Steve Attwell, General Manager - Lower Mid Market Channel of Sage announced today the decision not to release Sage 100 in its current guise and that development has stopped.
This is not a decision they have taken lightly, however they feel it is the right decision if they are to meet their long term goals. These goals include satisfying the changing customer trends and demands such as SaaS and on demand delivery.
Henry Catherwood of Bluestone Computing commented; ” Our teams have worked hard on the Sage 100 product over the last few months as part of the developer’s beta program. We really felt it was going well, so for many reasons, we are disappointed with this news.”
“We know some of clients will also be frustrated, waiting as they have for greater load capacity with the same Sage 50 look, feel and functionality.”
“Many of our clients have already selected one or more of our Workplace Suite modules that include;
Stock Control, Sales and CRM to deliver the high demand, multi-user functions they need. This then has left Sage 50 to handle just the core Financials; the bank, ledgers, reports and analysis work.”
Sage firmly believe that the opportunity still exists within the market for a premium offering for expanding and growing business that have larger customer and supplier bases, larger transaction volumes and an expanding user base. Some growing Sage 50 Accounts customers need an accounting solution that has the increased capability of growing with their business, without having to move to the additional complexities of the Sage 200 Suite.
We are sure Sage will have some positive news over the coming months.
This is not a decision they have taken lightly, however they feel it is the right decision if they are to meet their long term goals. These goals include satisfying the changing customer trends and demands such as SaaS and on demand delivery.
Henry Catherwood of Bluestone Computing commented; ” Our teams have worked hard on the Sage 100 product over the last few months as part of the developer’s beta program. We really felt it was going well, so for many reasons, we are disappointed with this news.”
“We know some of clients will also be frustrated, waiting as they have for greater load capacity with the same Sage 50 look, feel and functionality.”
“Many of our clients have already selected one or more of our Workplace Suite modules that include;
Stock Control, Sales and CRM to deliver the high demand, multi-user functions they need. This then has left Sage 50 to handle just the core Financials; the bank, ledgers, reports and analysis work.”Sage firmly believe that the opportunity still exists within the market for a premium offering for expanding and growing business that have larger customer and supplier bases, larger transaction volumes and an expanding user base. Some growing Sage 50 Accounts customers need an accounting solution that has the increased capability of growing with their business, without having to move to the additional complexities of the Sage 200 Suite.
We are sure Sage will have some positive news over the coming months.
