I had a chance to install and demonstrate the latest Greytrix integration engine for MAS and SageCRM called GUMU and was very impressed. 

Seemless ERP/CRM integration has been the holy grail for SMB organizations as long as I can remember but, I have never seen any vendor really deliver on this without it being expensive, clunky, unreliable or just plain poorly designed and usually, it's all of the above. I sort of dismissed the Greytrix GUMU software a few years ago when Sage announced that they had developed their own integration and on the surface, it appeared to deliver similar features and capabilies and after all it was developed and supported by Sage directly so why use a third party alternative?

The answer is because it flat out installs, configures and starts working in about 30 minutes including importing all of your Customers, Products, Drop down list for Quotes and Orders and Sales People.  You also don't need to allow your CRM users direct access to MAS like you do with the EES solution from Sage which will save some sleepless nights for your accounting department wondering what the sales department has messed with in MAS.

The GUMU solution works exactly like you would expect a well designed and well implemented integration should including instant real-time syncronization of new and changed company and order related data.  All of the typical accounting related information is right there in the CRM system including detailed invoices, items purchased, aging, sales orders and more.  When creating a Quote or an Order, GUMU allows you to choose your products, inventory levels and pricing from either the CRM list, MAS list or both unlike the EES system that opens up a MAS SO screen and then copies the information back into CRM.

The pricing of GUMU may also end up being cheaper then the Sage EES solution depending on your requirements so if you are interested in learning more, just let us know.