Sage Intacct's Latest Release Deep Dive

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Emily Madere: Okay. Hello, everybody. Welcome to the Unofficial Sage Intacct podcast. I'm Emily Amadier and I'm joined, of course, by, uh, by Matt. And you will see that we are missing Doug. He's on a plane right now and couldn't join us, but that's okay. We have a wonderful guest. Um, so I'd like to introduce one of my colleagues, Skye Doolan. Skye, do you want to [00:00:30] introduce yourself?

Skye Duhon: Sure. I am Skye Dugal, and I've been with our firm here for quite some time. Eisneramper. Um, probably going on 17 years. Um, I, um, am in Louisiana, and I love working with Sage Intacct and our clients. So I help our clients who have already implemented Intacct kind of continue to take advantage of some of these release notes and move forward in what they're working with in Sage [00:01:00] Intacct.

Matt Lescault: So what do you guys live? Close to each other?

Skye Duhon: Um, like an hour and a half.

Matt Lescault: Oh, not that close. So it's not like you had a happy hour every week, and, you know, talk about the firm.

Skye Duhon: Only wish.

Matt Lescault: I was trying, I was hoping, you know.

Emily Madere: But Sky. Sky lives in a in a pretty interesting place. Um, and Sky sky's an avid listener of the podcast. Let's be clear, she listens to every single episodes and then tells me she listens to every single episode, and it really makes me cringe. I'm not gonna lie. [00:01:30]

Matt Lescault: I like it, I like it. I don't know if I believe you, but I like it.

Emily Madere: No she does. She came prepared with a joke. She knows about the acronyms thing we have going on like she is. Come prepared.

Matt Lescault: Okay, I tried, I forgot about the acronyms thing. Let's not bring that back. I think I stole the money.

Skye Duhon: Okay. Got it. It's.

Emily Madere: It's sky, I think I think throughout the firm you have a you were a a a A lady. We have we have a couple different folks [00:02:00] at the firm. But I think in the last meeting you had with us some higher ups at Eisneramper, I think you you were called the Gravy Lady.

Skye Duhon: Oh, stop.

Matt Lescault: Oh, oh. Why is.

Skye Duhon: We do notneed to go there emily.

Matt Lescault: We absolutely. We absolutely have to go there. What does that mean?

Skye Duhon: Um. Well, see, I'm from an area within Louisiana that's like our own little bubble. And apparently unknown [00:02:30] to me at the time. We cook gravy very differently from other parts of Louisiana. And I didn't know this until I started having a dinnertime conversation at a conference with, um, some of my coworkers. And it was determined that I, we hear, just cook gravy differently. And not everyone likes gravy. And that surprised me also.

Matt Lescault: And then who doesn't like gravy? That's that's that's that's ridiculous. [00:03:00]

Skye Duhon: Well, they were not they were not from Louisiana, to be fair. They were from north somewhere. So it you know it. I, I don't know. To me everyone loves gravy because I love gravy. And that resulted in, I don't know, 20 minute, 30 minute conversation about gravy where by I became known as gravy lady and I'd rather not be.

Emily Madere: No, no.

Emily Madere: No, it's a good thing.

Skye Duhon: It's not a good.

Matt Lescault: But but does this mean that your [00:03:30] gravy is superior to all other gravy?

Skye Duhon: No.

Skye Duhon: No, no. That was not that.

Skye Duhon: Was not the intent. The the the conversation was just about the fact that it's different. They're they're made differently. And so then I became very intrigued by how other people make gravy because it is just very different.

Matt Lescault: Okay.

Emily Madere: So all of our listeners, if you make gravy, Please message guy on LinkedIn. She would love to know.

Skye Duhon: Absolutely.

Matt Lescault: All I'm saying is we've gone down [00:04:00] a gravy rabbit hole here. We need we need to get ourselves out of it. But I want I want to take this offline, have a different conversation about it. I personally like gravy. Um, anybody that doesn't like gravy is just not like, has never lived, in my opinion. Now, a side note before we get into anything serious, I just have to bring up, I don't know, have either of you guys seen the show, your honor, that's on Netflix right now. It's based in New Orleans. I just I just thought about it. I just finished binge watching it, you know, on my travels. It's a really [00:04:30] good show, but it doesn't paint a good light to New Orleans.

