Paul Walker

Sage's new Le Boss: a safe pair of hands or shades of SAP past?

July 23, 2010 Cloud Computing/SaaS

Apologies for being so late on the news. I took a wee vacation and switched (just about) anything to do with the Internet off. So – the rumours turned out to be true. Guy Berruyer, a 59 year old in-house exec takes over from Paul Walker on 1st September. As I read through the FT [...]

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Sage cracks open the kimono?

June 2, 2010 General

Late yesterday I had an enjoyable and useful conversation with Stuart Lynn who runs R&D for Sage mid market solutions. Stuart has been pinging Twitter the last few weeks with Tweets about how Sage is using Amazon to provide an alpha (now beta) test bed for Sage 1000 (aka Tetra CS3.) Are you kidding me? [...]

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Sage: Paul Walker CEO's successor

May 14, 2010 Cloud Computing/SaaS

Let’s be honest – Sage is in the crapper. It survives on entitlement subscription revenues and is driven by an acquisition led strategy. It’s latest flagship upgrade has been roundly slapped as bug infested bloatware. If you know anything about software and users you also know that might please the markets…but it is a temporary [...]

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Sage and SaaS: the profession's response

May 12, 2010 Cloud Computing/SaaS

Sage’s SaaS issue has not gone un-noticed by professional colleagues. I asked a selection of colleagues for their take. After all, Sage prides itself on being in tune with members of the accounting fraternity. I specifically asked those who have worked with SaaS. While being vested in the technology, they have experience of what it [...]

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Sage's astonishing claims about the SaaS market

May 6, 2010 Cloud Computing/SaaS

[display_podcast] During Sage’s earnings call, Paul Walker, CEO Sage made some astonishing claims about the saas market as the platform from which he explained Sage’s strategy. In my commentary on the recorded remarks I said: …it demonstrates a horrific lack of market understanding. The previous day at ZDNet I said: I have long held the [...]

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Sage half year: revenue continues to fall

May 5, 2010 Cloud Computing/SaaS

In a further measure of how retarded Sage was in buying the healthcare division in the US market and just how vulnerable its results are to US economic trends, it’s half year results to 31st March show a continuing overall decline of 4% with a fall of 5% in North America. Describing the US result [...]

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A conversation with Paul Walker: CEO Sage

January 22, 2010 Featured

At the Paris launch of Sage X3 v.6, I had the opportunity to meet with Paul Walker, CEO Sage. It was our first time of meeting. In attendance were Christophe Letellier, GM Sage ERP X3 worldwide and Stuart Lynn, head of Sage mid-market R&D. I didn’t take the formal Q&A route but rather wanted to [...]

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