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 A

bra 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.

Sage North America today announced ACT! by Sage for Real Estate 11, a contact and client management solution that provides residential real estate professionals with a complete pict

ure of their buyer and seller relationships. ACT! by Sage Premium for Real Estate 11, also available today, further meets the needs of larger teams with scalable workgroup capabilities so members can securely share and assign activities, sales opportunities, and contact data with each other. Complete product information is available at www.act.com/products/realestate.

New ACT! for Real Estate 11 functionality allows users to connect related contacts in their ACT! database such as buyers, mortgage brokers, title agents and home inspectors, and define specifics about these relationships. Usability enhancements include improved Microsoft® Outlook® integration, calendar and activity visibility, and database search capabilities.

ACT! for Real Estate is part of the ACT! by Sage product family. ACT! is the #1 selling contact and customer management solution used by more than 2.8 million users and over 48,000 additional corporate customers, including individual professionals, small business owners, corporate teams, and anyone who regularly works with contacts.

ACT! For Real Estate helps users:

--  Organize and track buyer and seller information using real estate-

    specific layouts including dozens of property, buyer, and seller-related

    fields, and custom contact fields.

--  Facilitate daily client communications with preformatted flyers and e-

    mail or letter templates designed specifically for real estate.

--  Manage daily appointments and tasks with over 20 real estate-specific

    activity types.

--  Automate multiple step activities with 10 customizable activity series

    templates.

--  Manage property listings from inquiry through close with sales process

    status visibility.

--  Access MLS homepages from within ACT! for Real Estate using Internet

    Explorer 6.0 or 7.0 and an online MLS account.

--  Run six types of real estate-specific reports or more than 40 standard

    ACT! reports.

--  View important buyer and seller activities, property listings, and

    more at a glance using interactive graphical dashboards.

ACT! for Real Estate is part of the ACT! by Sage product family. ACT! is the #1 selling contact and 

customer management solution used by  more than 2.8 million users and over 48,000 additional corporate customers,

including individual professionals, small business owners, corporate teams, and anyone who regularly works with 

contacts.

NEW ORLEANS, LA — 03/30/09 — Sage North America today announced several fundraising technology developments designed to further help nonprofit organizations support their missions. The company will soon offer a new ePhilanthropy tool; has a r

enewed focus on adding next-generation technical capabilities to its Millennium fundraising platform; and has launched fully managed hosting services for its Sage Fundraising 50 software. Sage is demonstrating all of these technologies on the trade show floor at the Association of Fundraising Professionals’ (AFP) 2009 International Conference on Fundraising, being held through Wednesday at the Ernest N. Morial Convention Center in New Orleans.
ePhilanthropy: Going Where Donors Are

Sage will soon introduce a low-cost “viral fundraising” tool that will allow nonprofit organizations to cost-effectively increase their donations using the Internet. Employing the concept of contextual giving, the new ePhilanthropy offering is designed to help organizations quickly create donation forms that can be placed within any Web page, as well as link their e-mails to the campaign-specific content page on their site. The embedded forms allow donors to fully complete the transaction within the content that inspired the gift, so organizations can secure higher conversion rates and larger gift sizes.

“Using this technology, organizations can easily align passions with causes, and have others spread the word for them while they control their messages,” said Krista Endsley, senior vice president and general manager for Nonprofit Solutions at Sage North America. “The new tool enables nonprofits to take full advantage of existing Web pages and social networks already frequented by their constituents, so those same constituents can become fundraisers in their own right. It also helps organizations launch or improve their event-based fundraisers, since they can build, deploy, and share their own custom forms anywhere, with all registrant data and fees accessible to them immediately.”

The tool requires no technical or programming skills on the part of the nonprofit, so an organization can have their campaign up and running in minutes.

Strategic Fundraising Technology Platform

Sage has renewed its focus on adding next-generation technical capabilities to its Millennium fundraising platform. With an easy-to-navigate, unique Web-based design that can be set up as an Internet or intranet application, Millennium fundraising software is already helping nonprofit organizations more easily manage campaigns and events, track donors, and create reports.

The company plans to add functionality to ensure the product delivers a full-featured “front-end” donor experience, including online giving, event and membership registration, e-mail marketing, as well as the most powerful “back-end” fundraising management functionality, such as constituent and gift tracking, event and membership management, business intelligence (BI), and reporting.

“After extensive due diligence, we concluded that the right investments could easily accelerate Millennium to the next level of fundraising software,” said Endsley. “Millennium’s back-end sophistication and powerful customization features provide the ideal platform to expand and enable our future fundraising strategy. The product already offers sophisticated business intelligence tools, superior prospect management workflow and major gift tracking, and a continued focus on accessible data.”

Sage will host a cocktail reception at AFP’s International Conference this evening to celebrate the Millennium product.

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Accountancy software provider Sage has unveiled its latest tax software which supports both paper and online filing.

Sage Taxation 2009 and Sage Instant Tax enables practices to prepare returns for individuals, partnerships and trusts. The val

idation checks in the software review submissions to prevent tax returns from being rejected by HM Revenue & Customs.

HMRC posted record amounts of tax returns filed electronically this year with the majority of e-filings being made directly with HMRC’s own electronic offering and not third party.

Greg Ford, managing director, Sage accounts division, said: ‘We know that online filing for personal tax clients can be daunting and expensive for smaller practices, which is why we believe that Sage Instant Tax will make the transition from paper to online more accessible and affordable to practices that are not already filing online, meaning they too, alongside larger firms, can electronically file individual tax returns with confidence’

Sage Instant Tax prices will starts just £99 for a 10 client license and has also improved the software’s printing capabilities for faster printing of tax returns.