Sage 100

Anyone else on the call for Overview of Sage 100 ERP 2015 and the VIP Early Adoption?

La Vida Loco

Note the French name...or is it something else?

Yes. Let the mocking begin

Spanglish - Have been using the Sage 100 system longer than anyone can remember.

Yes. Gawd. She's reciting the same schpeil from Inspire Tour.

You mean no on is still that remembers

I am on a similar call in 6 weeks... Overview of Sage 100 ERp .... VUP (very unimportant person) We Hope You Quit program.

Is this for end users? Prospects? Clearly not for us!

PO copy feature is nice

Finally sorts for Bank Rec...

Only Sage has to add system wide functions one screen at a time.

Yes, so true

Can someone post a link. My original link no longer works.

Go to https://sagena.webex.com/sagena/onstage/g.php?d=648525428&t=a&jf=1&rId=&EA=eanderson%40eidebailly.com&ET=71af2c8cb7960ab3055d3b6b567c82a7&ETR=a7dd066c0b961ff7a13184d3c36fb184&RT=MiMxMQ==&p

https://sagena.webex.com/sagena/onstage/g.php?MTID=e8eae005c1049b9dfcde5c3ba28285414

Did I follow that correctly? CRM integration with Sage Mobile sales?

She can enter it into Sage mobile sales until they cancel it. She can enter it at standard price, but no customer specific prices or using any special price lists.

And it follows the RMA integration with CRM....

Probably through the standard sync. If you enter in mobile and it goes to Sage 100, it would go to CRM when they sync. Very clean...

OPT OUT!!!

OMFG, all my customer clerks want to hear directly from Sage!!! They can't wait for this feature.

@AlnoorCassim how can we modify that new login screen?

I nodded off, did I miss anything?

Beware the infancy of Sage Mobile Sales. It can't create a new customer on the fly. No Miscellaneous Items/Charges, Comments, or Special Items. Other head-scratcher omissions as well.

thanks to Obama for forcing Sage to add more features to the Payroll module

Wouldn't be so bad if they addressed the rest of the module too.

Or put it into the framework! Good news is that they will need to update it next year when Republican's change the law. Perhaps they will think about really maintaining it.

That's what I meant, thanks Gary.

Just asked and found out that the recording will be made available to all attendees...so I'll post it to the group.

this isn't the 90's - petition congress if you'd like any further developments to Sage 100. Ok , so some of the new PO features are nice.

So the spreadsheet will be available for users of 4.4 and older!

OMG do they have employers with 1000+ employees running off Sage 100 PR? I can't believe that even if it is a franchise with multiple location.

We have a staffing agency...

35,000 users of Sage 100 in NA

Who uses Sage Software? Mature companies that have been using for a long time. Really had to do a lot of research to figure that out. They are behind their competitors... not using technology well. Do they really want to say this out loud?

@GaryFeldman - what do you think about the Sage approach to the Sage Data cloud?

How do they define SMB? Where do they get their numbers from. OK - Now look at the customers who are buying new software. Where are the % for those customers. Our customers are technology backwards and are behind their competitors, so I want to get a Sage Mobile application with a fraction of the functionality offered by my competitors. TOO SLOW, too nave. Ask SIA people what they think of their relationship with Sage...

So I'm not going to go into any details on new features but here's a sales pitch for every bolt-on and half-assed integration that Sage offers....

WTH does Inventory Advisor have to do with 2015 release or VIP?

This is Inspire Tour content which was not very inspiring the first time around.

Did we just go into a commercial?

I can get you a NFR copy for $799 or your customer can have one for $99...

Fair to say that everyone one of these companies she is describing matches half a dozen of our customers. Which company on Sage 100 is a startup? Answer: None

Can't let this one go but note the response

Here is a recent example that we showed you last year We will keep showing this example, because it is the only one we have that will actually say nice things.

This is starting to feel like last year's ""road ahead"" fiasco.

http://assets.amuniversal.com/718719c06d6501301d80001dd8b71c47

Partners get to be part of the VIP Early Adoption this year as long as you bring in a client...

I""ve asked which features will be 2015 only versus PUs for 2014 and 2013. I hope 2014 and 2013 will be getting more than ACA stuff or retention rates will plummet.

Is Deborah Nelson the same person that did The Road Ahead at Summit?

Special subject line for VIP support

HELP!!

