SageLive

Sage cutting jobs, outlook weak

March 19, 2009 General

It is little more than rumour being spread by Deutsche Bank in the FT but it looks like Sage will have to shed jobs: Deutsche estimated that Sage might be able to cut up to 455 staff, or 3 per cent of its total, at an exceptional cost of £18m. That would require the group [...]

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Xero's hockeystick

February 19, 2009 Cloud Computing/SaaS

This from Xero should put a sock in the on-demand naysayers’ mouths Things are accelerating here at Xero, we’ve added 1000 customers in 50 days. The company also claims to have 1,000+ paying customers in the UK. That is an excellent achievement but as I have said many time before, there is plenty of room [...]

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SageLive, part 2: architecture, product and mobile

December 17, 2008 Featured

In the first part, I talked about Sage’s go to market and highlighted some of the business factors the market will need to consider. In this part I look at what’s on offer through the lens of an interactive demonstration of a live beta. Sage is in open beta as of tomorrow morning so please [...]

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SageLive, part 1: the market issues

December 17, 2008 General

Following on earlier stories that Sage is readying an on-demand product, I can confirm this is the case. I had a briefing with Sage’s commerical and technical people to get a feel for the product, its go to market and positioning. What follows is necessarily abbreviated.This deals with the commercial aspects of Sage’s offering. The [...]

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