Sage Software

Sage Software Inc.
6531 Irvine Center Drive
Irvine, California 92618 USA
(800) 854-3415
www.sagenorthamerica.com

History

The Sage Group plc, commonly known as Sage, is a global enterprise software company headquartered in the United Kingdom. It is the world’s third-largest supplier of enterprise resource planning software (behind Oracle and SAP), the largest supplier to small businesses, and has 6.1 million customers worldwide. It has offices in 24 countries and its products and services are available in more than 160 countries.

Sage North America is part of The Sage Group, plc, a global supplier of business management software and services to 5.8 million customers worldwide. From small start-ups to larger organizations, Sage software solutions are designed to help companies manage their business processes. Formed in 1981, the company was floated on the London Stock Exchange in 1989, and now employs more than 5,000 people in North America and 14,800 people worldwide.

Markets

• Small to mid-sized manufacturers and distributors
• Discrete and Process

Products

Sage MAS 500 ERP – is an integrated series of applications covering most areas of business for enterprises with 20 to 500 employees. These areas include customer relationship management (CRM), accounting and financials, project accounting, distribution, manufacturing, human resources (HR), payroll, enterprise reporting, and electronic commerce.

Sage ERP X3 -provides midsized and larger businesses with rich and fully integrated functionality in all areas of business for accounting and financial management, purchasing, inventory, sales, customer relationship management (CRM), and manufacturing. There is a range of configured offerings, covering the standard requirements of user industries, as well as being easily adaptable to specific organizations:

• Sage ERP X3 Discrete Suite addresses the needs of midsized discrete manufacturers in industrial and consumer goods, medical devices, paper, and other hard goods industries.
• Sage ERP X3 Process Suite focuses on the unique and specialized requirements of midsized process manufacturers in food and beverage, chemicals, cosmetics, pharmaceutical, and related industries.
• Sage ERP X3 Distribution Suite is designed to meet the demands of wholesale distributors and the distribution arms of manufacturers.

Sage ERP X3 is built on the Sage Application Framework for the Enterprise X3 technology (SAFE X3), the common development platform shared by a full set of Sage applications for mid-to-large enterprises. Its multitier service-oriented architecture (SOA)/Web-native design offers tremendous savings and benefits to businesses, particularly for reducing IT infrastructure costs and expanding business opportunities. Among other features, the SAFE X3 platform provides users with best-in-class collaboration capabilities (Web services, second-generation workflow engine, etc.), powerful business intelligence (BI) tools, and a unified and highly collaborative user interface.

Marketing Strategy

Sage has a full compliment of direct sales offices and markets their products through a partner channel across North America.

For information on Sage Direct Offices: www.sagenorthamerica.com/Company/Fact-Sheet