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Sage North America Announces Customer Awards Program Winners
| Source: Sage North America
ATLANTA, GA--(Marketwire - November 9, 2009) - Sage North America, whose business management
software and services are used by more than 2.9 million small and midsize
businesses in the United States and Canada, announced today the winners of
its second annual Customer Awards Program. Six companies were recognized at
the Sage Summit conference in Atlanta, GA. The Sage Customer Awards Program
recognizes the outstanding business achievements of customers using Sage
products and services.
Best Use of Customization
The Best Use of Customization award recognizes a Sage customer who has
customized their Sage solution to solve a specific business objective and
achieve a sustained competitive advantage. The 2009 winner is Metropolitan
Regional Information Systems (MRIS), Rockville, MD. In 2006, MRIS upgraded
its legacy accounting systems to Sage MAS 500 ERP and worked with Blytheco
LLC to develop and implement automated processes that simplified the entire
customer invoicing and payment cycle. In 2009, MRIS launched an online
payment service for its customers that integrated with Sage MAS 500 ERP.
Since then, over 32,000 customers have used the system to pay their MRIS
bills. As MRIS continues to automate its processes, they expect Sage will
continue to provide the stability and scalability to make this possible.
Community Stewardship
The Community Stewardship Award recognizes a Sage customer for their
outstanding commitment to better the lives of the people and the
communities they serve.
The 2009 winner is Teach For America, New York, NY. Prior to their Sage
SalesLogix implementation, the organization did not have a centralized
system to track prospective candidates in the field. They have now
standardized their recruitment processes resulting in a stronger applicant
pool through and more targeted and effective recruiting. Teach for America
worked with Infinity Info Systems on their implementation.
Best End-to-End Deployment
The Best End-to-End Deployment Award recognizes a Sage customer who has
achieved outstanding business results through the implementation of two or
more Sage applications. The 2009 winner is Power Curbers, Inc., Salisbury,
NC. Prior to their Sage implementation of MAS 500 ERP, Sage FAS Fixed
Assets and Sage SalesLogix, the company was using a difficult ERP system
and was spending more time managing the system than using the information.
As a result of this end-to-end implementation, the company has transitioned
to a pull inventory system using just-in-time manufacturing processes and
doubled their inventory turns in just 12 months. Power Curbers, Inc.
worked with Practical Software Solutions on their implementation.
Best Innovation Award
The Best Innovation Award recognizes a Sage customer who has developed a
unique solution to a challenge within their industry and demonstrated
significant business benefits as a result. The 2009 winner is Entertainment
Lighting Services, Inc., Sun Valley, CA. Prior to their implementation of
Sage MAS 500 ERP, the company was searching for a completely integrated
system that could handle their unique industry requirements in accounting
for rental and sales inventories as well as labor scheduling. They now have
a comprehensive system that helped reduce their inventory shrinkage by 50%
while the month-end close process was reduced from 4 weeks to 5 days.
Entertainment Lighting Services, Inc. worked with Information Integration
Group, Inc. on their implementation.
Rookie of the Year
The Rookie of the Year Award recognizes a new Sage customer who has
demonstrated immediate business results and positive impact from their Sage
implementation.
The 2009 winner is Coilhose Pneumatics, East Brunswick, NJ. Prior to Sage,
they were looking for a new ERP system that could unify their two separate
companies and they found it with Sage MAS 500 ERP. Product costing is now
automated and booking inter-company transactions is a snap. Coilhose
Pneumatics worked with Net@Work on their implementation.
Lifetime Achievement Award
The Lifetime Achievement Award recognizes an exceptional customer who has
used a Sage solution for over 10 years, and who has survived difficult
economic environments, shifting technology trends and demonstrated
continuous business improvements and results over this time period. The
2009 winner is Amix Salvage & Sales Ltd., Surrey, BC. The company has been
using Sage solutions for over 17 years. Since their initial DOS
implementation, they have now grown to use Sage Accpac ERP, which has
helped automate or eliminate many of their old manual processes such as the
manual time entry for payroll, which saved 15 hours each week. In
addition, real time perpetual inventory has saved 10 hours per month by
eliminating the need for retail store workers to research inventory levels.
Amix Salvage & Sales Ltd. worked with Plus Computer Solutions on their
implementation.
Sage congratulates all 6 winners of its Customer Awards Program, and wishes
each of them continued success in the years to come.
For more information on the Sage Customer Awards Program please visit:
http://www.sagenorthamerica.com/customer_resources/customer_awards_program.
To learn more about Sage Summit please visit: http://www.sagesummit.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. Sage North America employs
more than 4,100 people and supports nearly 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 14,500 people
and supports 5.8 million customers worldwide. For more information, please
visit the Web site at www.sagenorthamerica.com.
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