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The Wider Sage Solution
Sage User Network
February 2008
Agenda for this session
• Re-iterate our strategy for the Mid-Market
• Review some of the Sage software that can add value to
your Line 500 software
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Sage Retail
Sage Asset Manager
SageBI
SalesLogix
HR (Snowdrop)
Sage Payment Processing (Protx)
Mid-market strategy
Integrated Applications
Manufacturing
Accounting & ERP
Single Integrated Business
System
Accounting, Finance & Payroll
Systems
Construction
For Finance &
Retail
Business Operations
Business
Business
Workflow &
Operations,
Distribution,
Alerting
Web Access
AIS &
APIs
& Self Serve
Manufacturing
Single
Integrated
Business
System
Business
Information
Reporting &
Dashboards
Customer
Business Intelligence
Customer Relationship
for Business
Management Systems
Operational and
for Sales Marketing
Analytical Reporting
and Service
Management
Sales
Management
Service &
Support
Marketing Management
These options are powerful, integrated software packages offering
extensive functionality to match real world business requirements
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Mid-market strategy
Manufacturi
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Constructio
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Retail
Accounting & ERP
Systems
For Finance &
Business Operations
Web Access
& Self Serve
AIS &
APIs
Business Intelligence
for Business
Operational and
Analytical Reporting
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Accounting, Finance & Payroll
Business
Business
Operations,
Workflow &
Distribution,
Alerting
Manufacturing
Customer Relationship
Management Systems
for Sales Marketing
and Service
Single
Integrated
Business
System
Customer
Management
Service &
Support
Business
Information
Reporting &
Dashboards
Sales
Management
Marketing
Management
Sage Line 500 commitment
• Line 500 benefits from a dedicated product
management and R&D team
• We’ll continue to develop and support it through:
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Listening to you and delivering what you require
Focusing on improving application usability
Improving the User Interface experience
Widening the integration capability though APIs
Supporting extended business processes outside of
Line 500 through integration with other Sage software
such as
• Sage Retail; Sage Asset Manager; SageBI; SalesLogix; HR
(Snowdrop) and Sage Payment Processing (Protx)
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Sage Retail
• Sage Retail is a customer present till solution for any business that
transacts using Electronic Point Of Sale
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Retail Stores
Visitor Attractions
Cathedrals
Garden Centres
Builders Merchants
Sports Grounds
Bars / Restaurants /Cafes
Wholesalers
• Integrated to Sage Line 500
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Sage Retail
“It’s all about balance: being able to deliver excellent
customer service at a profit. The information we collect
and analyse from Sage PayPoint enables us to achieve
this balance.”
Chris Chambers, IT Manager, Julian Graves
Chris explains: “Our outlets are quite small with the majority having just
one till – only around 20 of the stores have more. With Sage
PayPoint, we can now maximise use of our tills for customer facing
operations, rather than tying them up on administration. It also
means we can take fast remedial action based on accurate, real
time information, rather than having to wait till the next day.”
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Asset Management
The benefit is in maximising the value of your assets
Finance department
Purchasing
department
• Maximise
unused assets
• Financial control
• Allocation of costs
Facilities
management
• Detailed event histories
• Budget planning
• Re-organisations
All departments
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• Asset inventories
Asset Management
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Asset Management
“Overall, thanks to the user-friendliness and flexibility of
Sage Asset Manager, managing our assets has become
child’s play.”
Gris Decoupage – specialist in pressed metal components for the car
industry
‘The automatic upload of the General ledger journal saves me one
morning a month, reduces errors and simplifies control procedures.
With just a few clicks, I can generate my reports and export them to
Excel. Department heads now have much better visibility, thanks to
the many enquiry screens and consolidated reports.”
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SalesLogix Product Strategy
• Fully featured CRM (SFA, Mktg, S&S, BI), distinguished by:
– Best-in-class usability
– Industry leading end-user adoption
• Industry leading customisation
• Mobility leadership with customisable support for the most popular
devices (e.g., Blackberry, PPC, etc.)
• Multi-client architecture (Web, Windows and Mobile)
• Modern architecture that easily fits with our customers’
infrastructure
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New Web User Interface
Modern interface provides Windows-like experience on Web
One-click
access to
critical
information
Tight
integration
with
Microsoft®
Office and
other
business
applications
Drag & drop
tabs
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Context
sensitive help
Minimize
panes to
maximize
viewed data
Customisable
middle pane
Sage SalesLogix
• Let’s listen to Simon Williams from Steljes
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SageBI (Business Intelligence)
• Make good use of the data you
own
– It’s your most valuable asset
• 210 customers to date use
SageBI
– Consistent data across the two
systems
• More than just reporting
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Drill into the data
Examine trends
Investigate anomalies
Support strategic business
decisions
SageBI (Business Intelligence)
Our new systems will enable the business to run much
more efficiently by providing management with better
visibility as to performance. Over the medium to long
term, our teams will be able to make more informed
decisions to help grow the business.”
Justin Garrod, Schiedel Rite–Vent
“SageBI provides instant, up-to-date information enabling sales,
marketing and finance managers to identify business trends
monthly, daily or on demand. Previously, we were unable to deliver
this information, but now using the web dashboard interface,
SageBI provides an easy-to-use business performance
management solution to help us grow our business.”
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SageBI (Business Intelligence)
“By delivering trends & business information in an
environment our users are comfortable with (Excel),
SageBI has enabled our business to move from the
reliance on Cognos to an environment with a lower total
cost of ownership and training requirements. It has given
us the confidence to move forward with Sage 1000, and
truly leverage our customer and business information.”
Alan Doyle, IT Manager, Nichols Plc
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SageBI (Business Intelligence)
• Let’s listen to Simon Williams from Steljes
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Human Resources
• Acquisition of Snowdrop
• A fully featured mid-market HR solution
• Significant domain and software delivery
knowledge
• Can be implemented and integrated today
– Snowdrop Professional Services
• 2008 Development Strategy
– Integrating Snowdrop HR into Line 500 Payroll
• Longer Term
– Snowdrop HR and Payroll as a solution set for Line
500 and Sage 1000 users
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Human Resources
• 600 successful HR implementations
Screen dump of Evergreen
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Human Resources
• Let’s listen again to Simon Williams from Steljes
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Sage payment Processing (Protx)
"The Protx system is now fully integrated and has cut our
processing time to a fraction. This means that we can
spend more time on fulfilling orders rather than
processing payments, which has cut our time
significantly.”
"Using Protx has enabled us to process both our website
and mail order/telephone order payments through the
same system. This means that we no longer need our
old PDQ machine, and all of our order reconciliation and
reporting is managed from one central Admin area.”
Big Game Hunters
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The Wider Sage Solution
• Sage Line 500 is core to the Sage product strategy of
providing choice
• Sage Line 500 has a myriad of additional supporting
applications
– Many provided by Sage, integrated and supported by Sage
– Some available by 3rd parties
• These applications can deliver tremendous value to your
business
• As well as maximising your investment in Sage Line 500
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The Wider Sage Solution
Sage User Network
February 2008