“Sage CRM Solutions help businesses take full advantage of the automation and customization efficiencies technology makes possible,” said Sage CRM Solutions North America Senior Vice President and General Manager David van Toor. “SageCRM v6.2 specifically lets organizations outfit their CRM systems to support the unique business environments they compete in, access critical financial and operations data through extensive ERP integration, and, overall, run their businesses more effectively.”

Some of the other enhanced capabilities are a new branding toolkit, simplified address management which operates on a single screen, and enhanced integration, including additional sales data synchronizations, Outlook(R) integration, and administrator management improvements.

Pricing for a standalone SageCRM system begins at $599 per user. SageCRM v6.2 is currently available as a standalone CRM system and as part of the Sage Accpac Extended Enterprise Suite, although the company says it will be available in the Sage MAS 90 and 200 Enterprise Suite later this month.

Sage Software India announced today its new Sage Accpac Integrated Suite with the availability of version 5.5 of its award-winning Sage Accpac ERP  business management system. The new suite configuration integrates out-of-box ERP with Sage CRM, a leading customer relationship management application. The new Sage Accpac Integrated Suite also provides analytical dashboards in Sage Accpac ERP 5.5 and offers a FREE bundled pack of Insight Business Intelligence tool (Author and Viewer).

“With the launch Sage Accpac Integrated suite we will be addressing the critical front-to-back office integration that takes small and mid sized businesses to the next level of business process automation. Sage Accpac will also significantly enhance the end user experience by introducing ‘easy to use’ business analytics which can transform business efficiencies in this segment,“ said Thomas Abraham, Managing  Director, Sage Software India (P) Ltd.

New Sage Accpac Integrated Suite— Analytical Dashboards Now Included, Insight Business Intelligence Tool bundled and  out-of-box integration available with CRM Sage Accpac ERP 5.5 comes integrated with SageCRM, an easy-to-use, quick-to-deploy Customer Relationship Management solution comprising Sales, Marketing and Customer Service Automation.

The Suite combines the benefits of ERP and CRM to deliver integrated front and back office business processes. This facilitates improved decision making by providing insight into what is happening within the business, enhances collaboration between customer-facing and back office workers and helps to improve customer relationships by providing one complete and consistent view of the customer.

Also supporting an extended view of the enterprise is version 5.5’s new dashboard 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.

In addition to dashboards, version 5.5 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

With Sage Accpac ERP 5.5 product delivery has been simplified . The functionality from 10 Sage Accpac Options products is now bundled in, including additional languages, GL Security, inquiry features, and Lot Tracking with Serialized Inventory, among others.