Sage has enhanced Sage Live, one of the products on which the company is betting its future. New features include the ability to manage tasks such as invoicing and approval requests via Sage Live for iOS. The company says the release also enables businesses to manage multiple companies or business locations from a single interface. Also new are automated bank feeds and a bank reconciliation engine.

Sage has introduced Sage50c, which appears to be a transition product between desktop and true cloud applications. The product, which seems to be almost a common name for an approach encompassing three applications, enables desktop users to push files to the cloud and work remotely. The Sage 50c package Pro, Premium and Quantum with both subscription and perpetual license pricing available.

Aptean has introduced Made2Manage 7.5, which marks the manufacturing product's move to Microsoft .NET technology as well as Microsoft SQL Reporting Services as its reporting engine. M2M is designed for small and medium-sized discrete manufacturers. M2M integrates enterprise resource planning and scheduling with shop floor execution for discrete manufacturers with dynamic, to-order environments—including engineer-to-order, make-to-order, assemble-to-order, and mixed mode operations.