PENSACOLA, Fla., Nov. 5, 2004 -- Today, Best Software announced a partnership with e-Analytics Portal that brings powerful business intelligence capabilities to firms using CPAPractice Manager. Using the e-Analytics Portal, firms using CPAPractice Manager can quickly view and drill into their practice management data on-screen, affording them better information to help run their practices.

Accounting software packages generally offer a variety of reporting methods, all of which provide the accountant with valuable information, including tools such as standard reports, wizards, and report writers. What makes the practice management of accounting firms unique is the multitude of management philosophies found in both large and small firms, and the wide variety of reporting requirements needed to meet those philosophies. CPAPractice Manager's reporting capabilities have just increased significantly, providing a solution to this reporting dilemma, through e-Analytics' on-screen reporting analysis. Accountants can now control the parameters by which they choose to analyze their firms through a variety of simple drag and drop and drill down capabilities. This quick, easy access to a wide array of key performance indicators affords continual monitoring of the firm's strengths and weaknesses. In addition to on-screen customized results, dashboard reports can also be created.

Further enhancing CPAPractice Manager's reporting power; e-Analytics is fully integrated with Microsoft Office, offering additional benefits, including the creation of PowerPoint slides for chart and graph views, export to Excel spreadsheets for statistical analysis, and Map Analyzer for geographical representations. With convenient, easy access from the desktop, and with predefined views designed to the meet accountants' needs, the data can be scheduled to refresh nightly ensuring business analysis reflects the latest operating results.

Today in a related release, Best Software also announced the availability of a new Custom Library for CPAPractice Manager customers. This new professional services offering is available via annual subscription, and provides firms with a collection of CPASoftware's most popular customized reports. Through tools like the e-Analytics Portal and the Custom Library, CPASoftware continues to provide an abundance of tools designed to help accountants better manage their practices.

"By adding e-Analytics and our Custom Library to the CPAPractice Manager application, Best Software now offers a revolutionary combination of analysis tools to managers running accounting firms," said Ray Jimison, executive vice president and general manager, CPASoftware. "Never before has such critical business analysis information been available at accountants' fingertips through a practice management program."

Pricing and Availability

The e-Analytics Portal is currently available from CPASoftware, by calling 800-272-7123. Pricing varies depending on the number of users.

About e-Analytics Portal

e-Analytics Portal is a reporting and business intelligence software company specializing in mid-market solutions. For many years, our staff of accountants and software developers have been working on corporate reporting for large, multi-national enterprises. e-Analytics Portal is a sister company to Dynamic Software Solutions, the top Best Software/ACCPAC Reseller in the USA. e-Analytics Portal currently integrates with CPA Software, ACCPAC Advantage Series, ACCPAC Pro Series, MAS 90 MAS 200, and MAS 500 and can be connected to any standard database; future integration with additional Best Software products, such as Abra HR, is planned. For more information about e-Analytics Portal, please contact 305-461-9191.

About Best Software

Best Software offers leading business management products and services that give more than 2.3 million small and mid-sized customers in North America the insight for success throughout the lives of their businesses. Its parent company, The Sage Group plc (London: SGE.L), supports 4.3 million customers worldwide. For more than 25 years, Best Software has delivered easy-to-use, scalable and customizable applications through its portfolio of leading brands, including Abra, ACCPAC, ACT!, BusinessVision, CPASoftware, FAS, MAS 90, MAS 200, MAS 500, MIP, Peachtree, SalesLogix, Timberline, among many others. For more information, please visit the Web site at http://www.bestsoftware.com/moreinfo or call (866) 308-BEST.

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