A company known as State of the Art, Incorporated introduced software into the market in the mid-1980s. It was called the “Master Accounting Series for the 90s” and was known, for short, as MAS 90. Like many similar companies, State of the Art, Inc. gained traction in the market with their MAS 90 software by encouraging others to become resellers. Their resellers were, at the time, most often certified public accounts (CPAs), who used the software, liked it, and then recommended it to others.
MAS 90 is no longer strictly accounting software, CPAs are no longer the ones promoting/reselling it, and State of the Art, Inc. is no longer the company supporting it.
Today, Master Accounting Series for the 90s is resold through the partners and vendors associated with Sage. Sage supplies small to medium-sized businesses with accounting, payroll, enterprise resource planning, customer relationship management, and other types of business software to a worldwide community – over 6.1 million customers and employees in 24 countries. Trailing only giants like Oracle and SAP, Sage is the third largest ERP system supplier for businesses in the world.
In 2012, Sage’s software systems underwent a rebranding and MAS 90 became known as Sage 100 ERP.
In addition to a new name, MAS 90 got a facelift. It is an enterprise resource planning (ERP) system, which means that it covers more than accounting now – it covers everything. Although its primary target is small to medium-sized wholesale distributors, it has enhancements that make it suitable for other industries as well.
Sage 100 ERP is a very strong software that outshines its closest competitors: Microsoft Dynamics, QuickBooks, Epicor, and NetSuite.
So if you’ve been searching for a MAS 90 reseller but can’t find one, search no more – MAS 90 is now Sage 100 ERP, and at Oates & Company, we’re more than happy to help you with it.
