Agreement brings
together Sage technology with Microsoft cloud solutions to better help
companies with their accounting and productivity needs
Dubai, 20th September –
Sage, the world’s leading small business accounting and payroll
solutions provider, today announced a global agreement with Microsoft to
collaborate on future product development. This will include new Sage
products built on Microsoft platforms and closer integration across the
two companies’ respective product portfolios. Through this agreement,
Sage will deliver next-generation accounting and bookkeeping
productivity tools built on best-in-class Microsoft cloud solutions.
Small companies
represent 99 per cent of the world’s businesses and have created
two-thirds of all new jobs in the UK and U.S. since 2009. Through this
agreement, Sage will be able to help small and medium businesses by
giving access to the full extent of the two companies’ resources and
technology.
Sage has worked
with Microsoft for the past two decades, and the company is also a key
customer for Microsoft Office 365, Microsoft Windows and Microsoft
Azure. Today’s announcement extends the relationship to deliver cloud,
on-premise and hybrid solutions at a global level.
Alan Laing, EVP, global strategic partnerships and alliances at Sage,
commented: “We have enjoyed a long and fruitful relationship with
Microsoft for many years at a local level, but this new agreement is
about taking a step back to look at the bigger picture. We’re imagining
what could be made possible for Small & Medium Businesses if our two
organizations worked more closely together on a global scale.
“We’re really
excited about the possibilities – the greatest developer minds working
on the very latest platforms to build exciting new solutions for Small
& Medium Business in the long-term. That’s what Sage is all about
and we’re delighted to share that vision with Microsoft.”
“We’re pleased
to be growing our relationship with Sage, building upon their work with
Azure, and extending it to the Office 365 platform,” said Julia White,
General Manager of Office 365 Product Marketing, Microsoft Corp. “By
developing on the Office 365 platform, Sage will ultimately help
accountants and bookkeepers to be more productive.”
