The company also embedded Sage Intelligence Reporting in the product and implementing cross-platform data management and provided data analytics. And a new mobile interface became available. But there was not much effort to hone in on the product announcements. Executive keynotes, like those of Nick Goode, VP of global product management, whipped from product to product without much detail. There was a quick mention of Sage 300 hosted on Azure to come in August; direct bank feeds, payroll, job cost and the ability to use SQL Server with an October Sage 100 release. A release talked about Sage 50c with Sage Contact synching with Microsoft Outlook; Sage Capture for photographing receipts and invoices. The explanation of launches is usually best made by lower-level product management executives, but they were not readily offered. Can this be that the message on these products is simply the company is marking time with existing products while it transitions to Sage One, Live and X-3 and whatever fills the gap between Live and X-3.
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Sage unleashed a number of new products at Summit earlier this month. But consistent with the approach of recent months, it has adopted a puzzling approach of lumping announcements together, an easy way to have products become lost. Included in the new list was Sage X3 VII with a variety of features including end-to-end supply chain management, flexible product and faster global financial management.
