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At the same time, 39&#037; of best-in-class companies identify a lack of integration between electronic payments and accounting systems as a barrier to increased electronic payments.<\/p> <p>Last month, Sage introduced Sage Exchange, a new secure, Payment Application Data Security Standard (PA-DSS) certified payment platform that will allow businesses and organizations to accept all forms and methods of payment, with seamless data integration to a wide range of Sage business management software products and third-party business solutions. Seamless integration between payment applications and back-office software can improve an organization&#039;s cash flow and forecasting, while eliminating manual data entry and the risk of errors.<\/p> <p>&quot;Integrating electronic payment networks with back office ERP systems is a challenge faced by all businesses,&quot; added Hammermaster. &quot;Sage Exchange overcomes this challenge by tightly integrating Sage&#039;s accounting and ERP solutions, on both the AR and AP sides, with the most widely used electronic payment networks, including credit and debit cards, electronic check, ACH, and even private label networks. While electronic payments data integration is the foundation, exponential value will be gained through a suite of connected services focused on streamlining the financial supply chain. Sage Exchange is set to deliver on that value proposition.&quot;<\/p> <p>Aberdeen&#039;s payments study was co-underwritten by Sage Payment Solutions and Syncada. A joint venture between Visa and U.S. Bank, Syncada provides a business-to-business network for financial institutions to enable their clients to increase control over their financial supply chains.<\/p><\/span><\/div><table id='zwNextPrev' width='100%'><tr><td style='text-align: left;' align='left'>&lt;&lt; Previous Article&nbsp;|&nbsp;<a href='http://www.itbusiness.ca/it/client/en/cdn/News.asp?id=57918&PageMem=1' onclick='zTrkClick(this, &#039;8a7caa111b1f2d0a011b60f51eaf099d&#039;,&#039;8a7c9fef29d39a7c0129f6b8a6cd7b0e&#039;,&#039;402881e71da6b5e8011da6b634a70028&#039;,&#039;http&#037;3A&#037;2F&#037;2Fwww.itbusiness.ca&#037;2Fit&#037;2Fclient&#037;2Fen&#037;2Fcdn&#037;2FNews.asp&#037;3Fid&#037;3D57918&#037;26PageMem&#037;3D1&#039;);zwShowDetails(\"8a7c9fef29d39a7c0129f6b8a6cd7b0e\",\"8a7caa111b1f2d0a011b60f51eaf099d\");zift_pc--;return false;'>Next Article<\/a> &gt;&gt;<\/td><td style='text-align: right;' align='right'><a style='cursor:pointer' onclick='zwShowTitles(\"8a7caa111b1f2d0a011b60f51eaf099d\");zift_pc--;return false;'>Return to List<\/a><\/td><\/tr><\/table><\/div>"},"v8a7c9fef29d39a7c0129f6b8a6cd7b0e":{"hiddenOpening":"<div id='zw_details_8a7c9fef29d39a7c0129f6b8a6cd7b0e' style='display:none'>","hiddenClosing":"<\/div>","visibleOpening":"<div id='zw_details_8a7c9fef29d39a7c0129f6b8a6cd7b0e'>","visibleClosing":"<\/div>","contents":"<div style='padding-top:3px;' align='left' id='full_1'><table id='zwNextPrev' width='100%'><tr><td style='text-align: left;' align='left'>&lt;&lt; <a href='http://www.sagenorthamerica.com/company/newsroom/press_releases/details?CID=1D760715-1B6F-0001-2554-17BB19E012A7&CardId=529480&RowIndex=2&Product=*&Year=*' onclick='zTrkClick(this, &#039;8a7caa111b1f2d0a011b60f51eaf099d&#039;,&#039;8a7c9fef28ea589201296bdb6e3c6dca&#039;,&#039;402881e71da6b5e8011da6b634a70028&#039;,&#039;http&#037;3A&#037;2F&#037;2Fwww.sagenorthamerica.com&#037;2Fcompany&#037;2Fnewsroom&#037;2Fpress_releases&#037;2Fdetails&#037;3FCID&#037;3D1D760715-1B6F-0001-2554-17BB19E012A7&#037;26CardId&#037;3D529480&#037;26RowIndex&#037;3D2&#037;26Product&#037;3D&#042;&#037;26Year&#037;3D&#042;&#039;);zwShowDetails(\"8a7c9fef28ea589201296bdb6e3c6dca\",\"8a7caa111b1f2d0a011b60f51eaf099d\");zift_pc--;return false;'>Previous Article<\/a>&nbsp;|&nbsp;<a href='http://www.destinationcrm.com/Articles/CRM-News/Daily-News/Sage-Sends-SalesLogix-to-the-Cloud-67264.aspx' onclick='zTrkClick(this, &#039;8a7caa111b1f2d0a011b60f51eaf099d&#039;,&#039;8a7c9fef28ea589201296bbbf8ed6a4b&#039;,&#039;402881e71da6b5e8011da6b634a70028&#039;,&#039;http&#037;3A&#037;2F&#037;2Fwww.destinationcrm.com&#037;2FArticles&#037;2FCRM-News&#037;2FDaily-News&#037;2FSage-Sends-SalesLogix-to-the-Cloud-67264.aspx&#039;);zwShowDetails(\"8a7c9fef28ea589201296bbbf8ed6a4b\",\"8a7caa111b1f2d0a011b60f51eaf099d\");zift_pc--;return