lot/serial tracking, engineering change management, and CAD integration. MAS 500 also includes award-winning financial and distribution applications and fully supports co-products and by-products as well as disassembly procedures.
MAS 500 modules have won several awards, including three consecutive Microsoft “Best Technology Integration” Awards for leading the industry in technical superiority, as well as four consecutive Software Technical Assistance Recognition (STAR) awards for outstanding customer service. In addition, Best and Best partners provide professional application training and implementation to provide a smooth and effective transition to MAS 500.
Web-Based Applications – MAS 500 demonstrates its commitment to Microsoft’s technologies by developing powerful Web modules, including eSalesforce, eCustomer and eExecutive. These applications provide your salespeople, customers and senior staff with the information and system access they require.
Powerful Performance - MAS 500 was designed and built from the ground up for Microsoft platforms, and takes full advantage of the power offered by Microsoft SQL Server and the Windows operating system. Developed with Visual Basic and Visual C++, it’s object-oriented architecture is designed to facilitate complete integration with industry specific workflow, imaging, and office productivity applications. Best Enterprise was designed for Microsoft SQL Server from its inception and developed to support the latest features of current Microsoft releases. If your business software and Web site are critical to your success, you can benefit from the power of the business management performance leader—MAS 500 .
True multi-tasking - Best Enterprise Suite allows the opening of many forms during a session, and also allows many different processes to run simultaneously.
Best Enterprise Customization Tools – World-class customization tools provide a foundation for Visual Basic and Microsoft SQL Server business application development—the same toolkit used to build the MAS 500 product line. Designed to significantly reduce the cost of developing industry-specific VB/SQL business applications, these components allow you to improve system efficiency:
Customizer gives you the ability to easily modify screens and forms, even if you lack extensive program knowledge, to match your specific business processes, improve staff productivity, and achieve desired look and feel without making changes to the source code.
Application Framework lets you finish your development tasks faster and at a lower cost. It provides Visual Basic controls, wizards, and utilities to solve housekeeping issues, including concurrency, user interface, security models, data handling, and more—allowing your developers to be free to build add-on programs or interface controls, saving you development time and money.
Module Source Code, for code development and implementation, is available.
Workflow integration - If your business processes require sharing accounting data or reports, third-party workflow products can be utilized to readily access Best Enterprise Suite data.
Drill-downs and drill-arounds - Users can "drill-down" to track a transaction to its original source, or "drill-around" by using a right mouse-click to activate context-sensitive links between related screens of data in most MAS 500 forms.
Navigator - Our powerful search engine makes finding data easy, whether you prefer to key in your search criteria manually, or use the mouse as a high-speed browsing tool.
Best Enterprise Suite - An essential tool that allows manual or automatic generation of business letters, e-mail or spreadsheets using MAS 500 data. In fact, any file can be attached to any entity residing in the data.
Database-enforced security - In the Maintain Users task one login can be created, and maintained, for SQL Server and MAS 500 access. The security system in MAS 500 is structured around Security Groups in which access can be defined by task - such as Maintain Accounts - with one of four permission levels: Excluded, Display Only, Normal or Supervisory.
User-definable fields - MAS 500 includes extensive user-definable fields throughout the system. Many of these can be configured to contain a preset range of values, which can greatly expand reporting and tracking capabilities.
Batch processing - All transactions are posted in batches, which can be put on hold, set as private to one user, and verified using control amounts.
Flexibility -- MAS 500 maximizes user flexibility and scalability, and allows straightforward integration with other applications. Many aspects of the system - including menus, lookup windows and reports - can be customized without programming. If you require increased functionality, you can add any custom features you may need using Visual Basic. MAS 500's open architecture can result in shorter development cycles and lower customization costs.
Customizable Reporting
Reporting is an area in which MAS 500 systems shine. Crystal Reports® is the embedded graphical report writer and accompanies the System Manager module. In addition, FRx Advanced for Windows, the premiere graphical financial report writer, is bundled with the General Ledger module. These report writers offer a selection of preconfigured reports which can be customized and modified, then saved so that they can be run at any time.
Reporting power
Every report in MAS 500, including agings and registers, is written using Crystal Reports, the presentation quality report writer. The General Ledger Graphics chart pictured here presents Total Profits data in graph form; users can choose from a variety of similar graph formats or customize their own.
User-Friendly Help
Most of the documentation on MAS 500 tasks and procedures is contained in online help, eliminating the need for multiple copies of software manuals. Form level help that describes the current task and options is available on each screen. Field level help is available for each field contained within a form. This help feature describes the field and includes information on values the field should contain. A right mouse click on any field will always reveal this What's This? help, along with any drill-down or drill-around capabilities.
Online help
MAS 500 is an application rich in user-friendly online help. Every Best Enterprise Suite form contains form level help and every field contains What's This? help functionality. Much of the help dialogue contains shortcuts that will automatically start the task on which you are inquiring. Following the step by step instructions can then allow you to easily complete that task once it is started.
Additional System Capabilities
A number of additional features and tools accompany the MAS 500 system. These are available in most modules.
- MAS 500 automatically embed MAS 500 data in your business documents
- Memos - attach memos to MAS 500 entities
- Auto numbering - number customers, vendors, batches, etc. automatically
- Renaming - rename the ID's associated with MAS 500 entities
- Deferred printing - defer and manage print jobs for report printing after the fact
- Report export - export any report in a number of different formats
Sophisticated features - MAS 500 Office helps you correspond with, and track, business relations by allowing you to manually or automatically produce business letters or e-mail to a customer or vendor with relevant account information already embedded. A spreadsheet feature is offered in General Ledger that can be used to pipe financial data into Excel, where the data can be manipulated and piped back into MAS 500. Even files such as document images can be attached to entities and accessed from within MAS 500
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