@JaneCavanaugh Yes.

we ask that you beta test our software because we do not have a team internally to do so

LOL...

Become a free beta tester for Sage ... not.

@JohnnyPabian a 90 Minder is the rock star for 2014 early adopter program. Does he want to do it again?

Training Topics: 1. Winning with Sage CRM ( 2 hours ) 2. 10 ways you can sell more Sage CRM ( 2 hours) 3. Overcoming Sage Mobile Sales Objections ( 2 hours ) 4. Life is beautiful with Sage Inventory Advisor ( 2 hours ) 5. New features in Sage 100 ERP 2015 (5 minute session) 6. Sell more Sage Fixed Assets (2 hours) 7. Sell Sage HRMS ( 2 hours ) 8. Your feedback about Sage 100 ERP 2015 (3 minutes)

Correction item 8 has been cancelled....

9. Client pissed at lack of Sage 100 features? How to sell ERP X3 (2 hours)

Training or sales presentations?

Learn how you have to use Sage Payment Services whether you like it or not!

How about maintenances bill for 2015?

I'm delighted to have attended this informative Sage 100 2015 Preview. That part must have lasted the first 8 minutes of the webinar (which I missed).

I'm not opening it up to customers because I am scared shitless

Why is that training only available to VIP program only? Most are not product related.

Refer to item 8 above in Wayne's post.

sagesell will have this training info...slowly

Can you sign up form the program and then not sign up any customers? Or anyone who participates please share the materials through 90 MInds...

It looks like you have a week to find 2015 candidates if you are looking to join VIP. Personally I cannot see what benefit there is to hustling to join.

We are thinking about payroll, just like we are thinking about multi-bin. We will keep thinking about it until the cows come home.

Payroll has been discussed since the Laurie Schultz days where they came this close to forcing Accpac payroll on everyone. Then it was going to be HRMS, I think Sage wised up and saw that they'd lose most payroll customers if they forced the change.

No surprise on Bus Framework updates..but had to ask just so it's recorded

I wonder when 2016 will see the light of day. Product updates are pretty much bug or technical fixes which means that the feature release are now well over a year apart.

In 2018

I give them credit for taking live questions. The continued push of bolt-ons and other assorted non-core doo-dads is disappointing and I'm not sure it belongs in the ""What's new in 2015"" but I guess it's all part of the Sage mandate. Noticed a few times that Deborah indicated ""Sage mandate"" regarding outsourced payroll integration. In many ways I think Deborah is only the messenger so we cannot blame her for the zig zag development efforts at Sage. I see her as many (many) times better than some of the prior product managers who probably played a bigger role in sidetracking Sage 100 than anything else.

As Sage thinks about Payroll, Job Cost, MFG, Multi-Bin, our customers think about NetSuite

Don't forget about our vendors who will be at MOTM like xTuple and Acumatica. Of course I could shill for SAP B1 as well, but those types are not the same customer type. We have 2 B1 who are funded start-ups that want to be ahead of the curve in technology with integrations with ecommerce sites and vendors out of the box. Sage does not attract those customers anymore.

The Sage 100 project we sold last month was a guy who used to use MAS 90 and loved it. He deferred the advanced stuff for a later phase.

@GaryFeldman - right you are, I was going to revise that to, ""our customers think about other systems."" ""New"" customers purchase Sage 100 because they've used it before so the learning curve is minimal and they feel confident that it can adequately do the job..

Anyone know where to download the spreadsheet referenced in the 90 Minds link below? I must be getting snow blindness because I don't see the click anywhere.... http://community.90minds.com/2015/02/06/sage-releases-spreadsheet-for-input-of-aca-data-to-sage-100-erp-via-visual-integrator/

Sage KB - standby

https://support.na.sage.com/selfservice/viewdocument.do?noCount=true&externalId=57345&sliceId=1&cmd=displayKC&dialogID=92735&docType=kc&isLoadPublishedVer=&stateId=92736&docTypeID=DT_Article&ViewedDocsListHelper=com.kanisa.apps.common.BaseViewedDocsListHelperImpl

Thanks @WayneSchulz

Call me crazy. I have two clients I am approaching about 2015 ""VIP"" now with the idea of going live when they release the ""final "" general release. They both are core distribution users with only one or two companies and no 3rd party stuff or payroll. They are upgrading anyway.

@alanniergarth - They are the perfect candidates, smallish, no enhancements, easy to upgrade....