Sage Launches ERPX3 in Australia and New Zealand

Sydney, Australia, July 22, 2009 --(PR.com)-- Sage, one of the world’s largest suppliers of business software today announced the availability of Sage ERPX3 for Australian and New Zealand customers.

Sage ERPX3 is the latest product in Sage’s Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) suite designed to automate and manage business processes for medium to large organisations with between 100 and 5,000 employees.

Processes automated by the new solution include finance, production, sales, CRM, purchasing and stock management functions. ERPX3 is particularly targeted at businesses in vertical markets and industries including discrete manufacturing, finance, process manufacturing, warehouse management, distribution, pharmaceutical, medical and mining.

This latest release is specifically designed for deployment and operation over the Internet. For customers this means reduced total cost of ownership (TCO) and improved speed and ease of deployment as they don’t need to invest in additional hardware or thin-client technology to roll the solution out. These are particularly high priorities for Australian and New Zealand businesses at present according to feedback from Sage’s extensive partner community of more than 30,000 resellers globally.

“A lot of ERP systems are coming to the end of their product life cycle at the moment and customers are assessing the upgrade options available to them,” said Mike Lorge, Managing Director, Sage Business Solutions, Australia and New Zealand.

“The typical challenges for upgrade and deployment are productivity loss when systems are down for cut-over or training occurs and ongoing management costs. We designed ERPX3 to address those challenges directly. It is quickly deployed, often alongside existing ERP solutions, and incorporates new graphics and an improved user interface that can be tweaked to reflect specific business and training needs, saving time and money.”

New features in Sage ERPX3 include:
· Improved interface and user friendless: Businesses can design graphical processes to augment traditional menus and navigation panes. This aids in training and adoption as graphics are more familiar and reflect specific business needs and user preferences
· Quick deployment across multiple branches/sites: Because ERPX3 is web-native, it can be deployed over the Internet allowing businesses to quickly scale access to connect new and remote branches to the database. For example, if a business has an office in Beijing and one in Sydney, employees from each office can log into the same system simultaneously, improving transparency and information access across the organisation.
· Multi-jurisdiction and Multi-lingual: ERPX3 includes the latest updates to accounting and tax management legislation across multiple jurisdictions allowing automatic capture and conversion of data for international trade. Users can login in the language of choice including English, French, German, Spanish and Chinese.
· Improved data visibility and Business Intelligence: ERPX3 includes an easy to use, configuarable user portal including customisable graphical Business Intelligence views with full drill-down to the underlying data. Any data can be exposed in this manner.

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