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Sage's Accpac ERP, MAS ERP Ranked
 TMCnet Contributing Editor
Sage Software ( News - Alert) has announced that the latest versions of its Sage Accpac ERP and Sage MAS ERP enterprise resource planning and accounting systems have won top rankings in The CPA Technology Advisor's annual Review of Mid-Range Accounting Systems.
Reviewer Mary Girsch-Bock awarded 5-Star overall ratings for Sage Accpac 200 ERP 5.5 and Sage MAS 90 and 200 ERP 4.3. Both products are components of the company's new Extended Enterprise Suites launched earlier this year.
"These performances demonstrate how our products continue to address the needs of our business customers," said Himanshu Palsule, Sage Software executive vice president and general manager, Strategic Products, Business Management Division.
Also recently, Sage CRM Solutions, part of the Sage Group plc, announced the new Sage SalesLogix v7.5 CRM suite.
Sage SalesLogix v7.5 is described as a "comprehensive connected and disconnected Web user experience," and claims "integration with Web 2.0 technologies so users can access and interact with tools such as Google ( News - Alert) Maps, Jigsaw, LinkedIn, Zillow and others."
Personalized welcome pages, enhanced lead management and list creation, and productivity tools such as timeline visualization are among other new features.
Joe Bergera, executive vice president and global general manager, Sage CRM Solutions, said the product can mash up contextual information from the Web, such as LinkedIn profiles. An online flash demonstration is also available at www.Sagecrmsolutions.com/slx75.
"We collected an incredible amount of product feedback this year," said David van Toor, senior vice president and general manager, Sage CRM Solutions North America, adding that the product has features users "and competing CRM providers alike will find impressive."
New product functions allow users access to Sage SalesLogix anywhere via a Web browser "without sacrificing usability or functionality," company officials say, since the Web client works with an Internet connection or while disconnected. In addition to sales force automation and marketing campaigns, customer support capabilities for assets, contracts, returns, and defects are now available through the Web client.
The Web client allows creation and viewing of targeted lists, as well as new group tabs, data filters, and the ability to select multiple records at once: "Users can see at a glance details with a new summary view and drill down for additional details."
Mashup capabilities, powered by RESTful Web services that request data via embedded url-style addresses, enable Web applications including Google Maps, Jigsaw, LinkedIn, Zillow and others to display relevant real-time data in Sage SalesLogix. Graphic controls enable sparkline snap shots of historical data, such as sales pipeline amount over time.
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Edited by Stefania Viscusi
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