Reporting and Other Tools

Within its suite of reporting and other tools, Sage Timberline offers the following applications.

Address Book — Address Book provides a central location from which to access and manage all of your company's business contacts and related information. Included with the purchase of any Sage Timberline application, Address Book ensures that everyone always has the most recent and complete contact information within instant reach. Changes or updates to contact information, such as an address change, made in one area of the company are automatically reflected throughout all Sage Timberline applications and made available to all users throughout your organization. For companies already using Sage Timberline products, Address Book contact data can be easily synchronized with contacts in existing Accounts Payable, Accounts Receivable and Estimating databases.

Crystal Reports — Transform your information into presentation-quality reports. Simple design tools and built-in assistance guides you through common report-building tasks such as connecting to your data source, selecting fields and records, grouping, sorting, and formatting. A wide range of standard formatting customization features allow you to select colors and fonts, include images, and add other elements such as your company logo. Report templates, including both formatting and data access operations, can be customized, saved, and applied consistently across a variety of reports.

Information Assistant — Information Assistant is a productivity tool for employees who need access to accounting information, but don't need the Sage Timberline core accounting on their desktop. By combining the power of reports and inquiries with automated issue tracking, Information Assistant helps employees work more efficiently, make better decisions, and stay informed.

Inquiry Designer — There's no reason to print a report whenever you need a quick answer that's in the system. Sage Timberline inquiries instantly deliver information on-screen. Sage Timberline accounting applications come with more than 100 standard inquiries, each of which provides on-screen access to business and accounting information. With Inquiry Designer, you're able to customize the presentation of the information contained in each of these inquiries, so that you can access the data most relevant to you or create your own from scratch. When designing inquiries you can include data from any Sage Timberline application, and apply any formula, condition or note you choose.

ODBC — Sage Timberline's ODBC (Open Database Connectivity) allows the free flow of information between Sage Timberline and other ODBC-compliant programs, such as Microsoft Office applications. You select the Sage Timberline data you want to access, then link it to your other program. Once the link is established, you can easily keep your Sage Timberline accounting information current in the other program. You can also use other software programs to write to certain fields in your Sage Timberline system. For example, use ODBC to transfer a vendor database from another program into Sage Timberline.

Report Designer — Report Designer gives you the ability to quickly and easily modify Sage Timberline's 500-plus reports or create your own. Building reports is as simple as pointing and clicking on any field in Sage Timberline's database and dropping it into the report template. Reports can be totaled at any level, and conditions can be applied to print only the information you want to see. Once designed, reports can be placed on the main toolbar, which can be customized for each employee, giving them quick access to the reports and inquiries they use most often. For added convenience, you can also create macros to print a specific set of reports with a single click of the mouse.