Emily Madere: Well, we did.

Matt Lescault: Just have a crime.

Emily Madere: Inmates escape from prison. Are you in the news? Do you know about that?

Matt Lescault: Uh, not. Not currently, but I'm sure.

Emily Madere: Oh.

Emily Madere: Yeah. 11 inmates. It's all over national news. Like they escaped from New Orleans prison, and they're on the run.

Matt Lescault: Was that I was traveling for the last two weeks. So yes, today I am, uh, lacking any knowledge outside of my own little nucleus of a family. [00:05:00]

Emily Madere: Good for you. I'm happy you had that time, but. Okay. To get us back on track, you can look, I'll. I'll watch that. That the show later to get us back on track. We're talking about the Sage Intacct 2025 R2 highlights. Yes. Get us started. I, uh, pulled Sage's mission that they released with every, uh, release. And that is to knock down barriers so that everyone can thrive.

Matt Lescault: Okay.

Emily Madere: That is it. That's their mission statement going into every [00:05:30] release.

Matt Lescault: It's very short and succinct.

Emily Madere: I think it's kind of a little basic.

Matt Lescault: Well, what's what's interesting is it's so basic. But if you look at the release notes from this quarter, there is so much and I'm so happy I'm not the one to to speak to it. So. With no further ado, give it to us. What? What's what's the number one thing that that caught your eyes, uh, on the on these release notes?

Emily Madere: Um, so I think [00:06:00] they, they split things into different categories. So strength and financials, industry insights, automation capabilities and then platform scalability. That was a hard word to say. But Sky I guess maybe let's start in strength and financials. Where did you see an item shine the most?

Skye Duhon: Sure I love this copilot stuff that continues to be rolled out and enhanced because to me that is so exciting. Um, this release has a [00:06:30] copilot Subledger reconciliation assistant, which is an AI tool that helps auto generate reconciliation reports. So it actually detects and highlights some discrepancies between the Subledger and the general ledger and then tells you about them, provides drill down and this is going to definitely save time. Um, it's going to save time in month end closes and running reports individually because it's providing that insight to you directly. It is in early adopter [00:07:00] right now though, so it's important to note that not everyone has access to this yet.

Matt Lescault: I'm really interested in this. I mean, I as an outsource provider, uh, we see so many degradation between the GL and the Subledger, and it's one of those things like you're always driving back down homes. Like, if it's not balanced, it's not balanced. And this is one of those things that like that's not a fun task to do. So this really is a huge change for, uh, for the industry when it comes to like managing a subledger accounting software. So I'm, um, I'm glad [00:07:30] that you highlighted this first, because it's one of those things that gets me excited about where where copilot's going in the future.

Emily Madere: And Sky, as you're talking to clients about like Copilot, what are some things that that you say? What are some things that they're saying back to you?

Skye Duhon: It's definitely interesting to hear from the clients because they're on, you know, all ends of the spectrum. There are the early adopters who are very excited about it and want to take advantage of any of this copilot functionality [00:08:00] immediately, but there are also the other ones who are very hesitant and they're like, oh, it's good to know, but I'm going to keep that, you know, in my back pocket and look back at it later. Um, so it's just very interesting to see kind of where everything falls. And the fact that intact is at the forefront of this is is amazing, I love it.

Matt Lescault: Awesome.

Skye Duhon: So another wonderful feature that was released within the Strengthen Financials section is the affiliate entity [00:08:30] dimension. So this is actually a new standard dimension that automates intercompany transaction tagging for those with a consolidation subscription. So either global or domestic. And it is going to help reduce the number of general ledger accounts that are needed. It really simplifies consolidations and accelerates that financial close. Um, so that's another great one.

Matt Lescault: That's really interesting. Can you can you go a little bit more in depth? Because I think that has a really big impact into how consolidations work and what that means [00:09:00] from a user perspective. And so I don't want to gloss over that too much if I if I may.

