About Sage Financial Management Solutions

Sage Software supports the needs, dreams, and challenges of small and mid-sized 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 mid-sized 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 $65652.2 million.

Sage Software’s ERP financial management suite is targeted toward small companies with 25 or fewer employees, and mid-sized companies with up to 500 or more employees. Revenues of these companies are typically from $5 million to $100 million annually. In serving these companies, Sage Software encompasses a divisions and brands focus that’s organized by customer concentration in business management, industry & specialized solutions, payment solutions, and healthcare. 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 Key Strengths

• Sage Software offers leading business management products and services that give 1.7 million small and mid-sized customers in North America the insight for success throughout the life of their business.
• Its parent company, The Sage Group plc, supports three million customers worldwide and has revenue of $815 million.
• For more than 25 years, Sage Software has delivered easy-to-use, scalable and customizable applications through its portfolio of leading brands, including Abra, ACT!, CPASoftware, FAS, MAS 90, Sage MIP Fund Accounting, Sage Fundraising, Peachtree and SalesLogix, among many others.
• The quality of Sage products and services is widely recognized and recommended by its customers, as well as by over 40,000 accountants in practice. Sage’s marketing strategy is based on nurturing the entrepreneurship, innovation and team spirit of its people, allowing it to leverage the power of local expertise in developing solutions that work—when and where needed.