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Sage launches X3 v.6

January 22, 2010 Cloud Computing/SaaS

Sage launched X3 v.6 on Wednesday in Paris. It is the first time I recall Sage putting on a big show for one of its products. For those that don’t know, X3 is the 2005 acquired French Adonix ERP product that has since been developed under the Sage brand. It is aimed at the mid-tier [...]

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Does saas matter to Sage?

July 28, 2009 Innovation

In a post entitled Saas doesn’t matter to Sage, the author says: Dennis Howlett contends that Sage are more interested in keeping their financial analyst community happy than their customers.  To my mind this is to fundamentally misunderstand Sage. It is absolutely the case that they are a public company, so their financial performance is [...]

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MIS: Sage dealer of the year shuts shop

July 8, 2009 General

Last evening Wayne Schultz contacted me to say that MIS Group, a US Sage Dealer of the Year in 2007 and 2008 has suddenly shut shop. According to Wayne: Based on discussions with several different people it seems there had been ongoing issues with financing. This much was also confirmed on the company’s own web [...]

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Why Sage may never get saas

July 5, 2009 Cloud Computing/SaaS

Ever since I started this weblog the question of whether Sage would ‘get’ saas/on-demand is one that has plagued me. I think I’ve finally worked out the problem courtesy of a chance conversation I had with an ex-Sage senior executive. For some time, I’ve contended that Sage is more interested in keeping its financial analyst [...]

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Making sense of Sage's H1 results

May 11, 2009 Featured

As the UK’s software bellweather, what Sage reports matters in the marketplace. Full marks to them for providing plenty of detailed analysis (PDF) although making sense of it is not quite so straightforward. The key points to understand are: Sage benefited from favourable exchange rates That benefit masked underlying weakness in software sales Maintenance revenue [...]

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Sage's CEO fumbles the cloud ball

April 29, 2009 Cloud Computing/SaaS

Sage’s CEO Paul Walker talked to Silicon recently. Despite a number of questions about cloud computing, Mr Walker skirted around many of the issues raised preferring instead to talk up the company’s maintenance revenue stream. From this perch, that’s not a great idea. The opening shot: …one of the great things about our model is [...]

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Pearl goes to V2.0, new pricing options, MYOB safe haven

April 27, 2009 Cloud Computing/SaaS

Pearl Software [disclosure: Pearl sponsors this site] briefed me last week on the new version of the service along with details of new pricing options. I have reviewed the service before but on this occasion I was interested in diving deeper into the portal and accounting practice specific functionality along with a few other goodies. [...]

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Saas accounting not growing – utter nonsense

April 16, 2009 Cloud Computing/SaaS

It is irritating to read stories where it is glaringly obvious that a strawman has been set up for demolition. That isn’t objective enquiry, it’s agenda setting of the worst kind. It usually arises because the person has already decided what they want to write and fits what they get to the story, even when [...]

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Sage looking for vountary redundnacies

April 14, 2009 General

I have long argued that Sage will face significant challenges. It should come as no surprise that last weekend, Chronicle Live reported that Sage is looking for voluntary redundancies. I heard rumours to that effect earlier in the week but as with all rumours, I don’t publish until I see something that confirms. What is [...]

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KashFlow goes free, becomes a PaaS player

March 5, 2009 Featured

It’s going to be a KashFlow day here so bear with me. Duane Jackson just announced (via Twitter) that KashFlow is free for the firast year to existing MYOB, Quickbooks, or Sage users. The offer runs through to 30th April. According to the Kashflow site: Register for a 60 day free trial of KashFlow here [...]

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