Skye Duhon: Yeah, absolutely. It is definitely going to because it's now a dimension. It's going to add a level when you're looking at reporting from an elimination perspective. And so it's going to help you with those eliminations. And actually being able to build reports in a better way to look at that inter entity, um, transaction volume and [00:09:30] all the details of what's going on there.

Matt Lescault: Yeah, I guess what I think about is sort of like in, uh, in the way we've been used to doing it, to actually go in and reconcile and report around inter companies. It was a little bit more, uh, it was a little more cumbersome to do. And it sounds like through this tagging and so forth, it will allow us to really dig into that and find anomalies potentially faster. Is that is that a safe a safe thing to say?

Skye Duhon: Absolutely. This is going to be huge for anyone using the intercompany transactions with [00:10:00] consolidations.

Matt Lescault: I mean, I'm already excited because I use global consolidations for my own company. I can tell you every once in a while somebody will post directly to the do to do from and I'm out of bounds. I'm like, I got to go find this now. Not me personally, but.

Skye Duhon: Of course. Yeah it's great.

Emily Madere: And so there were some updates made to the CRM Salesforce integration.

Skye Duhon: There definitely were. There's now, um, more bidirectional sync happening between [00:10:30] Intact and Salesforce that allows more flexibility with your quote to cache data between the two systems. So you can now actually present and receive invoices directly within Salesforce and view all that data back in Sage Intacct as well. So that's really going to enhance visibility and speed up cash flow tracking.

Emily Madere: Yeah.

Emily Madere: And so for our listeners there's a there's a standard integration with Salesforce [00:11:00] that Sage Intacct has uh, but then if you need any additional functionality you have to work within Salesforce partner.

Matt Lescault: Yep.

Emily Madere: So Scott, you've you've worked with a couple of partners, I think folks who already have the standard integration capabilities and then who's built their own.

Skye Duhon: Not necessarily with Salesforce. Um, so with other tools for sure. But Salesforce is one that we actually don't that I'm aware of. Have anyone, um, using that integration?

Matt Lescault: Yeah. [00:11:30] So the advanced CRM integration is kind of a prebuilt integration. So Salesforce and Intacct are on the DB uh Oracle Database Infrastructure, so they have a very close tie with them. The advanced CRM integration always has been built around a templated approach. So sort of standard use of the fields and format of Salesforce when it comes out of the box. Historically, organizations that have had uh, more custom developed Salesforce deployments have [00:12:00] had troubles using these advanced CRM integration. From my understanding of this, uh, of this upgrade, it's getting us closer to being able to support a little bit more of the customization. But specifically with Sky talked about around the payments integration. What I've seen is organizations have to move away from the advanced CRM integration or not be able to use it, maybe not move away from it if you're already using it. It kind of fits, but, uh, use either an ipass solution we brought. We've had data blend here before. You can use Ipass that that that does [00:12:30] that or, uh, Emily, you've given a shout out to Venn Technologies in the past as a, as a major, player in the Sage Intacct space of doing custom integrations between Salesforce and, uh, and Intacct when it comes to those really, really intricate, custom developed uses of Salesforce.

Emily Madere: Yes, and I just kind of wanted to highlight that for our listeners. Um, yeah. And there there are a ton of other integrators. I do know that for a couple years ago, they won the [00:13:00] platinum marketplace partner for Sage. Um, and there's some really good people over there. So another one on our list is one that actually comes at no cost. And that is the financial reporting guidelines.

Skye Duhon: So this one's really great. I can't wait to use it. Um, this is what is going to help better your reporting with an intact in your financial reporting. So they're going to actually have a pop up appear when you're [00:13:30] saving a financial report, and it's going to suggest optimizations for better time, runtime efficiencies for better design and stakeholder clarity. Is that no cost, as Emily mentioned, and it really is going to help with determining how to best create your report within that financial reporting tool.

Emily Madere: And so, you know, whenever we're talking about that financial report writer in the sales cycle, um, Karen always [00:14:00] likes to mention, um, you know, you can take an eight hour course on the report writer and that's favorite functionality inside of Sage Intacct. So this is really going to help the user, you know, build those reports quicker. It's it's going to prompt them to do stuff. So it's kind of like copilot almost. Right. There's a prompting available. And they can make changes on the fly for sure. Do you have anyone using this right now?

