Sage North America today announced that Sage 100 2016 and Sage 300 2016 will be released on November 2, 2015. During Summit 2015 Sage spotlighted a number of expected features, and while they’ve yet to release an upgrade guide; based on those discussions we expect the following:
Modernization Strategy (November 4, 2015 target date)
* Modern UI
* Full integration of payments and payroll
* Select experience improvements
* Functional extensions delivered as features as a service
* Cloud services to connect with the ecosystem
* Architecture updates affecting integration, customization and updates
* Mobile access across multiple devices
Demonstration
* Color themes
* Changed menu structure
* Only see tasks that you have rights to
* New UI – can make fonts medium, large
* Theme can be set by company code
* The UI will apply to non-framework module.
Other things:
* Customer PO up to 30 characters
* Add extened item description for misc items, charges, special items
* Add default value to all extended description
* Adding additional sales order quotes to order types other than standard
* New sales order option to define default expiration date for quotes
* NEw sales order option to default to the date when promoting quote to order
* Ability to move a document between batches
* Additional “quick wins”
