On the Road

We are on the road with Sage at the moment on their 6 monthly Business Partner events. It is really useful to talk to the partners and hear about their successes and the challenges they are facing. One partner thinks our solution might suit one of his customers who imports fishing goods from China. He could see how the automatic stock allocation when an order is placed would really help – however, the real problem the business has is they don’t even allocate stock when they place orders manually; they just wander around the warehouse. So no matter how good your integrated process are they only bring benefits if you are prepared to use them.

The other great thing about these events is it gives you the chance to hear what is going on at Sage. Some interesting snippets:

• There are 201,000 companies using Sage 50
• It is believed there are still 600,000 companies using manual accounting
• ACT! is the worldwide leader in CRM with 2.8M users
• ACT! stands for Advanced Customer Tracking!