Skye Duhon: I'm not aware of anyone using this right now though. It just came out [00:14:30] and I think everyone will actually be able to see this when they start saving reports. So I don't I don't have anyone specific in mind that's using this, but I think it's going to be a great tool for everyone.

Matt Lescault: I think it's pretty fair to say that especially, you know, we're less than a month from the releases happening, you know, and we're all so used to doing things the way we've always done it. It sometimes takes a little bit of time for adoption of of this. I think that's why it's so important for us to talk about these new capabilities within, uh, within [00:15:00] Intacct. Because the faster we adopt these, these capabilities, the better we are at our job and the more value that we drive to our clients as partners, but also how teams internally better use intact and incorporate its capabilities within within them. So I'm excited to see how this is used. And maybe next time or in a few months, we can sort of get a gauge as to where where all these release notes are going.

Skye Duhon: Absolutely. I love that idea because that's why I do what I do. I [00:15:30] love talking to our clients and making sure they're aware of these things that are now available, because not everyone has time in their day to go out and read all the release notes. So that's where we can really help out and make sure they're aware of these new features and can take advantage.

Matt Lescault: Absolutely. Now, another one that you were going to talk about is tell us about what's going on with fixed assets.

Skye Duhon: Um, sure. So Fixed Assets has had quite a few updates with this release. Um, this is [00:16:00] to be clear, the new fixed asset product within Intacct, um, they've added a bit of functionality. They actually added a new depreciation method for custom declining balance, which is popular. And that's a great enhancement. Um, they're also added the ability to transfer assets between entities and then also revert those transfers back if needed. And so that's going to be huge um, within this space. But there's also [00:16:30] a a new depreciation roll forward report. So a lot of big things with the fixed asset module that came out with this release. It was a big one.

Matt Lescault: Well let's not say too much of big things. This is like a tax. The tax person like huge. You're right. Penny, um I think a lot of ways that it might get a snooze for some people, but it's really important to the accuracy of the books. And I'm really excited about that. And and I see that it came with some tax compliancy, some regional support. So it's not just about fixed assets, but regionally. And for that point, I [00:17:00] think you're going to talk a little bit about some of the tax compliance enhancements and some of the regions.

Skye Duhon: Absolutely. So Canada also had some tax compliance specific information related to allowing for custom discount terms. Now with GST support and then New Zealand and Singapore now an early adopter only, but it's out of the box GST setup to simplify configuration and tracking as well. So that was that was exciting.

Matt Lescault: Now hold on. I'm usually the one that knows about [00:17:30] the the international stuff, but I think you're you're you're bringing something to the table. Is New Zealand and Singapore uh early adopters as regions.

Skye Duhon: I think it's just the tax compliance.

Matt Lescault: Tax.

Skye Duhon: That's the early adopter for those different regions. Yes.

Matt Lescault: I think it'll be important for us to get a better idea of like the rollout of intact. Not that, uh, we have to focus too much on that. Um, so, uh, I really appreciate.

Emily Madere: Always interested in what's happening outside of the United States.

Matt Lescault: No, I'm always interested [00:18:00] in knowing what, how how the product is being developed from a global perspective because it impacts the entire marketplace. And what I mean by that, you.

Emily Madere: Said that very beautifully.

Matt Lescault: I try I don't get beautifully very much, you know, in compliments. So I will take it anytime I can get it. And now I have to be self-deprecating because I don't have Doug here to beat me up. So I got to do it for myself. Um, So, Emily, I think I think we're on to the next section. What's the next section we got going on?

Emily Madere: Yeah. Platform power. There [00:18:30] was a couple things of note. Um, import service, workspace, uh, enhanced list experience and domain authentication for email. So one, I'm excited to it's been kind of like every release, but that's the enhanced, uh, list experience. Um, so if we talk about this one, I've talked about it in the past when these release notes come up. Um, but it's changing the list, views and contacts so that they're more powerful, they're more customizable, um, and intact. And I kind of have a almost like a QuickBooks [00:19:00] feel to it, the way they're able to, um, what you're able to do with them. So they're rolling out, you know, more lists, those types of list views to different types of lists and A-Z lists a lot.

