Sage News and Discussion

Sage Source -- hard to tell exactly what this is going to do but I'm thinking a mix between Socialcast and a bunch of pitches to customers to use Sage blessed (aka paid promotions) applications.

This rolls out first to Sage HRMS customers. I'll have to go back through the Sage earnings report for 2011 however I do recall reading about this being in use by another Sage division.

Sage offers something called Sage People Advice in UK

Looks as if Sage would like this to become more of a company wide portal where their customer's employees could view pay stubs -- and presumably be introduced to a wide variety of offers from which Sage earns commission. I don't know what efforts this will take to setup --- in other words will consultants be required to install and configure? My guess would be no and that this is an effort to sidestep the channel totally.

This must be some 3rd party with sage branding. Perhaps the company that provides the dashboard service for X3. Can't think of their name.

Netvibes? I think this is all part of Sage's growth plan. What they have probably figured out is they have a tough time selling new licenses so sell more to the existing customer. My guess is that this will not involve having to pay any commission to partners (and I'm not entirely sure that we're due anything) unless there is a direct active participation in making the sale.