My notes from the Sage session held at ITA -- 2:30 to 4:00pm on Sunday 12/7/14 - most speaker had a limited amount of time (which was good) and I'm not entirely sure which of the items discussed are new vs repackaged or if there's more to some of them that Sage didn't have time to cover (Sage FAS Online for one, Sage View for another).
Ed Kless:
Short talk about the Sage mantra:
To be recognized as the most valuable support of small and medium-sized companies by creating greater freedom for them to succeed.
Opening - Ed Kless
Conversation - Donald Deshaies and Shawn Slavin
Sage 300 Online - Michelle Rowley
Sage Fixed Assets Online - Emile Karam
Sage Payments - Ray Merk
Sage View - Laurie Rodriguez
Donald Deshaies
- Conversations with Guy were usually about efficiency
- Stephen Kelly more inspirational
- ""The Golden Thread"" - Every touch point impacts customers
- High energy - ""a little bit of Doug Burgum""
- Impact to NA: TBD
Shawn Slavin:
Professional knowledge firm
Talked about removing timesheets
Results only work environment
Michelle Rowley - Sage 300 Online -
www.sage300online.com
- Dir Product Marketing - 100, 300 (incl online)
- 2 months at Sage
- (a) New presentation
- (b)
- Visual Process Flows
- Time and project management
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Sage Fixed Assets Online - Emile Karam - VP Product Management -
emile.karam@sage.com
- Sage mid-market - responsible for several that connect
- Goal: Fast onboarding
- Within minutes can be up and running
- No product demo or screen shots - is this an RDP? UPDATE: Screen shots shown - appear to be an update to Sage FAS
- Runs on MS Azure
- ? Integrations to Sage products?
- Note: Have not used the word Sage Data Cloud once
- One time fee - activation - $99 (waived through year end)
- Monthly fee starts at $19/mo for companies with NBV up to 500K
-
http://na.sage.com (look on web site)
-
emile.karam@sage.com
Sage Payments - Ray Merk - VP Strategic Partnerships -
raymond.merk@sage.com
- EMV - Chip & Pin (European Mastercard Visa)
- Apple Pay
- NFC
- Tokenization
- Bitcoin
- October 2015 liability date
- If you don't have chip/pin terminal then liability shifts
Sage View - Laurie Rodriguez -
laurie.rodrigue@sage.com
- Been at Sage 2 years
- Involved on surveys/focus groups
- CPA with 75-200 customers (target market)
- Most have various software - not all Sage - QB, Xero, Sage , etc.
- What differentiates Sage View = software agnostic
- Support all your clients no matter what software they're on
- Add ""what if "" analysis and ""benchmarking""
- Sage 50, QuickBooks , Sage On
- Goal: Two quarters be software agnostic