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Sage Branding North American Roadmap

August 24, 2011 by Wayne Schulz

I was of the impression that these items were under embargo however they seem to have appeared in public and most of the details being shown privately to select partners has been reposted on LinkedIn.

Here’s what we understand so far about the Sage re-branding.

On stage at the Sage Summit 2011 conference incoming CEO Pascal Houillon surprised the audience of Sage Business Partners with an announcement that most of the products in Sage’s North American portfolio would be rebranded with a numbering scheme similar to that used in Sage Europe.


What followed was apparent confusion for some in the Sage channel as evidenced by this very lengthy 130+ message LinkedIn message thread.

Sage have been meeting privately with select VARS to roll out their concept of re-branding and solicit private feedback. When asked if he’d be going on the road to do a general listening tour with the entire channel, EVP Marketing Dennis Frahmann paused before stating that Sage had no plans to gather general feedback from partners.

As conversation continued on LinkedIn around this re-branding efforts Sage seemed to move into position to participate in the conversation (too late in my opinion) and issued several general statements to clarify their branding.

According to Sage EVP of Corporate Marketing Dennis Frahmann, not all product names will be reduced to a numbering system as per this post he made on August 24, 2011:

The current straw case naming architecture that has been shared with a number of partners and advisory groups for comments proposes that the name of Sage ERP X3 be untouched. There are other products as well that would not get renamed. Our intent is to publish the complete naming architecture to our partner community later this fall.

Frahmann also followed up in a post here with further reasoning on why certain products might not be renamed:

Second, as noted in an earlier FAQ to partners, not every product is being renamed. Some programs and products, currently designed to support all of Sage, already have generic names that will remain the same or change only slightly. Other products, due to either specific business plans or limited intent to acquire new customers, will not change their names. Only a limited set of numbers will be used to create families of offerings; each renamed product will not have a distinct number.

Finally, while this is a North American-led initiative, we are working closely with our international colleagues. If a product is renamed, it will be renamed for all regions in which it is sold.

Sage will around the end of 2011 announce final plans for their new branding initiative. Implementation will follow at the start of 2012 with full branding rollout presently scheduled for the end of 2012.

Product names for some (but not all) products will go away. Instead of referring to product names you’ll refer to them as follows (tentative and preliminary examples – not complete):

Sage 50: Sage Simply, etc.

This will also roughly describe products used by companies with 50 or fewer employees and under $50 million of sales.

Sage 100: Sage ERP MAS 90, etc.

This will also roughly describe products used by companies with 100 or fewer employees and under $100 million of sales.

Sage 300: Sage ERP Accpac, etc.

This will include mid-market applications that also are distributed outside North America.

Sage 500: Sage ERP MAS 500

This will also roughly describe products used by companies with up to 500 employees and $500 million of sales.

It appears Sage ERP X3 will retain its name. As of right now there’s not much information on whether Peachtree will rebrand. Earlier reports has Sage stating that Sage Peachtree would be referred to as Sage 50. Also later in the year watch for a new SaaS offering which Sage CEO Houillon briefly announced from the podium. While details were not announced it’s likely that Sage will leverage some of their overseas product technology for this.

Filed Under: mas200, Sage 100 ERP Tagged With: brand, roadmap, sage

Sage ERP MAS90 Roadmap Updated – Installed MAS 90 Customers At 45,000

May 21, 2011 by Wayne Schulz

Sage just issued a public roadmap for their Sage ERP MAS 90 and MAS 200 brand of accounting software.

What’s interesting about this map is that it’s the first we’ve noticed they’ve put a count on the number of customers that use MAS 90 or MAS 200. This count, 45,000, seems to match up with the assumptions that we’d been making from about two years ago.

Other interesting items of note:

– Expect a hosted MAS 90 Cloud Deployment in 2H 2011
– Cloud deployment features only modules that are at framework (no payroll/manufacturing, visual integrator, custom office)
– Hosting provided through Sage and ultimately at QTS Atlanta Metro Data
– Sage ERP MAS 90 Hosted is SAS 70 compliant

– First look at Sage ERP MAS 90 v5 – including new auto-update feature!

Sage MAS90 Roadmap May 2011

Filed Under: Sage 100 ERP Tagged With: cloud, hosted, mas200, mas90 v5, roadmap, Sage 100 ERP, sas70

Sage ERP Accpac Roadmap – May 2011

May 19, 2011 by Wayne Schulz

Sage have just released their May 2011 roadmap outlining the planned development for what they term their global strategic ERP solution.

Version 6 was released in the fourth quarter of 2010 and included portal, snapshots, inquiry and SageCRM workflow. The next big release is slated for Q2 of 2011 when Intelligence Designer gets a reporting wizard, credit card processing (presumably from Sage Payment Solutions) gets integrated and MS SQL Server gets competitively priced.

Watch for Accpac to finally move toward a web client for financial and operational moduules sometime around Q4 2011. This should be the starting point of the “Cloud Accpac” that Accpac VARS have been drooling about for years.

Sage Accpac Roadmap May 2011

Filed Under: Sage 100 ERP Tagged With: accpac, roadmap, sage

Sage ERP MAS 90 & MAS 200 Roadmap – August 2010

September 7, 2010 by Wayne Schulz

Filed Under: mas200, Sage 100 ERP Tagged With: mas200, roadmap, Sage 100 ERP

Sage updates MAS 90 and MAS 200 Product Roadmap 7/2010

July 21, 2010 by Wayne Schulz

Sage yesterday released their roadmap showing the planned features and product update releases. Looks as if the major change this year is to wisely limit the 12/2010 product update to payroll related updates (tax tables, etc).

MAS 200 SQL gets re-affirmed as on-track for delivery later this year (beta started in July) and pricing surprisingly is the same as regular MAS 200. Sage doesn’t come out and say it but I assume that MAS 200 SQL and MAS 200 co-exist (as opposed to MAS 200 SQL replacing plain old MAS 200) because the SQL version will not initially support non-framework modules like payroll and manufacturing.

There’s a nice explanation of the FRX options when the Sage ERP Business Insights starts rolling out now in August 2010.

Sage MAS 90 and 200 Roadmap – PUBLIC 2-1-10

Sage EES is being merged into MAS 200 starting with version 4.5. Details on this are still a little hazy – “Fixed Assets Bundled With Per User Based Pricing” – does this mean that it’s similar to how Credit Card or Direct Deposit is included but you have to pay to use it? I’d be sure to verify these details before quoting.

Lastly I’m still awaiting the introduction of subscription pricing for new module purchases. Sage announced this at Insights but left off all details and I received a quick promise that I’d be seeing details. Don’t confuse this pricing with the subscription that’s currently offered for maintenance renewals where you can pay on a credit card. My understanding from the presentation is that ultimately Sage plans to let customers buy new licenses based on a recurring charge of $ x per month.

Link :

http://www.scribd.com/doc/26259049/Sage-MAS-90-and-200-Roadmap-PUBLIC-2-1-10

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