(They are unrelated as is a third product, Sage 50 Accounts, marketed in the United Kingdom). Connie Certusi, the EVP who leads the Sage small business effort in this country, says the Peachtree version won't hit until fiscal 2016, which begins on October 1. She did not give a firm date. Certusi notes the cloud-based Sage One is designed to compete head-on with QuickBooks Online. Sage Live, which just went live, is designed with the mobile user in mind. Explaining the Sage One-50 link, Certusi said, "We made it integrated to make it easier for accountants to use." Sage also plans to connect the U.S. version of Sage 50 to Sage Drive as has already occurred in Canada. Drive enables users to upload data from desktop system to the cloud.
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Sage North America has integrated Sage 50 Accounting-Canadian Edition, the former Simply Accounting, with the cloud-based Sage One. The link enables customers to transfer files from Sage One to Sage 50 and, according to the press release, "facilitates the data synchronization of customers, vendors, products and services between the two software solutions and simplifies the setup of Sage One for customers with existing Sage 50 data." The other shoe to be dropped is obviously the former Peachtree now sold as the other application on this continent under the Sage 50 banner.
