Sage Commits to "Customers for Life" With Major Investments in Products, Partnerships and People to Power the Small & Medium Business Economy

NEW ORLEANS, LA--(Marketwired - Jul 28, 2015) - Sage Summit -- Stephen Kelly, CEO of Sage today praised Small & Medium Businesses as the engine of the global economy and committed his company's smart technology, global reach and the imagination of its people to energize their success.

Describing a "renaissance" taking place at Sage, Stephen Kelly outlined a roadmap for major investment in global products, partnerships and people, built upon an ambition to keep every customer for life.

Taking to the stage during his keynote, which included VIP guests Deepak Chopra and General Colin Powell, at Sage Summit in New Orleans, Stephen Kelly told customers:

"Around the world Small & Medium Businesses are the engines that make the economy grow. Here in the U.S., fully 66% of the 12 million new jobs created since 2010 were created by Small & Medium Businesses like yours. You live a human story that begins and ends with great personal sacrifice.

"When I arrived at Sage, I discovered that we had to change if we were to be a proper partner and keep each of you as a customer for life. I call it our renaissance."

Products

Stephen Kelly emphasized significant recent investment by Sage to co-create with customers a range of revolutionary new and refreshed, cloud-based products.

Sage Live, the new real-time Sage social accounting solution, is being made available for roll-out to Small & Medium Businesses in the U.S. today, with availability in the U.K. and Ireland due to follow in September. New apps are launched today for Sage Impact, the fully customizable Sage online hub for accountants, developed in partnership with the accounting community. Today also sees the release of Sage X3 in the cloud, which gives mid-sized companies the power of the Sage flagship enterprise solution without sacrificing business agility for functionality and integration.

Meanwhile, small business accounting solution Sage One has over the past year been completely redesigned - the result of extensive user interface testing with customers and input from accountants. Sage has also invested significantly in the modernization of several existing accounting and business management solutions including Sage 100 and Sage 300.

Partnerships

On Monday, Sage announced it is reinventing its relationship with independent software vendors to make it easier and faster for them to help Small & Medium Businesses around the world succeed. The program will open Sage partners' routes to market, kickstart a new era of collaboration and re-emphasize the channel's vital role -- for the next decade.