Matt Lescault: I'm sorry, did you say list?

Emily Madere: List? Yes.

Skye Duhon: I was going to say I know you've I've heard you talk about this before on the podcast.,

Emily Madere: Yeah.

Emily Madere: Yeah, it's it's hard to talk about it and you really have to see it.

Skye Duhon: Absolutely. Yeah, [00:19:30] that's a good one. I really my favorite in this section is actually the importing the updates to the import files. So it, it allows you to view field level errors in real time, which is amazing and very helpful to anyone who has done imports and intact in the past. It also is allowing you to import from multiple tabs and even have formulas, [00:20:00] and it still will catch it, which is wonderful. Um, so that's going to greatly reduce the reliance on error logs and back and forth fixes between waiting on your email to come through with the errors, and then going back to fix what you need to fix.

Matt Lescault: Who really loves data migration?

Skye Duhon: Um.

Emily Madere: I can't say anyone is super excited about data migration.

Matt Lescault: Sky was about to say I am.

Emily Madere: I mean, listen, I don't know.

Skye Duhon: Listen, I love a good Excel [00:20:30] spreadsheet that I can then import and troubleshoot. What? Like, I am such a nerd when it comes to troubleshooting certain things and figuring out what in the world went wrong and how to fix it. Um, and imports are really are really that place.

Matt Lescault: She's I don't think she's ever allowed to be on a call when I'm like, talking about Excel hell and how Intacct gets you out of Excel. And Excel is old and we don't want to be in Excel.

Matt Lescault: We don't I.

Skye Duhon: I 100% agree. We don't want to be in Excel. We want our reporting out of intact. But [00:21:00] I also I also kind of enjoy that because I'm a nerd.

Matt Lescault: I get it, I respect it. I don't just go on record.

Skye Duhon: Caught that. Thanks.

Matt Lescault: Well, let's, let's let's move into industry insights. What do we got for industry insights guys.

Emily Madere: Yeah, there was a couple of things coming to the the nonprofit space. Um, EMR connect, which is definitely want to talk about projects inside of Ntac. There's a new connector. There's a there was actually quite a few things [00:21:30] happening in the in the industry insights. Um, but I guess Skye, what is what is what was one of your favorites?

Skye Duhon: So one of my favorites was probably the fundraising powered by donor. Perfect in, in general, um, availability. It's it's designed for nonprofit organizations. We have historically I don't currently have anyone [00:22:00] using donor perfect within with Sage Intacct, but I have spoken with organizations who use donor perfect and looking for, you know, another solution, another way to better handle their data. Um, so this one's just really exciting for me to see that, that they're there including donor perfect as well.

Matt Lescault: So I think this is just an announcement that it's going from early adopter to general availability, uh, which is very impactful. So it was very limited. And I know that I had certain customers [00:22:30] that want to get into it and couldn't. So this really gives it gives an opportunity to see more adoption of donor perfect, which is uh, which is exciting.

Skye Duhon: So exciting. I love that one. The EMR connect dashboards is another one. Um, that's very exciting in this, in this area because, uh, we do have several clients who use the the EMR connect functionality. But, uh, I will note that these dashboards that have been made available [00:23:00] are only available if the quickstart template is not for profit or general. So if you set up contact with a different quickstart template, currently these these dashboards aren't available.

Matt Lescault: Be interesting to see if they're getting incorporated into the TPS templates, the Trusted Practice Solutions templates or not. Um, we use this quite a bit. And EMR, just to be clear, is for healthcare organizations and nonprofits. I think, Scott, you kind of alluded to that, but sometimes it's kind of focused more on healthcare, and there's a lot of healthcare within the nonprofit [00:23:30] space. And we see the EMR connect, uh, adopted a lot in that space. And so enhancements are in this is really, uh, really well received.

Skye Duhon: Absolutely.

Emily Madere: A little bit of backstory about the EMR connect. That product was developed by Wifli because they're they're pretty large in the healthcare space. I think their EMR that they connect to the most is point like point click care PCC. It is for like [00:24:00] nursing homes. So it's pretty interesting. Um, I talk a lot about connect during the sales cycle to those healthcare nonprofit organizations.

