Sage's SaaS offerings

by admin on October 5, 2009

in General

Name

Country

Summary

Edonea

www.edonea.com

Spain

  • Accounting and payroll bureau services for small businesses
  • Includes online invoicing and expense management tool

Pastel MyBusiness Online

www.pastelmybusiness.co.za

South Africa

  • Small business accounting application
  • Support of roles
  • Available on Apple Apps Store

Pastel MyPaycheck Online

www.pastelmypaycheck.co.za

South Africa

  • Online payroll solution

Sage einfachLohn

www.einfachlohn.de

Germany

  • Simple payroll for small and micro businesses
  • From 1 to 20 employees
  • Deals with all statutory electronic submissions

Sage Spark and Sage Spark

Billing Boss

www.sagespark.com

www.billingboss.com

Canada

  • Online community site for small and micro businesses
  • Free online invoicing tool
  • Targets businesses not using accounting software
  • Available in English, French, Spanish, Portuguese, and several Asian languages
  • Also works on iPhone and Google G1

SagePay

www.sagepay.com

UK

Payment service provider with 25,000+ customers

As promised, the above table shows you Sage’s currently available SaaS offerings. OK, so it’s not quite the ‘swathe’ I mentioned previously but it is better than nothing. What’s interesting to me are the offerings for South Africa and Spain. These are both countries where broadband access is limited and where cost is a sensitive issue. It has been said that the future of web apps is on mobile. I don’t know enough about that to be certain and I struggle to see it being much of a play in the business arena despite the fact I really like Billing Boss on iPhone/Android. Nevertheless, it is indicative that Sage is responding to what their individual markets want. When you’re looking at single markets, it isn’t always obvious how a vendor might need to respond in other territories. This table provides that nuanced view.

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