Sage User Network

Thursday 17th September 2009

Amanda Turvill

ERP Product Manager

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Reminder of the Line 500 journey…

Where we were….

Line 500Functionally rich ERP solution,

viewed as stable, reliableLong heritage – always Upper Mid Market

Large installed base, loyal customersBUT

Dated look and feel, older technologyDifficult to integrate (CRM/Developer add ons)Customisations leading to low upgrade rates

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Reminder of the Line 500 Sage 1000 journey…Where we were…. Where we are….

Line 500Line 500

Minor improvementsStill strong installed base

Sage 1000 Less functionally rich ERP

but strong integration with CRMBetter UI and “demoability”

BUT – demo 1000 to sell 500And 500 customers not

migrating

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Reminder of the Line 500 Sage 1000 journey…Where we were…. Where we are….

Line 500 Line 500

Sage 1000

Where we’re headed…

Sage 1000 v3.0

ERP

CRM

SLX

OR

And beyond v3.0…HR/Payroll

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Sage 1000 suite

Sage 1000Integrated Business

Processes, Data, Reporting and

Analysis

Accounting & Finance

Business Operations. Internal and with trading partners

HR & Payroll

Sales Management

Marketing Management

Customer Management, Service and Support

Specialist Industry Processes in Manufacturing and Retail

Business Planning

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Sage 1000 roadmapCurrent Next 12 months BeyondJuly 2010

Today

Next 12 months

V3

Product• Product Roadmap• Technology Roadmap Refresh Enhance

• Line 500 7.1• Sage 1000 2.3

• Legal and Fiscal service pack• Asset 1000• Sage BI 5.6• Sage 1000 HR• German Accreditation• Virtualisation support• Sales Logix Integration 7.5• Sage 1000 Payroll 2010

• Sage 1000 3.0• Sage BI 6.0• Sage 1000 3.1• Sage 1000 Payroll 2011• Sage 1000 3.2• Sage 1000 3.3

Tax Service Pack

•2010 Tax Service Pack

•EC Sales List Changes:

– Extension of EC Sales List report functionality

•2010 VAT Rate changes:

– Enhancement of sales order processing invoicing/credit note functionality

•  Intra-EC Invoice changes:

– References to be printed on the SOP invoices .

•Easy to install and respect customer configuration

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• Refresh across the ERP moduleso Focus to date on Financial and Commercial modules

• Lists within key areas of the ERP moduleso How this will benefit users

• Sage Reporting solution across the ERP moduleso Sage report designer scoped and collaboration in place with Sage

teams and customers

• Interoperability with other Sage productso Focus on the scope for SalesLogix and SageCRM

Sage 1000 3.0 update – Current Scope

Thank you