All the details you need are now on one printable screen. Complete customer and supplier receipts and refund without leaving the bank reconciliation to save you time.
Sage services
Find out exactly which Sage Services you can access with the new Services Toolbar in Sage 50 Accounts 2011. Update your Sage account details and access Sage software downloads.
Flat rate VAT
Set up and manage businesses on both invoice and cash-based flat-rate VAT schemes. Calculate the savings or losses to your business of flat-rate compared to standard VAT.
Charities
Manage your reporting by fund, produce Profit and Loss and Balance sheets without the need to export data.
Web store integration
Integrate your web store with your accounts. Using Sage Pay you can create new customers and products, sales invoices and receipts. Payments are downloaded automatically from your web store, saving you time.
Sage North America announced today the availability of the Sage Peachtree 2011 product line, part of the broad portfolio of Sage business management solutions that service end-to-end business needs. A longtime favorite of small businesses and accountants, Sage Peachtree is easier to use than ever, providing companies with instant access to key information that makes billing customers, reacting to issues and controlling profitability easier than ever for small businesses, helping them to stay competitive in a rapidly changing economy.
“At a time when most small businesses need to do more with less, Sage Peachtree 2011 will help them to leverage efficiencies and answer the three most important questions of their day: are business activities on track, on schedule, and within budget,” said Connie Certusi, general manager, small business accounting solutions, Sage North America. “Sage Peachtree 2011 makes it easier for small businesses to quickly get the information they need so they can focus on what they do best: running their businesses.”
treamline Service Billing: Businesses that provide services can quickly invoice customers for any unbilled time and expenses; unbilled items can be filtered by date, customer or job. The outstanding time and expenses are then transferred directly to an invoice, increasing billing efficiency.
Improve decision making with the new Inventory and Services Management Center: A customized dashboard helps users process large quantities of information about a single inventory item or a service at a glance. It enables quick research, comparisons, and decision making, and helps small businesses easily see the impact of a service—usage, revenue, and more. The dashboard cuts time needed to track details on inventory for planning purchases, freeing that time for other activities.
Instantly identify Job Status:& Customizable job status indicators provide visual red/yellow/green “stoplights” for easy identification of what’s on or off track, and are completely customizable to suit the needs of individual businesses. Small businesses can easily delete, rename, or change the color-coded stoplight button attached to each status, with virtually unlimited status types, for easy monitoring.
Sage North America is expanding into cloud computing with an on-demand version of its SalesLogix CRM application suite and plans to offer cloud-based “connected services,” modeled on Sage Payment Solutions, that extend the vendor’s on-premise applications.
But the software company is taking pains to reassure channel partners that its cloud foray won’t cut resellers out of the picture.
“We will ensure that you play a role,” said Himanshu Palsule, executive vice president, in a keynote speech Tuesday at the company’s Insights partner conference in Denver. “You will not be disintermediated by connected services. You cannot. Think about it. You still own the customer relationship.”
Sage executives, in fact, presented the announcements at Insights as a new business opportunity for solution providers, much as SAP did this week as it rolls out its Business ByDesign suite of on-demand applications.
“If you are a partner, this is a tremendous opportunity,” said Tom Miller, Sage vice president of channel management, in an Insights keynote. “You have the business knowledge. You have the business process knowledge. We see opportunity for you to add value to these connected services.”
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The guide gives a pictorial representation of Sage offerings along with the Advantages of various product offerings and suitability to various industry segments.
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By market share, SAP is the largest business applications software vendor. Oracle is number two. You probably knew that. Do you know the third largest applications vendor?
Sage, with 8% market share, is the third largest business applications software vendor. And in the SMB segment (companies with fewer than 500 employees), it’s the largest. Sage is a $1 billion plus company whose software products power hundreds of thousands of organizations’ mission-critical functions. However, given the evolution of this highly acquisitive company, its product portfolio and corporate background might merit some explaining. We’ll give it a try.
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 latest Version of Sage Line 50 the premier product from Sage is all set to launch on 3rd August 2010.