false;'>Next Article<\/a> &gt;&gt;<\/td><td style='text-align: right;' align='right'><a style='cursor:pointer' onclick='zwShowTitles(\"8a7caa111b1f2d0a011b60f51eaf099d\");zift_pc--;return false;'>Return to List<\/a><\/td><\/tr><\/table><div id='zwInlineTitle' style='text-align:left;height:auto'><a href='http://www.itbusiness.ca/it/client/en/cdn/News.asp?id=57918&amp;PageMem=1' onclick='zTrkClick(this, &#039;8a7caa111b1f2d0a011b60f51eaf099d&#039;,&#039;8a7c9fef29d39a7c0129f6b8a6cd7b0e&#039;,&#039;402881e71da6b5e8011da6b634a70028&#039;,&#039;http&#037;3A&#037;2F&#037;2Fwww.itbusiness.ca&#037;2Fit&#037;2Fclient&#037;2Fen&#037;2Fcdn&#037;2FNews.asp&#037;3Fid&#037;3D57918&#037;26PageMem&#037;3D1&#039;);' target='_blank' >Sage&#039;s channel program an evolving work in progress<\/a><span class='zwClear'><\/span><\/div><div class='zwContentExtra' id='extra_1'><\/div><div class='zwContentText'><span class='zwInline'><p>At its annual <a href=\"http://www.sageinsightsconference.com\" target=\"_blank\">Insights conference<\/a> held in Denver last month, business management software vendor, <a href=\"http://www.Sage.com\" target=\"_blank\">Sage<\/a>, announced new partner workshops and resources, as well as enhancements to its existing channel initiatives to help make partners more profitable.<\/p><p>This year&#039;s Insights conference marked the last partner-specific event to be hosted by Sage, because starting next year, the vendor will put on a combined partner and customer conference event, known as Sage Summit. <\/p><p>Tom Miller, vice-president of channel management for Sage North America, has been the company&#039;s channel chief for just over a year now. Prior to Sage, Miller worked at Microsoft for eight years. Reflecting back over year one, Miller said he&#039;s &quot;pleased&quot; with the progress the company&#039;s made with its channel thus far. <\/p><p>&quot;I&#039;m pleased with the progress we&#039;ve made but I think we still have a lot of work to do.&quot; Miller said. &quot;We need to make sure we have the right sets of programs for our partners and help them find new customers and opportunities. We also have to get communications out to our partners and provide training so we&#039;re all partner-ready. I&#039;m confident that we can get there, but it&#039;s an evolving work in progress.&quot; <\/p><p>Among some of the new partner offerings are four workshops around sales, consulting, customer experience and business strategy. <\/p><p>Miller said when he joined Sage last summer and had a look at the existing programs, one of the improvements he wanted to make was increasing the number of partners participating in them. <\/p><p>&quot;We found that some of these programs were too expensive from a time and out-of-pocket standpoint,&quot; Miller explained. &quot;Partners also wanted a more condensed version that was offered closer to home.&quot; <\/p><p>To give partners more of what they wanted, Miller said Sage introduced its sales, consulting and customer experience workshops. The sales workshop is a free, one-day intensive selling workshop to help partners improve on their sales performance. 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Sage SalesLogix Cloud, which was introduced to partners last year, will be available to customers in June.<\/p><p>To provide context for Sage&#039;s &quot;cloudy&quot; announcement, <em><span style=\"font-style: normal;\">Bruce Guptill,<\/span> s<\/em>enior vice president and head of research at analysis firm Saugatuck Technology, shared survey results indicating that an average of 20 percent of firms today use such cloud-based solutions for at least one core business system. The figure, Guptill predicted, will double by year-end 2012. <br/> <br/> &quot;A couple of years ago, if you wanted to be good at SaaS, you had to be good at the infrastructural level -- and hats off to them,&quot; said Larry Ritter, senior vice president and general manager of Sage CRM Applications. &quot;We have always been at the applications.