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Sage World 2010 – Shropshire

09/09/2010 By

Congratulations to Sage for hosting a great new event on the 8th and 9th of September at The International Centre, Telford for UK small businesses.

The event was professionally managed and presented with some excellent content added through a number of keynote sessions and business seminars from entrepreneurs and industry experts.

Sage provided a number of their in-house ‘Sage Experts’ to demo their latest products and to answer any questions attendees had on the wide portfolio of software products they now build. The sessions were presented in a relaxed, pressure free environment, adding to the overall ambience o the event.

The areas which interested me were the improvements to Act in the 2011 version, a further delay in the release of Sage 100 (the MySQL version of Sage 50) and what a good product SageCRM is for businesses that require something more sophisticated than ACT.  SageCRM is an internet based CRM solution and comes as standard within Sage 200, but can also be purchased or rented as a standalone application.

It was interesting to listen to Will King’s experiences in setting up ‘King of Shaves’ and the problems he’s faced in making ‘King of Shaves’ a worldwide brand. A marketplace that’s dominated by major worldwide players with a comprehensive range of products would probably not be most people’s idea of setting up a new business.  Will admitted some naivety at the outset, but nevertheless identified a niche with his first product, Shaving Oil; when this was adopted by a major high street retailer, the rest became history.

Marketing is a fascinating subject that touches everybody either consciously or sub-consciously.  In delivering his session, Geoff Ramm humorously highlighted the impact both the sub-conscious and in-your-face styles of marketing can have and how the best are indelibly locked in your sub-conscious.

Day 2 also had some excellent speakers, including Karren Brady, but alas, we couldn’t attend.

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SAP® Business One & Sage 200 – Events

18/11/2009 By

Business briefing sessions for Directors and Senior Managers

Bolton based business support company Gerron and their partner Accware, the accountancy and IT firm are running two business briefing sessions covering Sage 200 and SAP® Business One. The sessions will be held on the 3rd and the 9th of December, starting 5.30 p.m. and ending 8.00 p.m. at Bolton School in Bolton.  The briefings are targeted at board level executive and senior managers who are aware of potential weaknesses in existing systems now or in the near future and would like a better understanding of how these packages can help improve overall control and management reporting within the business.

These events will also provide you with an opportunity to gain a clearer understanding of the benefits properly implemented business software can bring to small and growing businesses and will allow attendees to take a closer look at the latest developments and road maps of these two leading mid range business software applications.

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For more information about this press release please call Cathryn Maher at Gerron Ltd on 01204 362324 or email her on cathryn.maher@gerron.co.uk.

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Sage 200

23/10/2009 By

Today I was invited to an overview of Sage 200 by Ian Mowbray of Sage, hosted by Datel at their Warrington offices.  Whilst I have all the technical information I need about the product c/o Sage, I had never seen it in action.  In simplistic terms, Sage 200 is Sage 50’s big brother.  The product adopts a similar look and feel to Sage 50 and includes, as far as I could see, all the latest features added to Sage 50 in its 2010 guise.  Sage 200 is aimed at growing SME’s who demand that little bit more from their business software and delivers improved performance and scalability simply because it uses Microsoft’s SQL Server as its RDBMS.  Once you start looking closer at the software, there are clearly many improvements over Sage 50 and additional modular features can be added catering for a wide range of business operations including Manufacturing, Wholesale and Retail, Construction etc.   

Strangely though, CRM is provided as a separate web-based application, although it is tightly integrated (probably using a web service) with the main application. This means that some users would have to log into two separate applications to get a full view of the business.

The migration path from Sage 50 to 200 will be smooth for those familiar with V12 onwards and data can easily be migrated to minimise implementation costs and aid historical reporting.

A second break-out session covered Management Reporting.  Well we’ve all been there and built Excel Spreadsheets to summarise complex data into meaningful management information and perhaps written VB macros to get the information at the click of a button etc. etc.. Well, no more.  I saw a tool that extracted Sage 200, 500, and 1000 data into an OLAP cube and ran virtually instantaneously every report you need to effectively manage your business.  The product comes as standard with hundreds of reports and is available on an annual subscription….the name, well you’ll have to contact me if you’re interested!

Rather than to discuss the key features here, I have added an Introduction to Sage 200 Brochure to the resources page of this web site for readers to review at their leisure.

Anybody who wishes to see the product at first hand will have the opportunity to do so at a relaxed informative event planned for the 18th November 2009 in Bolton – details to be posted shortly.

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Accware and Datel Limited

27/08/2009 By

Accware are pleased to announce a new partnership with Datel Limited adding particularly the Sage 200 product to the list of Business and Accounting applications we now supply.

Datel is Sage’s largest Business Partner in the UK and is acclaimed as its leading systems integration specialist.  Headquartered in Warrington, Datel also has offices in Leeds, Esher and the Netherlands employing a loyal team of over 140 highly-skilled people who look after its growing base of over 800 customers worldwide.

They specialise in Sage 200, Sage Line 500 and Sage 1000, Sage CRM and SalesLogix as well as their own in-house products which they have developed to integrate with, and sit alongside, Sage solutions.  Known as Datel FUSION, the suite of products enhances and extends the functionality provided by the core Sage applications.

Datel looks after a broad ranging base of customers including those in distribution, manufacturing, construction and the food and drinks sectors.  Typically they are mid sized companies who rely upon Datel to make the most of their investment with Sage.

They pride themselves in their approach to doing business.  They seek to know and thoroughly understand their customers and their businesses so, in turn, they can appreciate fully all of the issues and challenges they face.  Only then can they presume to offer a solution that will make a real difference to the way they do business. 

Everything Datel does is guided by their belief in providing only the very best in customer service.

We at Accware echo those sentiments and look forward to a long and productive relationship supplying Sage solutions to the SME marketplace.

 

 

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