Centage Corporation, a leading provider of integrated budgeting, forecasting and financial reporting solutions for mid-market organizations, today announced the release of a data integration tool for Best Software's MAS 90/MAS 200 accounting and business management software packages. Centage's LinkMaestro? provides fast and easy transfer of critical financial information from these accounting packages into its Budget Maestro? budgeting and forecasting product. This automatic exchange of financial information streamlines data analysis, improves accuracy by eliminating manual data transfer, and speeds the monthly close process.

Centage Corporation, a software integration partner of Best Software, developed LinkMaestro for MAS 90/200 to automate routine processes including the transfer of the general ledger accounts and trial balances from MAS 90/MAS 200 into Budget Maestro. Business can use Centage's Budget Maestro to import and export data from a variety of financial applications, accounting packages and customized spreadsheets, allowing them to integrate planning, budgeting, forecasting, reporting and analysis processes into a single solution that helps managers make more informed decisions. The product supports the full business management cycle of budget development, comparing actual results to plan, re-forecasting, contingency and what-if scenario planning, and financial and management report generation.