Sage Business Solutions

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Sage Business Solutions
Private
Industry Computer software
FoundedEstablished in 2006.
Headquarters Sydney, New South Wales
Key people
Mike Lorge, Managing Director
Products Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP),
Customer Relationship Management (CRM),
Business Intelligence (BI)

Sage Business Solutions provides end-to-end financial accounting software, Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) software, Customer Relationship Management (CRM) software and Business Intelligence (BI) software to large, mid-size and small business in Australia, New Zealand and the Pacific Islands.

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Sage business software is delivered by business partners. Sage's partner community is the largest in Australia and New Zealand with over 120 partners.

Sage Business Solutions is a wholly owned subsidiary of The Sage Group plc, an international company specialising in accounting, payroll and CRM software applications. [1] With operations throughout the UK, Europe, North America, Australia, Asia and South Africa, the Sage Group has an installed customer base of over 7.1 million small and medium-sized businesses around the globe.

History

Sage Business Solutions Pty Ltd was the result of a merge between the previously known Accpac Australia and Sage CRM Solutions. [2] The resulting entity has been led by Managing Director, Mike Lorge, since its inception in 2006.

Executive Team

Mike Lorge is the Managing Director of Sage Business Solutions for Australia and New Zealand.

Mike is a chartered accountant and became a director of Softline Holdings (now wholly owned by Sage) [3] in 1999, after his IT services company Lorge Consulting was acquired by Softline. This company was a Sage Accpac Business Partner and grew to be the largest and most profitable in the world, winning numerous partner awards. [1]

Mike moved to Australia in 2000 following the establishment by Softline of its Australian operations. The following year he founded Pivotil [4] which provides best practice business management tools and methodologies for Sage Business Partners.

Products

References and footnotes

  1. 1 2 "Lorge wins ACCPAC dealer of the year award, 19 October 2001". ITWeb . Retrieved 22 September 2009.[ permanent dead link ]
  2. ↑ "Sage merges operations into Business Solutions, ARN 27 September 2006" . Retrieved 22 September 2009.
  3. ↑ Softline Merger 'Seamless', 2004.
  4. ↑ "Profile: The House of Lorge , ARN 12 June 2002" . Retrieved 22 September 2009.
  5. ↑ Sage Accpac ERP is now recognised as Sage 300 ERP

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