As the Website “http://www.sage.co.uk/thinkingbusiness/default.aspx” says
The Key Features include
Improved User Experience
“Our usability improvements extend from simplification of core processes to navigation and accessibility to data.”
Data Import Wizard
A new easy to use import wizard allowing you to map fields directly to Sage 50 Accounts and save procedures for future use.
SagePay (Protx) Integration
Provide the option for immediate online card payments with a ‘pay now’ button that can be embedded directly into PDF files such as invoices.
Some other features income
Bar code generation, Cash register, Legislation updates including ECSL changes and improved video tutorials & EC Sales list changes where new legislation updates include regulations from HM Revenue & Customs for certain companies who trade in the EC.
Watch this space for more information an update on the same.
The latest Version of Sage Line 50 the premier product from Sage is all set to launch on 3rd August 2010.
As the Website “http://www.sage.co.uk/thinkingbusiness/default.aspx” says
The Key Features include
Improved User Experience
“Our usability improvements extend from simplification of core processes to navigation and accessibility to data.”
Data Import Wizard
A new easy to use import wizard allowing you to map fields directly to Sage 50 Accounts and save procedures for future use.
SagePay (Protx) Integration
Provide the option for immediate online card payments with a ‘pay now’ button that can be embedded directly into PDF files such as invoices.
Some other features income
Bar code generation, Cash register, Legislation updates including ECSL changes and improved video tutorials & EC Sales list changes where new legislation updates include regulations from HM Revenue & Customs for certain companies who trade in the EC.
Watch this space for more information an update on the same.
Please also check www.sage2010.com for more details
Sage, one of the world’s largest suppliers of business software today announced the availability of Sage ERPX3 for Australian and New Zealand customers.
Sage ERPX3 is the latest product in Sage’s Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) suite designed to automate and manage business processes for medium to large organisations with between 100 and 5,000 employees.
Processes automated by the new solution include finance, production, sales, CRM, purchasing and stock management functions. ERPX3 is particularly targeted at businesses in vertical markets and industries including discrete manufacturing, finance, process manufacturing, warehouse management, distribution, pharmaceutical, medical and mining.
This latest release is specifically designed for deployment and operation over the Internet. For customers this means reduced total cost of ownership (TCO) and improved speed and ease of deployment as they don’t need to invest in additional hardware or thin-client technology to roll the solution out. These are particularly high priorities for Australian and New Zealand businesses at present according to feedback from Sage’s extensive partner community of more than 30,000 resellers globally.
“A lot of ERP systems are coming to the end of their product life cycle at the moment and customers are assessing the upgrade options available to them,” said Mike Lorge, Managing Director, Sage Business Solutions, Australia and New Zealand.
“The typical challenges for upgrade and deployment are productivity loss when systems are down for cut-over or training occurs and ongoing management costs. We designed ERPX3 to address those challenges directly. It is quickly deployed, often alongside existing ERP solutions, and incorporates new graphics and an improved user interface that can be tweaked to reflect specific business and training needs, saving time and money.”
New features in Sage ERPX3 include:
· Improved interface and user friendless: Businesses can design graphical processes to augment traditional menus and navigation panes. This aids in training and adoption as graphics are more familiar and reflect specific business needs and user preferences
· Quick deployment across multiple branches/sites: Because ERPX3 is web-native, it can be deployed over the Internet allowing businesses to quickly scale access to connect new and remote branches to the database. For example, if a business has an office in Beijing and one in Sydney, employees from each office can log into the same system simultaneously, improving transparency and information access across the organisation.
· Multi-jurisdiction and Multi-lingual: ERPX3 includes the latest updates to accounting and tax management legislation across multiple jurisdictions allowing automatic capture and conversion of data for international trade. Users can login in the language of choice including English, French, German, Spanish and Chinese.
· Improved data visibility and Business Intelligence: ERPX3 includes an easy to use, configuarable user portal including customisable graphical Business Intelligence views with full drill-down to the underlying data. Any data can be exposed in this manner.
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 Taxmodule 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.
