Sage North America – New ERP Software Names

Posted by admin on January 13, 2012 under CRM Software, ERP Software | Be the First to Comment

Sage North America recently announced that they are renaming many of their software products in order to increase awareness of the Sage brand. Although one of the largest software companies in the world, they found that when they did surveys, the individual software product names Sage sold were more recognizable than the general Sage brand. Like almost all of the other major mid-market ERP software vendors, Sage has acquired a number of software products over the past 15 years, but each solution has remained somewhat autonomous.

This move in North America now more closely parallels the Sage naming conventions in Europe. The goal of the changes is really twofold: 1) They want to increase awareness of the Sage name, and 2) They want to show scalability and where each product fits in the market – The lower the number, the less complex and geared to smaller companies – the higher the number the more sophisticated and focused on larger companies. They are also increasing integration of their general ERP products to their niche and stand-alone CRM, Fixed Assets, HR and Payroll solutions.

The following is a high-level guide to the new names for some of their major products:

Peachtree = Sage 50 US Edition (with various industry specific templates)
Simply Accounting = Sage 50 Canadian Edition (with various industry specific templates)
MAS 90 = Sage 100 Standard ERP
MAS 200 = Sage 100 Advanced ERP
Master Builder = Sage 100 Contractor
Accpac = Sage 300 ERP
Timberline = Sage 300 Construction and Real Estate
MAS 500 = Sage 500 ERP
Sage ERP X3 = Sage ERP X3
FAS = Sage Fixed Assets

The complete list can be found here: http://www.sagenorthamerica.com/Company/Brand/Sage-Product-Name-Grid

The bottom line is that until these new names become more recognized in the market, if you are considering a Sage solution you should be very careful to identify the specific product you are looking at. While it is helpful to see scalability of the software solutions more clearly with the 50, 100, 300, and 500 levels, the name changes make the products appear to be the same, when in reality they are completely different products with different code bases. In fact, some completely different products now have the same name. (Peachtree and Simply Accounting are both now known as Sage 50 and there is another Sage 50 software product in Europe). So make sure that you clearly understand which product you are talking about with the Sage salesperson or Sage Partner that you are working with.