When you can’t see clearly across your business processes, it’s harder to keep track of what’s happening. Important details can slip through the cracks, leaving you reacting to problems rather than getting ahead of them.
AI-powered technology can help change that. By making financial information easier to access, understand and act on, it gives your team greater visibility, helping you identify issues sooner and make more informed, strategic decisions.
But we understand that embracing AI comes with questions. How can you trust the insights it provides? How do you know the decisions you make are based on reliable information?
That’s where the right technology and support make all the difference. We can help you explore how AI-driven tools work and understand how they can support your business in a way that suits you.
In this one-minute video, Gareth Bezant, our Technical Director, explains how Sage puts trust at the heart of their AI operations.
With the ability to drill down into how AI reaches its outcomes, you can rest assured that the data you’re using is reliable and auditable.
Read on to discover three powerful ways we can help you get the visibility you need to make better decisions with Sage Intacct and finance-specific AI.
1. Sage Intacct’s Finance Intelligence Agent is empowering better decision-making with real-time insights
Finance teams shouldn’t have to spend hours searching through reports, exporting data or waiting for answers to straightforward questions, especially when it feels like you’ve already got a million things on your to-do list.
AI can help bridge the gap between financial data and proactive decision-making, turning information into clear insights and providing accurate predictions that help move your business forward.
With Sage Intacct’s Finance Intelligence Agent, users can:
- Ask questions in natural language
- Surface relevant financial insights and trends
- Access information across the business faster
- Identify areas that may require attention or action.
Simply ask questions such as: “What’s my total AP outstanding right now?”, and you’ll have the answer at your fingertips.
In short: Finance teams can quickly understand their financial data and answer complex questions without having to build reports and parse through data first.
2. Understand budget performance faster with Close Automation’s Variance Analysis
For many finance teams, analysing budget performance can be a time-consuming part of the month-end close, delaying decisions and making it harder to spot potential issues.
Sage Intacct’s Close Automation helps change that with Variance Analysis, giving finance teams AI-powered insights to help identify discrepancies and take action sooner.
With Variance Analysis, you can:
- Access real-time insights into budget versus actuals
- Highlight variances that may require further analysis before they escalate
- Generate clear, AI-powered explanations to understand the causes behind variances
- Resolve any anomalies promptly.
By improving your financial oversight and reducing the time spent analysing and explaining variances, you can close the books faster and with more confidence.
Find out more about how Close Automation’s intelligent features can help make month-end a lot more manageable: How Sage Intacct and trusted AI help businesses close faster
3. Gain a more complete financial picture with Sage Intacct’s AI Gateway
Manually transferring data between systems takes time away from strategic work and can make it harder to maintain a complete, up-to-date financial picture.
By securely connecting your financial data with the AI solutions you already trust, you can automate these processes, reducing manual effort, maintaining clear audit trails, and giving you real-time insights across your business ecosystem.
Sage Intacct’s AI Gateway:
- Connects your systems for broader, more actionable insights
- Provides a turnkey MCP (Model Context Protocol) Server that surfaces key Sage Intacct data to your agentic AI tools
- Enables you to leverage this information and Sage’s APIs to create transactions directly back into Sage Intacct, streamlining your business processes.
With the ability to give wider business systems read-only access, you maintain full control over how your financial data is accessed and used.
Ready to switch from reactive to proactive decision-making? Our experts are here to help you unlock better insights with Sage Intacct
Clear visibility is a cornerstone of business success. But when your team is caught up in manual workarounds and time-consuming tasks, it can be hard to see the bigger picture.
As your business grows, these processes can become increasingly difficult to manage, leaving more room for human error and less time to focus on what matters most.
By embracing AI-powered technology, you can streamline operations and improve visibility with a system that grows with your business, helping you make confident decisions as new opportunities arise.
Having been trusted by well over 100 organisations to implement Sage Intacct successfully, we can confidently say that we really understand how to tailor the system to best suit your needs and in a way that works exactly how you need it to.
Just hear what Colfe’s School had to say about their experience switching to Sage Intacct with us:
Ready to see what better financial visibility could look like for your business? Get in touch with our friendly experts by emailing enquiries@solutionscloud.uk or calling us at 0115 840 5075.
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