Emily Madere: Okay.

Emily Madere: What else what else we got? We have a lot of projects. Like construction, um, items. Did you want to touch on on those?

Skye Duhon: Uh. Certainly can. So we have an update to whip release relief, which [00:24:30] was really important. So automated whip relief. Finally. Um, within Sage Intacct. So it shifts your whip from an asset to an expense account upon recognizing your revenue. And there's a new permission, um, associated with it that you have to go update your user roles if you want to have access to this, if you're using, um, construction or projects. So it aligns, um, with your revenue recognition to, to [00:25:00] help alleviate, you know, that manual process. This one's big in my opinion.

Emily Madere: Yeah, I was talking with someone yesterday and that was the first question that they asked they they were they were project based. Y'all do with. Yes. Yes. Um we do.

Matt Lescault: I have I have nothing to add to this. You know that this is your guys kind of bailiwick. I'm not in the construction space, so I'm just going to be quiet.

Emily Madere: First time for everything.

Emily Madere: Sorry.

Emily Madere: Doug, [00:25:30] I, I.

Matt Lescault: I got it, I got it it's okay.

Skye Duhon: Nice. Um, but another one that's important would be time sheet allocations with Sage intelligent time. So I don't have a lot of experience with Sage intelligent time. I have had several clients ask about this though, and it's continues to pique my interest. Um, so this particular update [00:26:00] is related to predefined allocation rules to distribute time during entry. So it's great for organizations with shared employees or multi grant funding. Um and so it's just going to again decrease that manual work you're having to do.

Matt Lescault: My assumption here and I haven't seen it. So you know somebody's going to beat me up for being wrong. But my assumption is if we think about transaction allocations within the GL that they've kind of done the same type of capability within the timesheet solution of creating a [00:26:30] allocation methodology that are kind of fixed, as opposed to always having to use dynamic allocations to allocate your time out, because what we'd always have to do within, within time with, with Sage intelligent time is we would have to, uh, either use transaction definitions or dynamic allocations to post to the GL as opposed to in time. And so I'm thinking that this is going to allow allocation to be done in the time sheet itself, which is interesting.

Skye Duhon: I guess I think that's [00:27:00] what it is as well. That's my understanding. Um, again, I don't have anyone using it today, but I always am interested to learn more because it always it intrigues me. The all the intelligent stuff, the copilot, the machine learning, the. It's all so intriguing.

Matt Lescault: Yeah.

Emily Madere: Well, let's kind of move on to some of the automation capabilities that they've released in this release. So there's been a couple of them to note. Ap automation purchasing, which we've talked about that in some of the previous releases. Employee expense automation via mobile app and [00:27:30] supplies inventory enhancements.

Skye Duhon: So AP automation and purchasing is just very needed. Um, this is probably the most requested thing that I see from our clients who are already using AP automation or want to is that it will work with purchasing. And so we we did get one of our clients in the early adopter program and they're trying it out. So it seems to be really, [00:28:00] really good. Uh, I'm I can't wait for more feedback from them because I haven't gotten a lot. But I know that as it continues to learn with the machine learning, it's going to get better and better. It's just going to be great. Take a lot of manual processes off their plates.

Matt Lescault: What I find interesting about sorry. Go ahead Emily.

Emily Madere: No, I was just going to say the AP automation with purchasing it is integrated with AI. So that is an AI solution that Intel has.

Matt Lescault: I just don't know. I [00:28:30] don't know whether it is or isn't part of technically Copilot or it's a.

Skye Duhon: I don't think it is. I don't think it is. I think it's um, it's it's technically more on the machine learning side of things from what I've gathered. It is AI, but it's not affiliated or hasn't been affiliated with Copilot that I've seen.

Matt Lescault: Correct. And so what what I see, what I where I see the gap being filled by. [00:29:00] Uh intacct. Is that a lot of the AP automation products that are out there do not actually have the purchasing component that's fully baked in. And I don't even say fully baked in, but fully capable. And we've seen a huge investment in that from purchasing to bill, uh, creation or matching and things of that nature. So I'm with you. I think this is super needed.

