Sage Software, the leading global supplier of ERP, CRM, and HRM solutions to medium and large organisations, has launched the ‘ERP X3 v6’ – the newest version of ‘Sage ERP X3’, the flagship ERP solution for mid-sized and large businesses in the Middle East. Built around the customer to place emphasis on ease of use, rapid deployment and cost effectiveness, the innovative solution focuses on cost and time savings, full interoperability among dispersed teams and customer experience improvement. The announcement follows the recent creation of an international team to support the development of the ‘Sage ERP X3’ business.

With hundreds of enhancements and new features, ‘Sage ERP X3 v6’ boasts of multi-currency, multi-country, and multi-legislation functionality to address the complex requirements of mid-sized and larger businesses. Compatible with ‘Sage ACCPAC’, a software that provides an integrated accounting solution, the latest ERP offering from Sage operates in 64 bits for Microsoft Windows Server 2008, RedHat Linux 5, IBM AIX 5.3, Microsoft SQL Server 2008 and Oracle Database 11g R2 with Real Application Clusters and EXADATA compliance. The solution is available in seven languages: English, Chinese, French, German, Italian, Portuguese and Spanish, and can be deployed on a wide range of technology platforms and databases, thereby providing crucial flexibility for customers.

“The innovative, role-based web user interface of ‘ERP X3 V6’ makes manipulating complex and critical information easy and displays it exactly how the user wants thus improving interoperability across a business,” said Vikram Suri, Managing Director, Sage Software. “By launching this new version, we are aiming to help CFOs of global businesses get real-time visibility of their entire business and control over multi-legislation and multi charts of accounts. The development of ‘ERP X3 v6’ underlines our commitment towards helping businesses who cannot afford complex enterprise software, and we are proud to finally launch this solution here in the Middle East.”

Recognising that the needs of customers are changing, with an increasing demand for solutions to manage businesses on a global basis, Sage Software has created the global team, which includes key people from Sage’ worldwide business. Bringing together Sage Software’s local expertise and global resources, the team will focus on maintaining the relevance of ‘Sage ERP X3’ among today’s customers. The team will work closely with Sage’s local operations to ensure that the solution is complementary to local mid-market product offerings and includes international pre-sales and professional services, training, global R&D and global marketing and communications.

“Our established commitment towards delivering the specific needs of our customers is once again demonstrated by the creation of this global team to support ‘Sage ERP X3’ customers. This initiative will leverage our extensive local knowledge and strength at the international level, which have both contributed to our widespread success among established business as well as start-ups across the globe. As a trusted partner of many important organisations fuelling the world’s economy, we are proud of this exceptional step and we are confident of its success in the years to come,” concluded Suri.

The customers will need to apply the 17.5% rate to all sales of standard rated goods and services taking place on or after that date.

What you should apply the new rate to:

• All takings received on or after 1 January 2010
• All VAT invoices you issue to other VAT registered businesses on or after 1 January 2010

check further details on www.sage2010.com

The latest Version of Sage Line 50 the premier product from Sage is all set to launch on 3^rd August 2010.

As the Website “http://www.sage.co.uk/thinkingbusiness/default.aspx” says

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Sage Pocket comes in Two versions i.e. Professional, Premium. We also have Online modules available as add-ons

Sage Pocket Professional
An easy-to-use payroll solution designed as a single user single company application for  up to 300 employees. The solution is configurable and allows the user to set statutory regulations, calculate income tax, track reimbursements and generate pay slips. Employee master details can be maintained with the option to upload all the necessary documents.
Features of this module include:

• Compute salaries including statutory computation of PF and ESI
• Income Tax & maintain record of Investments
• Reimbursements as per CTC norms
• Keep track of Employee Leave taken and Loan availed.
• Maintain correspondence with employees in respect of Letters and E-mail

Sage Pocket Premium
Advanced version of Sage Pocket Professional, the application has been designed to meet the needs of companies requiring greater payroll processing capabilities. Multi-user, Multi-company and up to 1000 employees. The numbers can also be scaled. Sage Pocket Premium being a multi-user application allows the administrator to set user access rights and maintain complete audit trail. The solution can be integrated with the online modules.

