Sage News and Discussion

Sage Business Cloud Presentation This concept and launch seems like it is premature in terms of Sage being ready, which is typical. It looks great, but I'm not sure we will see much more than what is there today for a few months at least.

I have a really hard time taking anything that follows ""Sage 100c is a cloud product"" seriously...

Hybrid Cloud"". Darcy Kurtz, the Sage Marketing person doing the presentation, mentioned 100c in terms of ""taking advantage of some of the cloudification in the product"". Huh? Is the new favorite drink at Sage Kool-Aid?

I was out returning one kid to college today and missed this. How did Sage say they'd measure sales of Sage Business Cloud? Is this a bundle people purchase or is it mostly marketing? I know that it is Sage One, Sage Live, Sage Intacct, Sage X3 and Sage People. Are customers getting a bundle price?

No pricing discussed. It seems to me to be conceptual marketing aimed at generally convincing prospects that Sage is a ""cloud company."" The did segment the 4 products (One, Live, Intacct, x3), but their method didn't connect for me. This was all to support their new website. This looks to me like it will produce leads for the 4 products, not much else. It is hard to find anything on it for legacy products, although they are there. If you are selling Intacct, you're in good shape. Otherwise ...

@WayneSchulz - ""Returning one kid to college""? They ran away from college and came back home? Sounds like it is time to sell the house and move but not tell them where. They have your cell phone (and probably your credit card) for emergencies.... RE Sage and the cloud? I just see a cloud of smoke.......

. . . . . and mirrors.

Enclosed is the slide on the marketing model. Smoke and mirrors.

@JerryNorman That's the way I felt about the presentation. I also believe that the vast majority of partners will continue to go about their business with 100c and 300c, because that is where the money is right now.

This might be a ""pay no attention to Our Sage Live installed base #"" type pivot. Sage PR offered up a QA with Sage over this but I'm afraid that once I start asking any type substantive question I'll have to deal with the hassle of Sage calling DSD Business Systems to complain (again) so I think I'll pass.

Cloud Native products... hmm like Adonix with a web UI? Although the marketing and optics are good, it still looks a little like lipstick and a shiny new toy to me

Did Sage hire Elon Musk to market Sage Business Cloud? ""Put your name on a list and we'll eventually deliver a product"". I think if there was anything there, they would have given us a demo. Right now it is just pictures!

I was thinking more along the lines of Sean Spicer...

http://mysagesell.com/portal/archives/24511

The recording, PPT deck and FAQ are available now in MySageSell. It's an interesting read.