Skye Duhon: The other item on this particular one is that with the other solutions that are integrating into intact, you know, there are so many sensors you have to figure out [00:29:30] and so many things because you're going in between the two systems, whereas this is going to be innately within intact. So you're not going to have the sync concerns above everything else as well.

Matt Lescault: Awesome.

Emily Madere: Um, and I would be careful for those who do need to be HIPAA compliance. Like I don't believe that this is the compliance. I would definitely ask.

Skye Duhon: It is not. Good point Emily. It is. It is not. So if you do have HIPAA compliance, you're not able to get the AP automation at all and [00:30:00] remain HIPAA compliant, I guess.

Emily Madere: Yes.

Emily Madere: How about employee expense automation via mobile app? So when I was, you know, researching and reading on this one, I mean, I was kind of impressed. I think, um, Expensify is one of intacs, you know, strongest marketplace partners, and then they're coming out with a expense solution. What do you think about that?

Matt Lescault: I like to see it because this is one of the big pieces [00:30:30] of like, I don't think Intacct has hit the marketplace in the capability spectrum. Is that is that sky?

Skye Duhon: I, Ihaven't seen it, but that would be my, my gut feeling as well. Um, so this is a part of Sage intelligent time. And so like I mentioned, we don't really have any clients using that yet, but it looks like because it's in its early adopter, um, area. So that means they're [00:31:00] they're working on it. Obviously, any of those other solutions that have already been out there for quite some time are going to have more capabilities, more flexibility, that type of thing. But it's good to know that they're moving in this direction. I have wanted a Sage Intacct app for quite some time.

Matt Lescault: And you want a full app, right? You want the full app?

Skye Duhon: Yes, I do.

Skye Duhon: I do. I want an app. And at some point during one of the conferences I like thought that I heard they were coming out with an app, but [00:31:30] turns out I misheard something or I don't know, but I just want a nap. I understand I can access it from the web and that's great. And I pull it up on my phone occasionally to do something real quick. But I just want an app.

Matt Lescault: See.

Skye Duhon: Y'all. Y'all talk to Sage Intacct for me.

Matt Lescault: I don't know, like, I think we have to have a better poll.

Emily Madere: We're unofficial.

Skye Duhon: Got it.

Matt Lescault: Exactly. But I would also say, like, if we're going to ask, we got to do it right. Because you can't. There's no way to get intact in [00:32:00] an app now. Ap. Yeah, yeah.

Skye Duhon: Yeah.

Matt Lescault: I mean view. Ah, yeah. But I mean, I think it gets a lot. I mean, I look at how long it took Intuit to do an app, and that app is like, how much can you really do? I mean, unless I'm a contractor going down the street and and doing an easy invoice, it's not it's not the full system. So I feel you.

Skye Duhon: But I feel like.

Matt Lescault: Reports.

Skye Duhon: Yeah.

Skye Duhon: So right now when you pull it up, it's just like [00:32:30] approvals approval dashboard. Okay. Great. But I want to see more than that I just I and otherwise you have to go to the full view and it's it's limiting. Um, when you're, you know looking at it on a, on a smaller device, there's many more pieces and parts that could be available within an app than just like the approvals, in my opinion.

Matt Lescault: I don't disagree.

Skye Duhon: Good to know, y'all put in a word.

Matt Lescault: This. This is the word we're gonna, [00:33:00] you know.

Skye Duhon: Okay, okay.

Emily Madere: And do we have anything of note for supplies, inventory enhancements?

Skye Duhon: Um.

Skye Duhon: Supplies, inventory enhancements. So. There are customizable pick lists where you can tailor formats to match internal processes, um, and link requisitions to existing purchase orders to prevent duplicate entries, [00:33:30] which is great. Um, those are just a few of the notes.