&quot;<\/p><p>Along with Joe Bergera, executive vice president and global general manager for Sage CRM Solutions, Ritter explained the cloud solution in depth during a press and analyst session here. <\/p>    <p>Sage took an incremental approach with the cloud offering. Bergera said the solution was made available to select &quot;handheld customers&quot; in December. Twelve customers have been signed on with the Amazon subscription-based solution to-date. Hundreds more are using it through a SalesLogix trial. Prior to the cloud solution Sage was limited in offering trials to customers.<\/p><p>&quot;We are actually getting a lot of traction just by having the solution,&quot; offered Allen Duet, senior product manager for Sage CRM. Some customers, in fact, have signed on with Sage on-premise CRM just for knowing that the vendor has a cloud offering on tap that it could migrate to in the future. <\/p><p>Sage is calling this June release Phase 1 of SalesLogix Cloud. The solution will be expanded to international partners and customers later this year. Also a new version of SalesLogix on-premises will be released in the next 6 weeks. SalesLogix Cloud is offered to customers in two ways. Customers can provide named users who will access the solution, or companies can pay for five &quot;concurrent users&quot; and rotate the licenses throughout the organization on an as-need basis. <br/> <br/> Sage deals primarily through a partner channel, which may be an explanation of the year-long ramp-up of the cloud solution. &quot;Some partners really stepped up to the plate,&quot; Ritter reported. &quot;The ones attacking this opportunity are seeing overall pipeline expand.&quot; He noted, however, that the value proposition for partners is different. &quot;You aren&#039;t going to make the same kind of money that you used to,&quot; he said. <br/> <br/> In terms of Act!, Bergera said Sage is focusing on the connected services to bring users online. The Sage e-Marketing application, for example, offers customers the reach of the Web, but keeps the core contact management system where many users want it -- on the desktop. Ritter speculated that Sage might some day want to do something similar with Act! and the cloud, but the price point does not make sense right now. <br/> <br/> Ritter hinted at a handful of connected services to come later this summer. One of particular interest for CRM users will be an integrated Web service with Hoover&#039;s.<\/p><p>Beagle Research Principal Denis Pombriant notes that the SalesLogix cloud solution may be on the periphery of being called a software-as-a-service application. Pombriant wagers that Sage is more fittingly categorized as an application service provider (ASP) since Amazon is the company doing the hosting. <\/p><p>Ritter said that the company is ultimately working down the path toward becoming a hybrid service provider where companies use both installed Sage products and Web services. After all, Sage&#039;s definition of cloud, as iterated by Himanshu Palsule, Executive Vice President of Product Strategy and Marketing of <em>Sage<\/em> Business Solutions at Tuesday&#039;s keynote, means &quot;taking the richness of on-premise applications and connecting it to the reach of Web services.&quot; <\/p><p>With Act! reaching out to the Web for extensions, and with SalesLogix finding its place in the cloud, executives hinted that a Sage application store in the cloud may be a big move to come. <\/p><\/span><\/div><table id='zwNextPrev' width='100%'><tr><td style='text-align: left;' align='left'>&lt;&lt; <a href='http://www.itbusiness.ca/it/client/en/cdn/News.asp?id=57918&PageMem=1' onclick='zTrkClick(this, &#039;8a7caa111b1f2d0a011b60f51eaf099d&#039;,&#039;8a7c9fef29d39a7c0129f6b8a6cd7b0e&#039;,&#039;402881e71da6b5e8011da6b634a70028&#039;,&#039;http&#037;3A&#037;2F&#037;2Fwww.itbusiness.ca&#037;2Fit&#037;2Fclient&#037;2Fen&#037;2Fcdn&#037;2FNews.asp&#037;3Fid&#037;3D57918&#037;26PageMem&#037;3D1&#039;);zwShowDetails(\"8a7c9fef29d39a7c0129f6b8a6cd7b0e\",\"8a7caa111b1f2d0a011b60f51eaf099d\");zift_pc--;return false;'>Previous Article<\/a>&nbsp;|&nbsp;<a href='http://www.sagenorthamerica.com/company/newsroom/press_releases/details?CID=1D75FF5D-93C1-0001-4EC7-19A41AA09900&CardId=505039&RowIndex=11&Product=*&Year=*' onclick='zTrkClick(this, &#039;8a7caa111b1f2d0a011b60f51eaf099d&#039;,&#039;8a7c9fef28ea589201296be4d58b6fc4&#039;,&#039;402881e71da6b5e8011da6b634a70028&#039;,&#039;http&#037;3A&#037;2F&#037;2Fwww.sagenorthamerica.com&#037;2Fcompany&#037;2Fnewsroom&#037;2Fpress_releases&#037;2Fdetails&#037;3FCID&#037;3D1D75FF5D-93C1-0001-4EC7-19A41AA09900&#037;26CardId&#037;3D505039&#037;26RowIndex&#037;3D11&#037;26Product&#037;3D&#042;&#037;26Year&#037;3D&#042;&#039;);zwShowDetails(\"8a7c9fef28ea589201296be4d58b6fc4\",\"8a7caa111b1f2d0a011b60f51eaf099d\");zift_pc--;return