That's the dilemma.

Here's a cheat sheet Sage published recently that summarizes a lot of the pricing and info that you mentioned.

www.90minds.com/.../everything-you-wanted-to-know-about-sage-erp-intelligence-reporting-faq-pricing-licensing

Renovo is more comparable to FRX -- as it's not Excel based and in some cases (for a fee) Renovo can migrate your existing FRX data. So if you have a lot of FRX reports that you love, that you want to migrate exactly and in the past (and future) you do not expect to be creating new reports - Renovi may be less expensive overall.

The big three we see are:

Sage Intelligence

BizNet

Renovo

In some cases users look at F9 but I view that option as less of a financial reporting tool than the three above.

We generally discount the "free" license of SI because as you point out there are additional costs and if push comes to shove my guess is you can negotiate with BizNet or Renovo because they all know they are competing against free.

Great information Wayne.  Thanks.  I did not know there is a subscription option.  We have 5 companies to consolidate that translates to 129 a month.  This might give us enough time to figure out if we can work with the product.  I wonder if there is a minimum amount of months.  

If you are only doing financials,   you do not need the connector.  However you might want to purchase a designer license.

The connector license is if you need to establish links to data in Sage 100 that are not part of the default connections.  

If you are only doing financials,   you do not need the connector.  However you might want to purchase a designer license.

The connector license is if you need to establish links to data in Sage 100 that are not part of the default connections.  

ok, i think I see.  We only need Sage G/L Data.  We need consolidated financials and "tree" analysis and custom financials.  Therefore, we need the Designer License.  And that is it.  So, $1,060 and if we need additional licenses, it would be more.