You can’t afford to make the wrong e-business decisions in today’s economy. Fortunately, Sage Enterprise Suite provides the Quality Platform for e-business success. Whether you want to integrate with your existing web platform or you need an out-of-the box e-business system, Sage Enterprise Suite has the solutions to provide you the competitive advantage.

Sage Enterprise Suite provides accounting, distribution and e-commerce modules that are designed to get your e-business up and running quickly. For companies that already have invested in a Web site, Sage Enterprise Suite allows you to take advantage of any Web platform to integrate your e-business into the new Web-based economy.

Sage Enterprise Suite also offers unsurpassed performance and technology, key cornerstones of any serious e-business with high transaction volumes.

Our approach to e-business encompasses three critical areas of functionality:

• E-Commerce - to better manage the relationship between you and your business partners.
  
  Expanding business application software to the electronic visitor is the major growth area for e-business applications in the coming decade. This critical aspect of e-business is already an area of strength for Sage Enterprise Suite, and will continue to be a focus for future product releases. eCustomer, a business-to-business e-commerce module that empowers your customers with self-service capabilities, is the cornerstone of this offering.
  
  
• E-Management - to better manage your business operations.
  
  E-management software can increase the efficiency of both full-time users of applications as well as enable occasional users to become "self-service" empowered. In general, self-service functions are built into the appropriate operational modules, including:
  
  
  • Human Resources - Provides browser-based access to view, update and enter data relating to the employee's specific role in the organization.
    
    
  • Planning & Budgeting - Budgets always involve the whole organization, and this module provides tools that can be used by any manager to update and submit their budget. These tools are easy to use, and help budget owners revise the numbers without needing extensive training or experience.
    
    
  • Web Reports - Provides browser-based access to many of the reports found in the operational modules.
    
    Where appropriate, third party applications also provide employee self-service applications. In particular, our project accounting partners provide self-service applications for Time and Expense Entry.
    
    
  • Time & Expense Entry - Managing a project effectively requires up-to-the-minute information on expenses and time. This process can be dramatically streamlined through the use of Web-based time & expense reporting tools.
    
    
• Application delivery - to lower the cost of owning, implementing, and managing your software applications.
  
  Sage Enterprise Suite, built exclusively for Microsoft SQL server, leverages the full power of SQL server to deliver maximum performance. This includes the performance of key processes (such as processing shipments) as well as the ability to successfully manage large numbers of users on the system at once.
  
  Application Hosting is a software delivery model that has been gaining popularity. This term applies to a situation where the server machine is located offsite (on a "server farm" or with an Application Service Provider or ASP). The traditional alternative is to locate the server on-site, by purchasing a dedicated server and running the software locally.
  
  Sage Enterprise Suite can operate successfully in either model of server location. Most customers today run Sage Enterprise Suite on-site, but several customers have chosen to use an offsite server farm to run their Sage Enterprise Suite e-business system. Additionally, a large number of customers today deliver Sage Enterprise Suite to their remote corporate locations via the Internet - an internal-hosting model!