General Consultant Discussion

Just received this about the Sage ITA Meeting. Looks like this is open to all attending ITA. The Sage meeting is rather mundane (at least the last one I went to way) however if you look at the list of who is attending from Sage - they are not sending their B team... http://www.evernote.com/shard/s1/sh/bb937cbd-1930-4085-8041-911877184a3a/18c3fc2801383de4890451857cf62bcf

It sounds as exciting as last year's event.

Oh I'm not going - just interesting that Sage puts in a big show here. Technically though I believe the execs fly in for one day then they leave. Except Tom Miller and Ed Kless I don't think any stuck around or were super visible.

Sage now does this before every ITA meeting. They used to do this every now and again but after Intacct got serious about it, Sage doubled down. They don't put the same level of planning into the process but they have something every time. Intacct uses ITA as it's partner development program rather than build it in-house like Sage did when Taylor was there. To capitalize on this, they hold a partner meeting before every ITA meeting, brining in their CEO and other ringers to coach the channel. I believe they have over half their channel in ITA now.