Sage Live Moves to Salesforce Lightning as Part of Strategic Partnership With Salesforce

CHICAGO, IL--(Marketwired - Jul 25, 2016) - Sage, a market leader in cloud accounting software, today announced at Sage Summit 2016, the world's largest gathering of entrepreneurs and business builders, the next stage of Sage's strategic partnership with Salesforce. New partnerships with TomTom Telematics and U.S. Bank were also announced.

In front of an audience of nearly 15,000, Sage CEO Stephen Kelly announced that Sage is working hand-in-hand with Salesforce to deliver their award-winning, real-time cloud accounting solution, Sage Live, on the new Salesforce Lightning.

The Salesforce Lightning Experience will bring a reimagined consumer-like experience that is modern, efficient and smart to Sage Live. Relevant information is surfaced for each screen, streamlining processes and making workflows more intuitive. At Sage Summit this week, visitors will be able to experience a demo of Sage Live working on Lightning.

Sage and Salesforce initially launched their global partnership on 12th May 2015. As the partnership grows in strength this year Sage is proud to announce that they won the Salesforce ISV Innovation Award for 2016.

"I'm thrilled to see Sage Live reinvent accounting for SMBs with the power and speed of Salesforce Lightning," said Adam Seligman EVP and GM of Salesforce App Cloud. "Now SMBs can move faster than ever before to run their business on the world's #1 enterprise cloud platform."

As well as setting out his vision to make Sage Live the most innovative cloud accounting platform on the market, Stephen Kelly announced plans to bring real-time accounting to millions of businesses across Europe. Later this year, Sage Live will become available to businesses in France, Germany and Spain.

Sage also demonstrated how its partnership with TomTom Telematics, one of the world's leading telematics solution providers, will connect Sage Live with the Internet of Things. In an interactive live demo, Sage's EVP of Product Marketing, Jennifer Warawa, showed how Sage Live works with connected car technology, allowing businesses with fleets of vehicles to record mileage and automate expensing and invoicing. Because it's real-time, and built on the Salesforce platform, customers will be able to automatically view fleet data in Sage Live.