Quarterly Sage Mid-Market executive business update—November 18 partner webcast
Key highlights from FY14 and important FY15 initiatives
Hosted by Joe Langner, executive vice president and general manager of Sage Mid-Market Solutions, and key members of his leadership team—join the Sage Mid-Market Solutions executive business update and partner recognition webcast on Tuesday, November 18.
In this webcast, you'll gain insight into channel strategies that can help arm you with tools and information to increase your sales performance and maximize new customer acquisition.
- Get the latest news about Sage Mid-Market products, marketing, and sales.
- Hear about key initiatives, product updates, and recent sales wins.
- Find out what Sage partners are doing to win deals in the marketplace.
- Interact with and ask questions that will be answered by the Sage leadership team.
We will also recognize Sage Mid-Market business partners who made significant contributions to new license organic growth and sales to existing customers from the prior quarter.
Please take a moment to register for this webcast today, and invite your colleagues!
Tuesday, Nov.18, at 9:30 a.m. PT/12:30 p.m. ET (90 min.)
U.S./Canada toll free: 877-397-0300 • Int'l toll: 719-325-4840 • Code: 903307
Sage CRM Cloud version 2014 R2 is targeted for release November 23, 2014
In November, all North American customers on Sage CRM Professional, our cloud version of Sage CRM, will be automatically upgraded to a new exciting Sage CRM release. View the product section for more details.
Join us for an overview of Sage CRM and hear about our new Sage CRM 2014 R2 cloud release scheduled for November 23, which includes a new contemporary user experience, intuitive design, and tools to help boost team productivity. During this presentation, we will cover:
- A sneak feature preview into upcoming Sage CRM 7.3, and Sage CRM roadmap plans
- Sales, channel, and marketing activities
- Marketing and sales tools that are available to help you sell now.
- Where we see your best opportunities are for selling Sage CRM.
Sage CRM, cloud or on-premises, offers you a strong value-added solution for your existing customers—or a compelling and competitive solution that can be sold as a standalone.
For more information, please refer to the Sage CRM playbook on Sage Sell.
Tuesday, November, 18 at 11 a.m. PT/2 p.m. ET
Sage cross-sell webcast series
The purpose of the monthly Sage cross-sell webcast series is to provide you with new insights on hot topics across a variety of industry sectors so that you can position technology solutions to solve critical business challenges.
Research studies, trend analysis, best practices, and customer use cases are some of the examples of content being shared in the webcast. In addition, we will also have a solution showcase—where we dig deeper into specific business challenges and the solutions available to help solve the problem—helping you drive additional revenue and loyalty opportunities.
Our next event on Wednesday, November 19, will focus on the unique challenges manufacturers and distributors are faced with in complying with the documentation requirements needed to validate noncollection of sales tax for their products or services. For manufacturers and distributors, it’s not about collecting sales tax—it's about having the supporting documentation to show why it wasn’t collected.
With an average payback of five months, come learn more about why thousands of manufacturing and distribution customers have already automated the exemption certificate management and returns filing processes—using Sage Sales Tax to address these challenges and documentation requirements.
Wednesday, November 19, at 10 a.m. PT/1 p.m. ET
Recorded: Sage CRM
By combining Sage CRM with Sage ERP, your customer’s business benefits from end-to-end visibility—where each department is working from the same database and communicating the same information in the same way. The result is greater insight into business performance and more efficient business processes that drive growth, increase productivity, and boost profitability.
Learn how your competitors are combining CRM as a part of their "extended" ERP value proposition. Hear what's achievable in terms of cross-selling Sage CRM or including Sage CRM in a new customer deal. Find out more about the new Sage CRM integration to Sage ERP X3 and upcoming integration to the Sage Data Cloud as shown at Sage Summit 2014.
Note: There will not be a Sage cross-sell webcast in December.
Maximize your investment in Sage ERP Intelligence Reporting [Tips]
If you are already using Sage Intelligence with your Sage ERP solution, this session will provide you with useful tips for taking it to the next level. Improve customizations to get the reports that meet the needs of your business and more. We will provide you with examples you can use to get in-depth reporting methodology, and advanced tips to help you get ROI improvements.
Wednesday, November 19, at 11 a.m. PT/2 p.m. ET
Use Sage Alerts and Workflow to trigger, schedule, and distribute your Sage ERP Intelligence Reporting reports
Did you know that you can use Sage Alerts and Workflow to autogenerate and deliver your Sage ERP Intelligence Reporting reports? You can “trigger” your reports using specific data conditions (for example, when clients get to within 10% of their credit limit or have invoices over 120 days old), or schedule them to be delivered on a recurring basis.
Reports can be delivered by email, FTP, and web browser, and they can be accompanied by supporting charts and graphs. They can also be autorouted to the “responsible party,” such as a customer’s account manager or product owner.
