The official announcements says that the product “offers mobile access and a host of web apps, as well as Microsoft Office integration and an all-new powerful search function” and that the platform was built on cloud-native technologies, which is followed  by a list that only a true techie could love. One I’m not familiar with is MongoDB and my first reaction was, “Mongo? Wasn’t he in ‘Blazing Saddles?’” Meanwhile, back at the ranch, Sage also introduced Sage 300 Online as part of a slew of announcements at Summit that seemed to have limited relationship to what was offered for discussion with the press. Does Sage 300 Online have new functionality beyond going online? The answer is “No” as far as I can determine. One problem was the Q&A with CEO Pascal Houillon and CTO Himanshu Palsule was held adjacent to the show floor and speakers needed microphones and listeners needed headsets—the kind available for museum tours, I felt like I kept getting the Japanese channel—and it was still hard to hear. Sage gets an A for show floor management, a C for press relations and communication in general.