Sage Software supports the needs, dreams, and challenges of small and midsized businesses (SMB) by offering leading business management products and services. For over 30 years, Sage Software has delivered easy-to-use, scalable, and customizable software for accounting, customer relationship management, human resources, merchant services, time tracking, and the specialized needs of the construction, distribution, healthcare, manufacturing, nonprofit, and real estate industries.

Today, more than 2.8 million North American small and midsized businesses currently rely on Sage Software applications. The parent company of Sage Software, The Sage Group, plc. (London: SGE.L), reaches a global client base that numbers 5.4 million SMB customers worldwide. It serves these businesses through more than 13,000 employees in operations in North America, the UK, France, Germany, Portugal, Spain, Switzerland, South Africa, Australia, and Southeast Asia. By the end of fiscal year 2006, the North American revenue of Sage Software was $652.2 million.

Sage Software’s ERP solution suite is targeted toward small companies with 25 or fewer employees, and midsized companies with up to 500 or more employees. Revenues of these companies are typically from $5 million to $100 million annually.

Sage Software products are licensed, sold, and supported by an extensive network of value-added resellers (VARs) who must pass a stringent review process to be a part of this specialized distribution channel. Mass distribution products ACT! by Sage, Peachtree by Sage, and Simply Accounting by Sage are sold directly to the consumers or through retailers. Sage Software products are also used or recommended by 40,000 accounting and bookkeeping firms nationwide.

Sage Software Key Strengths

• For more than 30 years, Sage Software has delivered easy-to-use, scalable, and customizable software for accounting, customer relationship management, human resources, merchant services, time tracking, as well as for the specialized needs of the construction, distribution, healthcare, manufacturing, nonprofit, and real estate industries.
• A perennial honoree in both Accounting Today’s “Top 100 Products” and Software Magazine’s annual Software 500 listings, Sage Software also has garnered a variety of other industry awards, recognitions, and reviews.
• Sage Software’s flagship ERP applications have won a 2007 ‘Readers’ Choice’ Award for being the top vote-getters in the “Client-Side Accounting Systems/Accounting for Larger Entities” category, beating Microsoft and its Dynamics GP/AX/NAV portfolio for the honor. It’s the second straight year these two products have taken this Award in this category.
• Sage Software is joining the Builders Alliance for Software Efficiency (BASE), comprised of the nation’s most powerful and successful software companies that work with thousands of home builders–from pre-construction through post-construction–managing more than 25 percent of the nation’s housing starts.
• Working in unison across all its products and markets, Sage Software’s employees, business partners, and advisors are tied by a common bond: being connected with its growing base of customers to help them to succeed.