SAGE PRODUCT PORTFOLIO

Sage was established in 1981 when very few small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs) were using software to help run their businesses.  Sage pretty much created the market for SME accounting and payroll software; their little green box became the recognised standard for the small business looking to computerise.  From their origins in Newcastle Sage PLC is now a global organisation with over 6,000 employees worldwide and a member of the FTSE 100.

Sage has continually extended its product range to encompass a wide range of business solutions for all sizes of business, offering software solutions from start ups to large enterprises, so as your business expands you have a natural upgrade path.  With readily available data migration and developers tools Sage products can talk to most windows based applications allowing information to be passed to and from these programs.  In the case of Line 100 these products are specifically designed to be tailored to meet the precise requirements of your business.

THE SMALL BUSINESS RANGE

Sage 50 Accounts 2008 has all the standard features you need to help you manage all your customers and suppliers professionally and ensure an efficient cash flow for your business.  The analysis and reporting tools ensure that all your critical business decisions are fully analysed and informed.

Accredited by HM Revenue & Customs (HMRC), Sage 50 Payroll is the UK 's market-leading payroll software for small to medium-sized businesses.

Sage Job Costing is designed to help you analyse and control the costs of your jobs and services.  It provides true business control by helping you understand the precise cost breakdown of a job.  By helping you to manage jobs more effectively, it saves you valuable time and ensures that you retain control over your costs.

Flexibility is a crucial feature of Sage Job Costing, in recognition of the fact that every business has different requirements for cost control and analysis.  You can choose how costs and revenues are broken down, in as much detail as you want, making it easier to measure and control all your projects, providing flexible-billing features to help you calculate how much you can bill each customer.

Sage Job Costing will help you to be efficient and accurate. Its ability to fully integrate with Sage Line 50 and Sage Payroll will ensure consistency and accuracy across your business.

Sage Financial Forecasting and Sage Winforecast Professional Consolidation helps you to create accurate financial forecasts to help you plan for the future.  It handles double entry, lets you investigate “What If?“ scenarios and performs complicated calculations such as those involved in factoring and provisions.  Reports such as Profit and Loss, Cash Flow, Balance Sheet and Funds Flow are supplied as standard, and can be viewed at any time.

Sage 50 ACT! 2008

In today’s competitive business arena, it’s essential that every part of your business is as effective as it can be. Contact and Customer management embraces the very core of your business – your customers and how you deal with them
Sage ACT! Professional is a long established, best-selling, global contact management solution for businesses of all types.
Designed specifically to help establish, manage and build business relationships, Sage ACT! Professional allows you to find new prospects effectively and convert more of these into customers.  It has all the features you need to get your sales, marketing and customer service operations in order. It’s easy to set up and use, organising you, your contacts and your business.

Crucially, it also helps you to retain these customers, and therefore generate better margins for your business.

THE MID-RANGE SOLUTIONS

Sage offers a choice of mid-range accounts and trading solutions for businesses that have outgrown their existing systems. Either Sage Line 100 or Sage MMS may be suitable for your business.

SAGE MMS is Sage's latest mid-range business solution, built on the .NET platform. It is a powerful accounts and trading solution with unrivalled usability and customisation capability. Straightforward to implement and easy to learn, Sage MMS offers the ideal solution 'out of the box' to many companies with complex business processes. Sage MMS is also an ideal upgrade path for many Line 50 users who are experiencing rapid growth.

SAGE LINE 100 is an established mid-range business solution that offers an extensive range of Sage modules and third-party applications for businesses with large numbers of transactions, multiple concurrent users and a requirement for customisation and integration with industry-specific software.

Sage Line 100 is an established mid-range business solution offering an extensive range of Sage modules and third-party applications.   Its origins go back well over a decade and it has been developed and modernised continuously.  AMAS has been a Line 100 developer since it was first bought by Sage.  Originally Skymaster it became Sage Sovereign in its DOS form and later Sage Line 100 in its windows form.

Sage 200 (Mid Market Solution) is Sage’s latest mid-range business solution, built on the .NET platform.  Sage 200 version 5.1 is the latest version of the software featuring a SQL database engine.  It is a powerful accounts and trading solution that focuses on usability with customisation capability.