false;'>Next Article<\/a> &gt;&gt;<\/td><td style='text-align: right;' align='right'><a style='cursor:pointer' onclick='zwShowTitles(\"8a7caa111b1f2d0a011b60f51eaf099d\");zift_pc--;return false;'>Return to List<\/a><\/td><\/tr><\/table><\/div>"},"v8a7c9fef28ea589201296be4d58b6fc4":{"hiddenOpening":"<div id='zw_details_8a7c9fef28ea589201296be4d58b6fc4' style='display:none'>","hiddenClosing":"<\/div>","visibleOpening":"<div id='zw_details_8a7c9fef28ea589201296be4d58b6fc4'>","visibleClosing":"<\/div>","contents":"<div style='padding-top:3px;' align='left' id='full_3'><table id='zwNextPrev' width='100%'><tr><td style='text-align: left;' align='left'>&lt;&lt; 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experience in managing through recent economic conditions, as well as business owners&#039; opinions on the government-sponsored job stimulus programs. Sage conducted the survey this spring, shortly after the Obama Administration announced a series of proposals aimed specifically at small and midsized business owners.<\/p> <p>Respondents weighed in on the small business proposals, on topics such as capital expenditure deductions, new employee tax credits and refinancing existing debt, among others. While there was support for some of the proposals from individual respondents and 61&#037; of those surveyed found at least one of the proposals helpful, there was no universal endorsement, by a majority of participants, for any one single proposal.<\/p> <p>The proposal that was considered to be most helpful-to extend through 2010 the provision that accelerates the rate at which businesses can deduct the cost of capital expenditures-was found helpful by only 37 percent of respondents. Other proposals found most helpful were the payroll tax reimbursement (33 percent); elimination of the capital gains tax for investments (33 percent); tax credit for new hires (31 percent); and the immediate expense of qualified investment (30 percent). In general, the proposals related to SBA (Small Business Administration) loans were seen as less helpful than the other proposals.<\/p> <p>Small businesses represent a strong voice in the American economic conversation. According to the most recent figures by the Small Business Administration, there are 27.2 million small businesses in the United States which are responsible for jobs of more than half of the population, including both their owners and employees.<\/p> <p>&quot;Our survey results echo what has already been widely reported, but also indicate that small business owners are incredibly passionate and will be a strong voice at the polls come November elections,&quot; said Connie Certusi, general manager, small business accounting solutions, Sage North America. &quot;Sage is listening to its customers and in response we are providing an open forum for Congressional delegates, public officials and small businesses to come together to discuss issues affecting American small businesses through our SageSpark.com Small Business Forum.&quot;<\/p> <p>Earlier this week, Sage launched the Small Business Forum on SageSpark.com as a place where business owners can connect and discuss current legislation and other issues affecting their business; share tips and advice; and access helpful resources from Sage. Today, Sage is extending the invitation to Congressional delegates to participate in the online forum and engage directly with small business owners to discuss the issues they face and share ideas for solutions to those issues.<\/p> <p><strong>About Sage North America<\/strong><br/> Sage North America is part of The Sage Group plc, a leading global supplier of business management software and services. Sage North America employs 4,000 people and supports 3.1 million small and midsized business customers. The Sage Group plc, formed in 1981, was floated on the London Stock Exchange in 1989 and now employs 13,100 people and supports 6.2 million customers worldwide. 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