Sage Summit 2011 Customer Guide PDF

March 2, 2011

Planning on attending the Sage North America combined partner and customer conference in Washington DC July 10-15, 2011? Here’s a PDF of the conference brochure for customers (there’s presumably a separate brochure for partners which I’ve not yet located). The PDF contains a grid layout of customer sessions and is handy to print out and [...]

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Microsoft Dynamics ERP – Buy 1 License Get 2 Free

March 1, 2011

Microsoft today rolled out a buy one get two free license promotion for its Microsoft Dynamics ERP software line. With the initial purchase of a Foundation Pack for Microsoft Dynamics NAV, Microsoft Dynamics GP, or Microsoft Dynamics SL, the customer gets one user as standard and, under the terms of this offer, will get up [...]

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SWK Technologies Closes Another Sage ERP X3 Deal

March 1, 2011

Trey Resources, the parent company of New Jersey based SWK Technologies, announced today that they’ve just completed the largest software sale in the companies history. The sale was for Sage ERP X3 which Sage re-launched in early 2010. Sage ERP X3 was acquired by Sage in 2005. Prior to branding as Sage ERP X3 it [...]

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Sage Summit Omitting Facebook,Twitter Sessions?

February 25, 2011

Hopefully I’m just using the Sage Summit Session Search engine wrong (or it’s broken) because when I search for Facebook sessions I see none. Similar searches for “Blogging”, “WordPress”, “Twitter” all come up empty as well. Yes, I get that some of the marketing sessions like: P-CHN21 – Successful Marketing in the Age of the [...]

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Sage Summit 2011 Must Attend – A Sunday Session About Nothing

February 24, 2011

Sage Software opened up registration yesterday for their Sage Summit 2011. For the first time this year they’re featuring a full week of combined customer and partner conference topics running from July 10-15, 2011. This year they’re also running an all star cast of speakers on a pre-conference agenda they’re billing as Super Sunday (link). [...]

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Sage Select Partner Oates and Company On Board With Intacct

February 14, 2011

Sage Select 2011 and Presidents Circle 2008 Sage partner Oates and Company has announced today that they’ve joined the Intacct Business Partner Program. This announcement marks the second large Sage partner to join the Intacct Channel following JMT Consulting Group in October 2010. The designation of Sage Select 2011 indicates that until now the organization [...]

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Sage Analyst Event: Branding is still a work in process in North America

February 7, 2011

Sage have just posted the video and audio from the analyst event held February 2, 2011 in London. Within this event the most interesting segments are probably the Q&A. Skip ahead (use the pull down menus to change from presentation to presentation). The final Q&A was telling for North America when Sage replies that outgoing [...]

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Sage Fund Accounting Student Edition Provided With New Wiley Textbook

January 27, 2011

Sage North America is shipping a new educational version of their fund accounting software to be bundled with Government and Not-for-Profit Accounting: Concepts and Practices 5th Edition. While the press release refers to this as Sage Fund Accounting its likely that this is the Sage MIP Fund Accounting system. Full release.

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Why I Hate Selling Bolt Ons Outside The Core ERP System

January 25, 2011

I just received this note from a client who is using Sage ERP MAS 90. They bought the fixed assets program directly from the software publisher. Today they received notice that an upgrade was ready for fixed assets. Here’s the note I received: Wayne, I come to you with a question on the Sage Fixed [...]

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