Sage Pocket- Online Modules
A set of modules available online that enables employees to have an online access to information relating to HR, Leave and Claims. Modules include:

• Personnel Information Portal
• Online Leave Tracking System
• Online Claims Management

R.S. Raman, General Manager, Sage Pocket, says, “Our R&D team in Chennai has focused on streamlining the product and making it ‘easy to install’ and easy to use’ while enhancing the features and functionality. We have also set up a Partner channel of over 25 partners across India who will be selling and implementing Sage Pocket. We expect to grow our customer base in India substantially from the current 300 customers with this new release. We are also soliciting more partner enrolments with us to take this product closer to the customers in various geographies in India”.

All the Sage Pocket versions are available with six modules i.e. Payroll, Leave, Income Tax, Benefit, HR Letters and Email.

• The Payroll module offers payroll processing, pay slip generation, statutory and Bank reporting, import or export from or to excel enabling users to set statutory regulations like PF, ESI and Professional Tax dynamically depending on the earning slabs and government regulations.
• The Leave module helps the HR department to track leaves and define leaves.
• Income Tax module allows the administrator to maintain employee declarations, compute Income Tax and generate requisite forms such as Form 16 for the employee and facilitate quarterly and annual e-filing for the Income Tax department.
• The Benefit module allows the administrator to set CTC related reimbursements, define dynamic reimbursement components like fuel, transport, medical etc.
• The HR Letter module enables the HR or administrator to create any number of formats and templates for appointment letter, relieving letter, salary certificate, experience certificate and other important documents that can be saved and used in the future.
• Finally, the email module is linked to all modules including Payroll, Income Tax, Benefits and other modules. Reports such as pay slip, TDS worksheet, pending proof, etc. are generated as PDF documents in these modules and the subsequent email to the employee. This module can also be used to send out employee wedding anniversary and birthday greetings through e-mail.

With a starting price of Rs.25, 000, Sage Pocket is now available with all authorized Sage Partners of Sage India.

Sage (UK) Limited, the leading business software and services provider with more than 780,000 customers in the UK, has partnered with LinkedIn, the world’s largest professional network to launch a multi-faceted digital campaign supporting Sage’s national Business Brains campaign.

The campaign, which includes profile targeted advertising and sponsorship of the Startups & Small Business Answers section of LinkedIn, aims to identify, explore and celebrate the business skills that make people in business more likely to succeed.

Joanna Elliott, Head of Brand at Sage (UK) Limited said, “This campaign goes far beyond traditional display advertising, by unlocking the potential of the LinkedIn network we can engage directly with our key audiences in a much more targeted, relevant and engaging way.”

The advertising and sponsorship activity on LinkedIn will drive traffic directly to an interactive site developed by Sage, train your business brain The site is designed to provide inspiration, mental stimulation and advice to UK professionals and includes:

• Business Brains video interviews with Simon Woodroffe, Founder of Yo! Sushi; Rebekah Fensome, a leading business psychologist and James Averdieck , Founder of Gü Puddings
• Five different mental agility tests to reveal your business IQ
• News and features from previous episodes of The Krypton Factor

Sage North America today announced ACT! by Sage for Financial Professionals 11, a contact and client management solution that helps financial advisors develop their client and prospect relationships. ACT! by Sage Premium for Financial Professionals 11, also available today, helps larger advisor teams securely collaborate, share contacts, and manage activities on a shared database. Complete product details are available at www.act.com/products/financial.

ACT! for Financial Professionals is available for $299.99 per user at www.act.com/estore and by phoning 866-903-0006. ACT! Premium for Financial Professionals, recommended for organizations with ten or more users, is available for $469.99 per user by contacting ACT! Corporate Licensing at 866-903-0006, or from ACT! Certified Consultants located at www.act.com/certifiedconsultants.

About Sage North America
Sage North America is part of The Sage Group plc, a leading global supplier of business management software and services. At Sage, we live and breathe business every day. We are passionate about helping our customers achieve their ambitions. Our range of business software and services is continually evolving as we innovate to answer our customers’ needs. Our solutions 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 North America employs approximately 4,800 people and supports 2.9 million small and medium-size business customers. The Sage Group plc, formed in 1981, was floated on the London Stock Exchange in 1989 and now employs more than 14,500 people and supports more than 5.8 million customers worldwide. For more information, please visit the web site atwww.sagenorthamerica.com or call 866-308-2378.

New online destination accelerates small businesses, empowering potential entrepreneurs across North America to get motivated, get started and get paid

North America today announced SageSpark.com, a new online destination for small businesses that brings together an array of key elements entrepreneurs need to get started.  As part of SageSpark.com, Sage is also launching Billing Boss, an online invoicing service, aimed at helping North American small businesses get paid, quickly and easily. 

