Sage News and Discussion

Remember Sage has their ""All Hands"" call today. I think it's happening mid-morning. If you hear anything about the topic please do share.

I thought that call was at the end of the month. Do you have a link? Need to register for this one probably.

Kevin, the call is for Sage employees only. Some sort of internal announcement.

Thanks

October 18 11am PT / 2pm ET = Sage Branding Call http://goo.gl/PrK5W October 28 11am PT / 2pm ET - Sage All Partner Call w/Pascal

Notice for today's meeting

We are all worried about this and here they will just be announcing that they are switching from plastic forks and plastic spoons to just using plastic sporks instead to help the environment. :)

Or firming up plans for the company Christmas party!

I hear that it's nothing earth shattering...

Any word????

Yes, Dawn is correct as always. they decided to switch from plastic forks and spoons to ones made of bio-degradable and edable tofu.

<GUESS> 1. Here's our branding plans (after all I think they're slated to discuss next week) 2. Having 17(ish) VP's leave is no big deal 3. Expect to see some SaaSy stuff (SageOne likely) 4. Stay the course. A thousand points of lite. 5. Here's who is reporting to who in the absence of whomever </GUESS>

Seriously??

Any insight into why so many people left Sage recently?

From what I'm hearing, there was nothing that we've haven't already heard.

@JenniferChriston I think the departures are a mixture of: 1. New CEO 2. Housecleaning 3. People who saw Sage UK driving the bus in NA and figured if they could find a position now was as good a time as any to depart It's no secret that North America is lagging the remainder of Sage in earnings growth. In my opinion Sue Swenson was brought in to stabilize the after tax earnings (which she did), lay down some basic organizational stricture.

Here's a recorded video of the live stream http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y-AXTx4PcKI

That's an Alec Baldwin video.

Dan - with all the money saved from no longer branding individual products, they can now afford to hire Mr. Baldwin to ""fire up"" the team. Kudos to Sage for having the guts to get him in there.

PR pay dividends and buy back stock.

...took me a while. I get it now.