Thursday, November 20, at 11 a.m. PT/2 p.m. ET
Improve collaboration using Sage ERP Intelligence Reporting
Distributing reports with Sage ERP Intelligence Reporting is a breeze! Report distribution is a powerful feature that allows you to quickly and easily send your reports, in your preferred format, making information accessible across the company, therefore improving collaboration. You can send reports to file, FTP site, or email, and they can be scheduled to send even when you're not in the office.
Tuesday, November 25, at 11 a.m. PT/2 p.m. ET
Sage ERP X3 monthly partner call
You won't want to miss the next Sage ERP X3 monthly partner call on Friday, December 19, when Donna Armstrong, VP Sage ERP X3, will kick off the webcast with a business update.
Learn what's new from:
- Product management.
- Sales.
- Marketing.
- Professional Services Group (PSG).
- Support.
- Training.
Register for the webcast today, and invite your colleagues! We look forward to seeing you there.
Friday, Dec. 19, at 10 a.m. PT/1 p.m. ET (90 min.)
U.S./Canada toll free: 877-681-3373 • Int'l toll: 719-325-4844 • Code: 151119
Sage Certified Development Professional and Sage Certified Solution programs for Sage ERP X3 developers
Recently, Sage announced the launch of two new programs for Sage ERP X3 developers:
- Sage Certified Development Professional program
- Sage Certified Solution program
These new programs provide new training, revenue, marketing, and support opportunities to ISV and developer organizations that build add-ons to Sage ERP X3 to extend its functionality for various industry segments.
Highlights of the new programs include:
- Comprehensive developer training: The Sage Certified Development Professional program creates and supports an ecosystem of certified developer individuals trained in best practice integration methodologies to Sage ERP X3.
- Sage-tested solution certification: Solution providers can apply to certify their solution against Sage-tested certification criteria to increase customers’ confidence using those solutions.
- Certified solution ecosystem: Business partners and end users will see an expanding ecosystem of certified third-party solutions for Sage ERP X3 that add functionality in the mid-market ERP space.
For additional information, please contact [email protected].
The Sage Thought Leadership webcast series
In his inimitable style, Ed Kless, Sage senior director, partner development and strategy at Sage, opens our own version of The Tonight Show. He tells a story about a famous chess match and then connects it to a series of questions from business thinker Peter Block.
This is the first of seven podcasts from Sage Summit 2014 entitled, Creating a new future: Partnering in the age of the cloud. This session is dedicated to the possibility that partners will be more successful in the future if they are willing to transform their business model to better reflect the realities of the new marketplace. This is hard work, as it requires us to think differently about our preconceived notions of the past and future.
If you are interested in actively participating in the creation of the future, this session is for you. This session is for all partners of Sage, regardless of product.
Other podcasts in this series include interviews with:
- Stan Mork, president of the ITA: "The small to mid-sized business owner is realizing that IT is not their core competency. This is a huge opportunity for partners," and Donald Deshaies, VP of channel management at Sage: “The flexible model, the agile model are what will help us and our partners make the shift and adapt."
- Dom Pernai, president and founder of Cornerstone Solutions: “The people who are leveraging the cloud are typical our best customers already. They are typically the market leaders in our space and are looking for ways to continue to leverage off of technology," and Doug LaBahn, SVP, product management and marketing at Sage: “We are seeing that as you move up the maturity curve (of technology), a dramatic improvement in the ability to win and keep customers."
- Jeff Roth, head of SWK Technologies: "We need to listen to each other. Understand what we are seeing out there, convey that to Sage and then market it," and Bill Rietz, VP at Sage: “It (the future) starts with a conversation and collaboration about how partners see their role in servicing their customers.”
- Peter Wolf, president and chief evangelist for Azamba: “CRM is a natural antidote to the rise of competitive pressure," and David Beard, CRM principal at Sage: “We have to use technology to even be competitive.”
- Joe Langner, EVP and general manager at Sage: “Think beyond the single solution you might be comfortable with and don’t be afraid to ask (your prospect or customer) a challenging question.”
- Ed Kless, Sage senior director, partner development and strategy at Sage, in his closing session, Creating a New Future: “Choose accountability. Choose freedom.
Definitely worth an encore, you can still view the archives of the Sage Thought Leadership webcast series, which we ran in FY 2013 as a monthly webcast series offered to Sage business partners and customers.
In these sessions, we explored how emerging technologies can transform your business for the better, we explored the hot-button topics that will reshape the way you work, and we showed how you can view key business issues and innovations through a new lens.
View podcasts on iTunes or download or listen to all episodes.
Sage partner podcasts are rockin’
Each week Ed Kless interviews a partner about his or her businesses. You can listen to them here or subscribe on iTunes.
If you are interested in having your moment in the sun by being interviewed for a podcast, please send Ed Kless an email with the word podcast in the subject line, and he will send you information on how to become a guest.
Sage partner podcasts are part of the Sage Thought Leadership series. |
