I want to ask if the same developers responsible for the Sage Partner Portal will be responsible for the Provisioning Portal.
Based on the requirement for IE use only ( within 6 weeks they may have Chrome compatibility) I'm afraid of what the answer would be.
Also, if I understand this correctly the restore from a backup is only at the entire VM rollback level. With SPC there presently is no way to restore a single file. Let's hope no customer needs to restore an older SY0CTL....
Does not appear like you can self-install Sage 100 - have to roll through the provisioning portal and download the boilerplate installation.
So, from my vantage point, Sage Partner Cloud is for the laggard type Sage 100 user who is not in the cloud, probably not using a terminal server. It is a solution for a company that ONLY wants to run Sage 100 in the cloud and nothing else. In all likelihood, you're talking about 5 or fewer users. Therefore security is pretty basic because it is going to be focused on Sage 100 needs.
From a partner perspective, I'm afraid that Sage will have an all or nothing access to their provisioning portal.
Take my situation - I work through another partner. I shouldn't have full access to every customer in that provisioning portal. But I should have access to mine. Hopefully Sage has considered that this might be a common situation.
Much like access to the Sage Partner Portal list of customers does not seem to be restricted ( ie you either see all customers or none ). It is scary to think about whether someone could have 20 or 30 customers on Sage Partner Cloud and to manage those customers the partner might have to give full access to all their support people. The presentation wasn't very clear on how or if access to the provisioning portal could be restricted to the employee of firms so that they only have access to those customers that they actively work with.
As they introduce the concept of Sage ID my mind went back to the Sage Intacct conference where they walked about how they wanted to get everyone up on a Sage ID for exchanging some common transaction info. I wonder whether Sage Partner Cloud is one way that Sage is pushing to get some of their legacy customers setup with a Sage ID.
After 10 years of going through upgrades and new implementations, I have to think most Sage partners have worked out a routine for setup and configuration that doesn't take significant time ( Sage does now that you can blow past their awkward reg key enter with a text file, right? ).
Aside from allowing Sage to give customers a Sage ID and to use tier to incent partners - I'm still not sure what business issue that solution solves.
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Wayne Schulz - Schulz Consulting - 860-516-8990
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