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New Edition Offers Improved Ease-of-Use, Streamlined Functionality, Simplified Access to Data, and Includes Many Other Customer-Requested Enhancements

Irvine , CA – Nov 06, 2008 – Sage Software announced today the availability of Sage BusinessWorks 50 Accounting 2009, the latest version of one of the company’s popular business-management solutions for small to medium-sized businesses. Sage BusinessWorks 2009 includes many new time-saving features and enhancements, and is even simpler and easier to use than ever. The 2009 edition offers customer-specific pricing, detailed open credits and deposit tracking, unlimited line items on transactions, and increased sales account entry capacity, in addition to check printing efficiencies, and other time-saving and technical enhancements.

“Sage BusinessWorks 2009 exemplifies the ongoing commitment and focus Sage Software has for producing a superior product,” says Stan Stankowski of Apex Software Group, a Sage BusinessWorks business partner located in Orlando, FL. “I’m especially impressed with the new open credits and deposits functionality, and the new customer-specific pricing feature, which allows you to easily assign different part prices for individual customers. I believe these and the many other new features and enhancements included in Sage BusinessWorks 2009 make it a significant, worthwhile upgrade for existing clients, and a smart choice for new ones.”

Increased Ease-of-Use, More Efficiency, and Greater Flexibility
Sage BusinessWorks 50 Accounting 2009 offers a number of new and improved features that help streamline accounting tasks, make the sales process easier, help companies save time and money during the check printing process, and make servicing and contacting customers even easier. Sage BusinessWorks 2009 includes:

• Customer-specific pricing, which helps eliminate data-entry errors and allows businesses to improve their customer service. Sage BusinessWorks 2009 makes configuring customer-specific pricing easy, by allowing users to import customer part prices and providing tools to copy part prices to other customers.
• Detailed open credits and deposit tracking, which allows users to easily reconcile open credit and deposit balances for customers. Sage BusinessWorks 2009 eliminates confusion by tracking each open credit and deposit as an individual transaction. Additionally, new detail reports help save time during the reconciliation process by displaying all new transactions that affect the open credit or deposit balance. These new, detailed reports also include drill-down capabilities, making researching details about transactions even easier, and helping to reconcile balances more quickly.
• Unlimited line items on quotes, sales orders, and purchase orders, eliminating the need to create multiple transactions for a single order and saving data-entry and reconciliation time.
• Increased sales accounts capacity in the Accounts Receivable and Order Entry modules, so users can enter up to 999 unique sales accounts on each transaction and better track sales.
• Check printing efficiencies that help save time and money. Sage BusinessWorks 2009 can now print regular payroll checks on payroll check stock and Direct Deposit Pay Stubs on plain paper, saving valuable payroll check stock. Sage BusinessWorks 2009 also helps save time by allowing users to print a check register containing a company’s entire payroll run in one procedure.
• Enhanced data-exchange procedures that allow users to export data in a format that they need to easily share customer, vendor, part, and employee data with third-party applications.
• Enhanced hyperlink capabilities that make it even easier to contact customers and vendors. These hyperlinks can be used to easily generate e-mail messages to customers and vendors from the most frequently used tasks.
• Enhanced Microsoft® Vista™ compatibility with Windows® Aero Glass support and an updated comprehensive HTML Help system.

Sage BusinessWorks 50 Accounting
Sage BusinessWorks is a feature-rich, modular-based accounting solution that helps small- to medium-sized businesses increase operating efficiencies through process automation. The solution includes General Ledger, Accounts Payable, and Accounts Receivable modules; along with cash management, inventory, order entry, payroll, job costing, and utility features. Sage BusinessWorks also offers more than 200 built-in reports with graphical reporting capabilities, plus it seamlessly integrates with other Sage Software applications to create an integrated front-office and back-office business solution that increases productivity and profitability.

Pricing and Availability
Current customers with an active ClientCare Support agreement receive a Sage BusinessWorks 2009 upgrade for no additional fee. For new customers, Sage BusinessWorks 2009 is available through local, authorized Sage BusinessWorks business partners. New single systems that include General Ledger, Accounts Payable, Accounts Receivable, and Cash Management modules, plus a one year support contract (includes upgrades, maintenance updates, and 10 technical support cases) start at a suggested list price of $1,694. For additional information, contact the Sage Software Sales Department at 800-477-5700, or visit www.sagebusinessworks.com.

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Canada’s Leading Provider of Enterprise Application Software to Small and Medium-sized Businesses (SMB’s)(1) offers New Version with Efficiency and Customization Enhancements, Improvements to Core Modules, and Fixed Asset Management Integration

Mississauga , ON – Mar 12, 2008 – Sage Software announced today a new version of its business management solution for growing small businesses, Sage BusinessVision 50 Accounting 7.2. This latest release includes an extensive list of customer-focused enhancements designed to deliver a better, more intuitive user experience, along with many new performance improvements and features in several modules, which further demonstrate Sage Software’s ongoing commitment to providing products that meet the needs of its customers.

Sage BusinessVision 50 Accounting is an affordable, easy-to-use business management solution for growing small businesses that require a step above entry-level accounting applications, but don’t yet require a more sophisticated, full-fledged enterprise resource planning (ERP) solution, such as Sage Accpac ERP. Sage BusinessVision 50 Accounting helps small businesses automate processes throughout their operations, including receivables, payables, inventory, payroll, job costing, and point-of-sale, among many others. Its advanced functionality, easy to use features and affordable cost make it an ideal choice for companies that have outgrown entry-level bookkeeping software such as Intuit® QuickBooks®.

