Summit 2009

I will be in Atlanta week of Nov 9th attending Summit - Sage annual customer event. I am looking forward to catching up with lot of our customers; business partners and colleagues from different businesses. There are plenty of good sessions planned and opportunities to have dialog around what is happening in the MAS 90/200; MAS 500 and Accpac world. Ping me if you are attending Summit. I would love to catch up.

Starting a business

Peachtree team posted a video discussing the merit of having a good accounting system on your side to help with your startup business. Sage is your business partner who want to see you succeed and grow your business. 

Check it out.

Sage MAS Community

Visit the new MAS community site which is being launched.

It will feature product specific forums; blogs; discussion board; tips and tricks; etc. 

Also, my colleagues and I will use the community site to blog all things that matters MAS. Here is my blog on the MAS site. Some day – I will attempt to link and aggregate posts from both sites.

I am excited about the community forum and look forward to seeing a vibrant community growing. Check it out (http://community.sagemas.com)

Summit 2008

From Nov 16th to Nov 20th, I will be in Denver attending our annual customer conference – Sage Summit.  

I am double excited to attend Summit this time. One – another opportunity to connect with customers and partners that use our product. Second – this is the first time I will be back in Colorado since my family and I relocated to California. I have lot of friends in the city and I look forward to meeting several of them.

Denver – here I come.

Peachtree 2009

Earlier we released Peachtree 2009. This release has some great features - including improvement in the Payroll, Cash Management and Reporting space.

Also, check out Quantum, which include smart posting effort and others enhancements boosting tremendous performance and scalability gains. This will be a great win in the marketplace for our Peachtree/Quantum customers.

Kudos to the Peachtree organization for delivering yet another great release in the marketplace. Keep up the great effort Dena, Katie, Jason, Mandy, Rachel, Jeff, Doug, Rick, Eric, Natalie, Andrea and everyone in the Peachtree organization.

Incredible footprint of the product portfolio – addressing the need of an entrepreneur to an established enterprise; from Peachtree, Quantum, MAS 90/200 to MAS 500 – all seeing new version out in the market place with tons of customer value enhancements, technology uplift, new modules, improved performance and scalability. Way to go team!!!

 

MAS 90 4.3 now available too

Now MAS 90 organization delivers next release of MAS 90/200 to manufacturing earlier this week. This release has several customer value features; usability enhancements; business insights improvement; improved integration; and others. It has lot of appeal and value to the customers and prospects.

One of the theme for this release is encouraging our customers to go green, save time, money and the environment by utilizing paperless office and direct deposit functionality. Now save paper, toner and postage costs, conserve office space used for storage, and reduce the time and energy spend in finding archived documents, as well as printing and mailing communications. A relevant theme for the world we live in today helping make world a better place – one small step at a time.

Like an African proverb “It takes a village to raise a child” – hearty congratulations to Eliott, Scot, John, Scott, Becky, Jim, Steve, Doris, Linda, Anna, Maria, Debi, Kevin, Karen, Erika, Roberta and everyone in the organization involved in delivering another quality product to the marketplace!

What a prolific year for the MAS organization!!! Keep it up team.

 

MAS 500 7.2 now available

Earlier this week MAS 500 7.2 was released to manufacturing and should be getting generally available to the market. MAS 500 continues to do great in the market place. It is increasingly getting implemented in larger setting than ever before.

This release has several performance/scalability improvements beside two new modules introducing Business Insights Dashboard and Data Import Manager. This release also include other features, enhancements and usability improvements.

MAS 500 team worked hard to deliver this release while keeping up with the Quality goals. I am proud of their accomplishment. You know how to establish and deliver on the goals. Keep it up – Linda, Darrick, Praveen, Ruedi, Wei, John, Doris, Zetulio, Randall and everyone in the MAS 500 organization who worked hard everyday to make it happen.

 

Sage recognition in the SMB space

Sometime back, I read Warren Buffett suggesting “franchise value is like having moat around the castle of a business”…durability of channel has profound impact on the business.

Anyway, recently CRN announced its 2008 Channel Champion Award in the category of SMB Software Suites.  This is a measure of channel perception of its software publisher products and services.  It is survey based market study in the industry where award is based upon the responses from the channel partners and their overall level of satisfaction across various categories.  

Check out the Sage Software press release here. Sage continues its recognition in the SMB space.

 

Insights 2008

I will be at Insights 2008 next week. I look forward to meeting several MAS business partners and our Sage fellow colleagues. Time flies. This will be my second Insights conference and I am looking forward to meeting friends, having dialogue, and sharing lot of exciting things happening in our organization.

See you soon!

 

Sage MAS 500 Receives 5-Star Rating

Earlier this month Sage MAS 500 grabbed another 5-Star Rating in this year’s review of High-End Accounting Systems by The CPA Technology Advisor. The product received nearly perfect marks in all 6 review categories – Module/Scalability; Usability/User Experience & Security; Extensibility; Integration/Customization; Reporting and Support/Training & Help.

Check it out here.

Direxions 2007

Earlier last week I was at Direxions, hosting ProvideX developer conference. This year we launched ProvideX supporting Eclipse as an IDE. ProvideX is a platform independent infrastructure that evolved out of Business Basic world. It is a complete development environment to build business applications. 

It was great meeting a committed developer and partner community at the conference. Thank you for attending and providing your candid feedback.

This year we had two keynotes. Himanshu Palsule opened the conference and delivered keynote on customer connected innovation. Himanshu’s presentation was phenomional and extremely well recieved. It was insightful to hear the value of customer experience and associated innovation. I delivered another keynote on enterprise software trends and challenges. As time permits, I hope to cover some of it here at this forum.

Happy application developing in ProvideX, and thank you for your continued support.

Peachtree 2008

Earlier this week we announced the availability of Peachtree 2008 release. This is a new addition to my responsibility at Sage Software beside MAS products. Peachtree product development team in Atlanta is amazing and true to the tradition just released another great, simple to use product. You can learn more about the Peachtree product line here. It is an easy to use accounting product that provide deeper functionality and great customer experience to entry level businesses. It comes in four packages - basic, standard, advanced and premium.

Kudos to the team on another timely and quality release out of the door.

What’s cooking

Some screen shots from MAS 90 – BIE (Business Insights Explorer) demo that we showed at Insights.

Taking the data view ->  

and generate on the fly, configurable charts based on various filters, dimensions and more.

  

Stay tuned…

Insights 2007

May 14 to 17th, I will be at Insights 2007 – our annual partner conference. I would love to meet you if you are around.

This event is always a special event. But this year it is more special due to the recent reorganization at Sage Software. Bringing old walls down between small business and mid-business; front office and back office products should be a welcome move by customers and partners. This will serve our customers well and it should enable partners to foster an healthier eco-system.

I look forward to catching up with several of you at Insights.

XP is back

Dell today announced it will provide an option to chose XP when ordering computer from them. Here is the annoucnement on MSNBC.

Hopefully, this announcement will serve our customers well and give them the choice to decide what they want based on what serves them well.

MAS 90 Release 4.2

On March 9th, we released version 4.2 of MAS 90 - a leading mid market accounting solution - to distribution.

Here are the key theme of the release beside being the next generation, better and easier product to be launched in the market place.

Gain instant visibility across your business

Increase efficiency with easy personalization

Turn data into actionable knowledge

Achieve higher productivity

Sage MAS 90 and MAS 200 works the way you do

Manage your customer relationships the way you want to

Congratulations to everyone across our various organizations who worked on this release. Thank you for your dedication and hard work towards getting this release out of the door.