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Sage Software Announces New Sage Accpac Extended
Enterprise Suite
4/24/2008
Integrated Suite based on new Accpac ERP 5.5
and SageCRM also adds analytical dashboards
Richmond, BC – April 24, 2008 – Sage Software
announced today its new Sage Accpac Extended Enterprise Suite consisting
of Sage Accpac ERP version 5.5 with integrated CRM. The Suite combines the
benefits of ERP and CRM to support integrated front and back office
business processes and workflow. This improves decision making ability by
providing insight into what is happening within the business, enhances
collaboration between departments and facilitates improved customer
relationships by providing employees from across the business with one
complete and consistent view of the customer.
“Small and medium-sized businesses need
simple, integrated business processes, workflows, and access to reliable
information,” said Laurie Schultz, Sage Software general manager for Sage
Accpac. “An extended enterprise solution provides transparency and control
over the entire business. With simplicity in product and pricing, new,
improved support offerings, and better synchronization of complementary
application availability, the convenience and value offered by our new
Sage Accpac Extended Enterprise Suite is our next step in that direction,
and you’ll see more of this approach from Sage Software in the future.”
CRM, Analytical Dashboards Now Included
Sage Accpac ERP now includes SageCRM, an easy-to-use, quick-to-deploy
Customer Relationship Management solution comprising Sales, Marketing and
Customer Service Automation. Simplified workflow is also supported through
tighter integration with Sage Accpac HRMS (human resource management
system) and Sage FAS Fixed Assets.
Also supporting an extended view of the
enterprise is the new analytical dashboards feature. The dashboards
provide easily accessed snapshots of the business that help managers
better analyze, predict, and manage business performance. Key performance
indicators, such as age of accounts, are instantly available, providing
alerts that can be turned into actions through collections, payables and
other tasks, resulting in potential cost and cash flow improvements.
This latest version of Accpac also provides
significant usability enhancements throughout the system, including a new
Account Rollup feature that supports automatic account consolidation in
the general ledger, new multicurrency revaluation options, and streamlined
processes for managing job tracking.
Simplification—In Product and Pricing
With this latest Accpac version, product delivery has been simplified
as has pricing. The functionality from 10 Sage Accpac Options products is
now built in, including additional languages, GL Security, inquiry
features, and Lot Tracking with Serialized Inventory, among others.
Overall pricing has been further simplified
and streamlined with more competitive Canadian pricing, similar pricing
for the latest versions of Microsoft® SQL Server® and Pervasive.SQL®
server, and a special, introductory “per user” pricing offer available for
new customers from now until June 18th.(1)
Support—New Sage Accpac Online Community
As part of the new Sage Accpac Extended Enterprise Suite launch, a new
Sage Accpac Online Community, at
www.sageaccpac.com/community, has been launched to provide
peer-to-peer online support alternatives for users, as well as fostering
better communication and collaboration between Sage Accpac users, business
partners, and Sage Software.
The new Sage Accpac Online Community
includes a new forum, blogs, a comprehensive Knowledgebase, centralized
online support tools for easy accessibility, and Customer Support
Technicians monitoring and participating in the forums and online chat
rooms on a full-time basis.
Synchronization—All Complementary
Applications Available Within 90 Days
Sage Software is committed to delivering 5.5 compatible versions of
complementary applications such as Sage Accpac HRMS, Sage FAS Fixed
Assets, and Sage Accpac Insight by the end of July, so users can have a
comprehensive, up-to-date, expanded Extended Enterprise Suite, as desired,
up and running as quickly as possible.
The Sage
Software Extended Enterprise Vision
Sage Accpac ERP version 5.5 with SageCRM 6.1 provides the beginning of
Sage Software’s new Extended Enterprise vision. The Sage Extended
Enterprise vision will deliver a family of software suites that will
provide businesses with access to processes and data anywhere, anytime, on
any device, with workflow throughout the organization. Sage Software
offers small and medium-sized businesses with freedom of choice to deploy
the business management system to match their business needs. The Sage
Accpac Extended Enterprise Suite can be installed on premises and accessed
over the Web or from local or wide area networks. It is also available
hosted online at
www.sageaccpaconline.com.
Pricing and
Availability
The new Sage Accpac Extended Enterprise Suite, which includes Sage
Accpac ERP 5.5 bundled with SageCRM 6.1, is now available from authorized
Sage Accpac business partners across North America. Available in three
editions, 100, 200, and 500, core financial and operational modules of
Sage Accpac ERP 5.5 start at an SRP of $695 (USD), $795 (CDN) per module
for Sage Accpac 100 ERP 5.5. Additional Sage Accpac ERP 5.5 modules will
be available in June. The special per user pricing offer is available from
April 18th until June 18th, 2008.(1) To locate a Sage Accpac business
partner, call 1-800-945-8007, or visit www.sageaccpac.com.
About Sage Software
Sage Software supports the needs, challenges and dreams of nearly 2.8
million small and medium-sized business customers in North America through
easy-to-use, scalable and customizable software and services. Our products
support accounting, operations, customer relationship management, human
resources, time tracking, merchant services and the specialized needs of
the construction, distribution, healthcare, manufacturing, nonprofit and
real estate industries. Sage Software is a subsidiary of The Sage Group
plc, a leading global supplier of business management software and
services to small and medium-sized businesses. Formed in 1981, Sage was
floated on the London Stock Exchange in 1989. Sage Group now has 5.5
million customers and employs over 13,900 people worldwide. For more
information, please visit the web site at www.sagesoftware.com
or call (866) 308-2378.
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(1)Per user pricing is a
special, introductory promotional offer available from April 18, 2008 to
June 18, 2008 only for new users/purchasers of the Sage Accpac Extended
Enterprise Suite, which includes Sage Accpac ERP 5.5 and SageCRM 6.1.
Specific pricing details of this offer are available from local Sage
Accpac business partners and Sage Software. |
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