“We continue to deliver on our promise to provide Sage Software’s customers with the tools they need to help further streamline and automate their business management processes”, said Sam Hunter, Sage Software senior vice president and general manager of the Value Business Unit. “Sage BusinessVision 7.2 also represents our commitment to innovation by ensuring it is meeting clients’ business needs both today, and in the future.”

Version 7.2 offers even more benefits that help to make internal business processes operate faster and easier, so users can spend less time focusing on daily tasks and more time on planning for future business success. It also runs on the new Microsoft® Windows® Vista™ operating system.

User Efficiency Updates in Purchase Order and Order Entry Modules
New functionality in Sage BusinessVision 50 Accounting version 7.2, such as the ability to more easily e-mail purchase orders and update vendor specific costs, plus improved, faster order entry processes will help users get their work done faster, and more accurately.

New Customization Options
With version 7.2, users can now further customize their Sage BusinessVision system to work the way they do, with the flexibility of even more configuration options. For example, the Sage BusinessVision Desktop can be personalized for and by each user, and security protocols that designate employees’ access can be applied to custom reports.

Improved Inventory Management
Sage BusinessVision 7.2 provides tighter inventory control features that translate into more accurate inventories, and improved time and cost savings as significant user errors can now be avoided. Businesses can now set up multiple units of measure for each product. Inventory can be purchased and sold in different measures while continuing to maintain an accurate count of how many individual units are in stock. Inventory details can be viewed at any time in sales, purchase, or stock measure. Purchase cost and sales prices can also be configured differently for each measure. Businesses can also track multiple UPC codes per product, use non-physical inventory items, and specify whether backorders and returns are permitted on an item-by-item basis.

General Ledger Module Enhancements
Gaining quick and accurate insight into any business is critical to maintaining a competitive edge. Sage BusinessVision 7.2 allows easy access to multiple years of historical business and financial data from one place. The enhanced General Ledger history lookup can access up to 99 years of history in seconds, right from the inquiry screen. Access to more historical data offers the ability to more effectively analyze trends and avoid future potential issues. Users can now also quickly import a new chart of accounts when creating another set of company data, or import transaction information from outside sources, such as payroll, accountant-mandated adjustments, or from other companies, with just a few simple clicks of the mouse. Several new options allow even tighter control over the heart of the system, such as a new print option in Journal Entry, validation on account segments and a new system warning that identifies when General Ledger integration with other components of the system has been turned off.

Fixed Asset Management Integration
With version 7.2, users can now easily move fixed asset management data from the Sage FAS 50 Asset Accounting system (version 2008.1) into their Sage BusinessVision 50 Accounting General Ledger, giving consistency to the information entered and reducing the risk of data errors caused by manual entry.(2)

Sage FAS 50 Asset Accounting provides advanced fixed asset accounting and reporting features for businesses needing fixed asset management for up to 1,000 fixed assets. Offering effective decision-making tools for integrated accounting environments like Sage BusinessVision 50 Accounting, Sage FAS 50 Asset Accounting gives a thorough overview of a company’s fixed assets at every stage, and is one of the easiest to use, most affordable solutions of its kind in the industry.

Pricing and Availability
Sage BusinessVision 50 Accounting 7.2 Standard Edition, (U.S. and Canadian versions), which includes 18 accounting and business management modules, and supports either one, five or ten users, is now available through authorized Sage BusinessVision business partners across North America starting at an SRP of $3,595 (USD), $2,695 (CDN) for the one user system. For additional information, contact Sage Software at 800-945-8007 (option 5), your local Sage BusinessVision business partner, or visit www.sagebusinessvision.com.

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1500 Qualifying Businesses Can Receive Assistance through New Program

Atlanta , GA – Jun 04, 2008 – Sage Software announced today the Peachtree Family-Owned Business Support Program, created to assist family-owned and operated small businesses in today’s uncertain economic environment. Through this initiative, Sage Software will provide a free copy of Peachtree by Sage Complete Accounting 2009, single user, with six months of free customer support to up to 1500 qualifying businesses.

“Sage Software and our Peachtree product line have been helping small businesses for more than thirty years, through good and bad times”, said Connie Certusi, general manager, small business accounting solutions, Sage Software. “The current economic environment can be challenging for small businesses, particularly those that are using Microsoft® Excel® or a manual system to manage their accounting. Small, family-operated companies are the backbone of the American economy, which is why we’ve launched the Peachtree Family-Owned Business Support Program to assist this key driver of the American economic machine. It is critical in times like these that small businesses manage their finances and cash flow carefully, and Peachtree gives them all the tools they need to do just that.”

“Family and closely held businesses represent the vast majority of employers throughout the US”, says Wayne Rivers, President of The Family Business Institute. “Family and closely held businesses represent 99% of all employers and provide jobs for almost two out of every three Americans. They account for 64% of our nation’s GDP”, said Rivers. “In other words, family business is big business.”

Rivers recommends that every small business concentrate on making smart decisions based on real numbers. “The economy is soft right now, and every closely held business owner should be doing three things: giving attention to how his/her time is spent to assure focus on highest payoff activities; right sizing in terms of people, equipment, and expenses; and making sure they have great numbers and data so they can make correct decisions relating to the two items above. This initiative by Sage Software could be a tremendous asset in getting business owners the kind of information they need to make smart decisions.”

The Peachtree Family-Owned Business Support Program runs through September 30th, 2008, or until 1500 qualified applications have been received and software distributed – at a total value of around $400,000. Sage Software will provide one free package per eligible company. For more details on the promotion and eligibility requirements, visit: http://www.peachtreecares.com.

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