Sage News and Discussion

These ATC's have certainly dwinded in numbers.

Wow, I hadn't looked in a while. There used to be one in MN many moons ago.

YIKES. I had no idea.

Wonder what the reasons are? Too costly to maintain their status with Sage. Not enough enrollees to justify cost. Resellers got tired of the poaching from both the ATC and Sage...............

From 20 to 6 (and for those doing the math I had to add in Sage because they don't appear in the 2008 list of contacts for ATC sites but they are on the web site today). http://www.sagesoftware.com/education/private/atc_principal_contact_list.cfm

We're on that list and I (reasonably) consider Acuity Solutions to be the only training center east of Cincinnati because Sage never schedules Sage 100 courses.

Some of those on the old list are HRMS only..

We used to the the NJ ATC. When Sage started competing and doing all the on-line stuff and it became harder and harder to fill a class, the economics just didn't make sense anymore. I think the few remaining do it to try and poach new clients (even though they aren't supposed to). They take like 35% of your revenue between fees and the requirement to use their expensive training manuals. Then add in the marketing, scheduling admin, fixed space of a training room, PC refresh & maintenance, food service, etc etc, and having the average attendance being 2-3 (used to be 8-10 in the 90's) it doesn't leave much opportunity if you ask me.

Plus back in the 90's remote support was MUCH less prevalent than it is today. Factor in the webinars that people offer. There's lots of competition whereas before if people wanted training they had much fewer options to choose from