General Consultant Discussion

Sage added the detailed agenda for both the partner and customer days to their [Sage Summit San Diego page](https://events.sage.com/profile/web/index.cfm?PKwebID=0x2908ec77&varPage=home).

Wow, I have read the agenda for both customer and partner and I will say no thanks again. Atlanta is a couple of hours from me and I wouldn't drive there to attend this.

I agree. I looked at this for quite some time last night. It appears to be largely the same as the Sage Sessions agendas which were very light on content and heavy on reliance on endorsed partner presentations. I think the agenda is good for customers who are looking for more information on solutions they may be considering paying $15k or more to purchase. But for partners I struggle to see how I would get anything out of partner day that was different than these all-hands webinars. #NoThanks

There's still no listing of exhibitors/sponsors. It's widely expected that the same type of sponsors (national partners // endorsed solutions) will be the only ones allowed. Some sponsors may booth share (as they did for some Sage Sessions stops).

Endorsed solution providers only is what I'm hearing for sponsorships.

@JimWoodhead, you should rent out the local coffee shop and put up a 90M Welcomes You!!! banner.

@JimWoodhead @JeffSchwenk . . . or a sandwich board!

The sessions were added, but I did not find anywhere to actually sign up for them. I sent an e-mail to SageSummitUS about that and to confirm the pricing: The ""Pricing"" section on the Summit site: Early Bird of $199 through 12/31/2018 Standard of $299 through 1/31/2019 Starting 2/1/2019 $399 The ""FAQ"" section on the Summit site: Early Bird of $199 through 1/13/2019 Standard of $249 starting 1/14/2019 No other rate after that. Does anyone at Sage review what they put on this site? Or is this like tier and margin documents or promos where they hide things on subsequent pages or in tiny print. I agree about the Partner Day topics and session topic comments above. There is not much substance to any of this. It's designed around what Sage wants to push, as opposed to being generally informative and educational for the partners and customers. Did they ask anyone in the channel or the BPAC about these topics? I had planned to go to Atlanta and possibly San Diego primarily for networking, but now I question who will be there.

I also hope that 90 Minds is considered to be at a higher level than customers or other channel members, so Sage presents a higher quality of information at Meeting of the Minds. I hope it's not the same as their script at Summit Partner Day. It will have to be similar, since Summit is only 2 weeks prior, and there is not enough time or resources to prepare 2 approaches.

Does Sage know something we don't know? Every time slot at Summit has something specifically for Sage 50cloud - and not one of them is migrating to 100cloud or 300cloud. No sessions for Sage (Business Cloud) Accounting, Sage (Business Cloud) Financials, Sage Intacct or Sage Enterprise Management.

Intacct (Sage Accounting) and Enterprise both have their own conferences. Sage Live (Financials) is locked in the basement hoping nobody asks where it went. I predict the same partner PPT tap dance at MOTM. The Sage events will pull mostly locals IMO. Can't see them drawing materially more than Sessions but who knows.

Sage's emphasis has been the Sage Business Cloud with Intacct and Enterprise Management being key parts of that. They want customers of the legacy ""cloud"" packages to seriously consider both of those packages when appropriate. They may mention them in the keynotes and have them as integral parts of the exhibits, but the lack of even overview sessions on these does not seem to support the Sage Business Cloud initiative. On the other hand, out of respect Sage should have a memorial session or at least a moment of silence for Sage Live. Based on the sessions agenda, I would not be surprised to see some 100 customers migrating to 50cloud. Honestly, I cannot imagine who of the management players is behind the planning of Summit. It's most likely a marketing group that can be easily blamed and fired when it turns out to be a failure.

Noticed that on the 'customer' day there is a 'Partner - Sponsored Session' at each time slot. Now why would they want to keep the partners occupied and out of the room while they talked to the customers?