SageSpark.com is a centralized online resource to help early stage small businesses:

         access and use free and fee-based online applications to manage specific, discrete business needs, such as invoicing customers.

         sign up for small business services that free up their time to run their business and accelerate business growth, such as online IT helpdesk services, online marketing services, business benchmarking, and employee recruitment.

         engage in a comprehensive small business community that allows users to connect with other small businesses, find new customers, share best practices, and learn from various experts.

 ”Small businesses are starting up at a record pace for a variety of reasons: from baby boomers postponing retirement to recent college graduates, to moms trying to make extra money, and with the recent waves of layoffs and the current economy, many people are seizing the opportunity to start their own business,” said Jamie Sutherland, general manager, SageSpark.com. “With SageSpark.com, we are providing current and potential entrepreneurs with a small business accelerator that offers the choice of online services beyond traditional accounting software that will jump-start their efficiency and quickly put them on the road to success.” 

SageSpark.com delivers the elements entrepreneurs need to get started inexpensively, via free and low-cost services; and get motivated, via a strong community of experts and peers, sharing best practices and providing encouragement for entry-level businesses. 

Low-cost services include credit card processing and payroll direct deposit, a virtual IT helpdesk, and sales and marketing services, to name a few.  SageSpark.com also offers no-cost services, including Billing Boss, a simple invoicing tool.

Billing Boss is easy to use, accessible from anywhere with an internet connection, and available on 3G enabled mobile devices such as the iPhone.  With Billing Boss, small businesses can easily create and send professional-looking invoices within minutes of signing up, and get paid faster online and increase their productivity since they’ll spend less time preparing invoices and tracking down payments. 

Billing Boss is designed for businesses in North America and is currently available in seven languages with three dialects:  English, French, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese (+ Brazil), Korean, and traditional Chinese.

Sage North America today announced enhancements to its premier timekeeping solution, Sage TimeSheet. Version 9.8 provides electronic time-keeping capabilities for users of Sage Abra HRMS, the company’s award-winning human resource management system; adds integrated support for the SQL version of Sage Abra; and includes simplified time entry features for all Sage TimeSheet customers.

A versatile electronic time and expense capture system, Sage TimeSheet can feed directly into financial, project management, and payroll systems, including Sage Abra Payroll, the payroll module for Sage Abra HRMS. Additionally, Sage TimeSheet can provide project tracking capabilities for Sage MAS 90/200 ERP and Sage MAS 500 ERP users, or function as a stand-alone project time and expense tracking tool.

Sage Abra TimeSheet 9.8 is now available as an integrated option for Sage Abra SQL HRMS. It allows employees to enter time worked online, supervisors to approve time entries, and enables Abra Payroll administrators to more easily control the time approval process, to help ensure accurate and timely payment to all employees.

In addition, several new time entry features, such as the ability to add holiday hours or other common time to all employees at once, will benefit all Sage TimeSheet users.

“[Sage TimeSheet is] an ideal solution for a distributed workforce like ours,” says Reed Sortor, systems accountant for San Francisco-based AKQA, a highly successful, global-reaching leader in digital marketing, and the creative team behind award-winning ideas and strategies used by some the world’s most recognized brands, including VISA, Nike, Coca-Cola, and Xbox. “[Using Sage TimeSheet], employees can enter their time and project-related expenses from anywhere.”

To ensure each employee has accounted for their weekly hours, AKQA has configured Sage TimeSheet to automatically generate an e-mail reminder to employees if they have not allocated their standard weekly number of hours.

“It’s critical that we have complete and accurate time recording, yet it would be an impossible task to account for it all without Sage TimeSheet,” adds Sortor.

Easy to install and administer, and flexible enough to accommodate highly complex business rules without customization, Sage TimeSheet integrates with project management, payroll, and billing systems. Compared to other project time-tracking software, Sage TimeSheet offers the most flexible configuration and customization capabilities to fit the unique requirements of most organizations, whether departmental or company-wide.

Availability

The Sage TimeSheet product line includes Sage Abra TimeSheet, Sage TimeSheet 100, Sage TimeSheet 500, Sage TimeSheet – Payroll Edition, Sage TimeSheet – MAS 90 Edition, and Sage TimeSheet – MAS 500 Edition.

Sage TimeSheet version 9.8 is now available. For more information on the Sage TimeSheet product line, including available add-ons, please visit www.sagetimesheet.com or call 800-477-6763.