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SAGE DROPPING "ERP" FROM X3 Featured

SageSage is renaming its midmarket product of the future at the end of next month. Sage ERP X3 will become Sage X3 on July 27. Hallelujahs were said by headline writers everywhere. A Sage product news update says customers react to ERP as being too difficult, complex and expensive while Sage is pushing X3 as faster, simpler and flexible. I thought putting ERP in the name is clunky and also that end users don't know what ERP is. Once I told a friend that and she responded "When we talk about ERP, users just look at us.

When we say, 'It's accounting software', they go 'Oh, I understand.'" A lot of marketing material exists so the company warned that the names will co-exist for some time. Maybe they could rename the company. Best Software has a real ring to it. Meanwhile, Sage was displaying another one of its products of the future, the cloud based Life, at the world tour event of Sage partner, Salesforce, this week in New York, Hey, if you sell a maintenance contract for this product, is it called "Life Support"? Life was being demonstrated. Or rather, as one attendee described it, dashboards were being demonstrated. It still sounds like developers are hard at work trying to finish the product in time for the Sage Summit conference at the end of July. I mentioned that to one colleague who has worked for vendors and firms. He said in the 1990s, Epicor demonstrated a product that did not exist in front a crowd. The company, he related, had curtains hanging on the table hiding Epicor personnel who were busy making the screen display what the product was alleged to do. Never heard that story before.

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