Source: Sage
Sage North America Sells Tax Compliance Services Business, Enterprise-Level Customer Base to Empower Corporation
Empower Also Agrees to Provide Outsourced Tax Compliance Services to Sage Abra HRMS Customers
IRVINE, CA--(Marketwire - March 5, 2009) - Sage North America announced today an agreement
with Empower Corporation, formerly Empagio Corporation, through which
Empower has acquired Sage North America's tax compliance services business
and enterprise-level customer base, and will provide outsourced tax
compliance services to Sage Abra HRMS customers. The business being
acquired by Empower is currently marketed as Sage Compliance Services, and
managed under Sage North America's Employer Solutions business unit.
The new relationship enables Sage to better leverage its core strength in
delivering HRMS (human resource management system) software and services
for small and mid-sized businesses (SMBs) in North America, and allows
Empower to provide important services to its customers and market.
"Our relationship with Empower allows us to continue to offer small and
mid-sized businesses the same level of tightly integrated tax compliance
services with our Sage Abra HRMS products that we deliver today," said Karl
Grass, senior vice president and general manager of Employer Solutions at
Sage. "At the same time, we redirect resources to focus on further
strengthening the Sage Abra HRMS line, which is the strategic core of our
Employer Solutions business."
"We are pleased to expand our suite of Human Resources Solutions for
mid-large companies through this agreement," said Seth Bernstein, Empower's
CEO. "Empower will be an even stronger company with the addition of Sage
North America's payroll tax compliance services business; a tremendous and
experienced group of dedicated employees; and some of America's strongest
and best-known companies on our already long list of Fortune 500
companies."
As a result of the transaction, Empower will continue to perform the
day-to-day operations of the Sage Compliance Services business, located in
Dallas, Texas.
Sage Abra HRMS is Sage North America's award-winning HR/payroll software
for SMBs in North America. The company continues to build on that
leadership with innovative new tools for employers. In the recent past,
Sage North America has launched new options to run Sage Abra HRMS either as
a turn-key hardware/software solution, or in a hosted environment; an
SQL-based payroll option; Sage Payroll PayCards, a new option that enables
companies to pay their employees with pre-loaded paycards that operate like
cash; and Sage Compliance Trainer, an online HR compliance training
solution for employers.
About Empower Corporation
Empower, formerly Empagio and headquartered in Orlando, Florida, provides
Payroll, Human Resources, and Workforce Time & Labor Management Solutions
software and services to many of the Fortune 100 companies. Empower is a
robust platform that has been servicing large corporations for over 25
years. Empower is dedicated to providing superior service along with state
of the art Payroll and Human Resources solutions. The software and services
are highly reliable and produce over 100 million paychecks annually. For
more information, please visit www.empowersoftware.com.
About Sage North America
Sage North America is part of The Sage Group plc, a leading global supplier
of business management software and services. At Sage, we live and breathe
business every day. We are passionate about helping our customers achieve
their ambitions. Our range of business software and services is continually
evolving as we innovate to answer our customers' needs. Our solutions
support accounting, operations, customer relationship management, human
resources, time tracking, merchant services and the specialized needs of
the construction, distribution, healthcare, manufacturing, nonprofit and
real estate industries. Sage North America employs approximately 4,800
people and supports 2.9 million small and medium-size business customers.
The Sage Group plc, formed in 1981, was floated on the London Stock
Exchange in 1989 and now employs more than 14,500 people and supports more
than 5.8 million customers worldwide. For more information, please visit
the web site at www.sagenorthamerica.com or call 866-308-2378.
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logos and the Sage product and service names mentioned herein are
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affiliated entities. All other trademarks are the property of their
respective owners.
Contact Information: Press Contacts:
John Schoutsen
Sage
905-267-2873
john.schoutsen@sage.com
Cynthia Sutton
Sage
703-793-2700 ext. 3032
cynthia.sutton@sage.com
Robert Purcifull
Empower Corporation
949-863-9002
rpurcifull@empagio.com