Matt Lescault: Yeah. I think what happens here is I don't think I have a lot to add, except for inventory is one of the sticking points within intact. If we want to be really honest with ourselves and we don't have a full inventory solution. So we're focused on supplies inventory because it does succeed in that space outside of other spaces. And so I think what we're going to see if I had a crystal ball [00:34:00] is we're going to see a continued development and deployment of the capabilities within inventory. But we got to get supplies done. Right. And so they're taking care of some of those gaps. And then we're going to start seeing advanced capabilities come from that. Because I don't see how you really hit construction without having a true inventory. I don't see how you continue to to invest in sdmo the manufacturing side, uh, module for for intact unless you really get this this right. So what I can hope is this [00:34:30] is kind of a, uh, a sense of what's coming or what's being focused on.

Skye Duhon: I hope that you are correct in that crystal ball guesswork.

Matt Lescault: My crystal ball is like. 100%.

Emily Madere: Skye's mentioned. She'd love that. What is what is in your crystal ball? What would you love to see?

Matt Lescault: Love to see who? Um.

Emily Madere: Yeah, I gotta have one. You only have time for one.

Matt Lescault: No, [00:35:00] I think for me, I would really like to see the the data migration. A true data migration wizard for Intacct. Because I think that when I, when I talk about implementations, I talk about how do we focus on forward and not how do we look backwards. And that would be such a major advantage point for getting into deals. Um, and uh, addressing [00:35:30] some of the barriers for the small mid market to upper SMEs. Quite frankly.

Skye Duhon: I 100% agree, even though I said I liked Excel work and troubleshooting imports and all the things. I agree that would be game changer. Um, to have the the automation Around getting between two different systems and moving up to intact.

Skye Duhon: Right?

Matt Lescault: And to be fair, Scott, I was not picking on you on that one. It's just one of those [00:36:00]things that. I wasn't.

Skye Duhon: All good. No, I do, but I'm in agreement. I very much agree that automation surrounding data migration would be huge.

Emily Madere: Okay.

Emily Madere: Well, um, let's go ahead and and and wrap up. So any final thoughts? Something you'd love to see from the release of everything we talked about?

Matt Lescault: I mean, I think I'll just like, like finish where I started. I am still [00:36:30] continuously impressed with the amount of enhancements and changes that are delivered on a quarterly basis, how it continues to drive, um, uh, features and, uh, fill gaps for the customer base and us partners. Um, obviously, I don't want to I don't want to give too much like pump, you know, and so forth and say, hey, there's more work to be done, let's get it done. And let's let's not get complacent on it. But, uh, I still see this, and I and I think this is why intact is the leader in the ERP space. Period. [00:37:00]

Emily Madere: Period.

Skye Duhon: Period.

Emily Madere: Sage is breaking down barriers, but okay. Well, Skye, since you were an avid listener of this podcast, you know how we ended. So my question to you is I'm gonna do my best dog impression. Do you have an absolutely horrible, awful dad joke?

Skye Duhon: That was.

Skye Duhon: Great.

Emily Madere: I did not sound like him, but that was.

Skye Duhon: That was great.

Skye Duhon: Um, I do I do have a dad joke, um, that I really hope hasn't [00:37:30] been on here before, but, um, because I haven't heard every single episode, just some of them, to be fair. Um, but here's my question. What are a computer's favorite snacks? Any guesses?

Matt Lescault: Chips.

Skye Duhon: Close. Any guesses? Emily.

Emily Madere: Uh. Mouse.

Matt Lescault: Mouse. Mouse.

Matt Lescault: Mouse.

Matt Lescault: Mouse. Mouse.

Skye Duhon: You think, [00:38:00]you think a computer is eating mouse for a snack?

Emily Madere: I don't know if it's a.

Emily Madere: It's an omnivore. Omnivore? I don't know? Herbivore.

Skye Duhon: The answer is microchips and cookies, but only a few bytes of each.

Matt Lescault: Ah.

Emily Madere: Okay. Okay. Hey.

Matt Lescault: It's better than Doug's.

Emily Madere: Yeah.

Emily Madere: Okay, everybody. Well, thank you so much for listening. Please tune in to our next podcast for some pretty exciting ones coming up. [00:38:30] Um, have a great day.

Skye Duhon: Thank you for having me.

Skye Duhon: Appreciate it.

Matt Lescault: Thank you. It's been fun.