This is the first year of the combined user/reseller event, Sage Summit, which is being held the week of July 10 at the Gaylord National, just downstream from the nation's capital. I should call these adjacent shows since they are back to back. Sage seems to be off to a decent start on rounding up sponsors, perhaps because of the combo. Citrix Online is onboard as the go-to technology sponsor. Alpha II and ScanForce are Premier Gold Sponsors (Premier Gold Sponsors is this title inflation?). Technisoft is a Premier Silver sponsor and Altec, EdiSoft, JobOps, QuoteWerks, SAP BusinessObjects and Single Source Systems are Premier Bronze sponsors.

Sage says that the revenue improvement it saw in the second half of the year ended September 30 continued into the first quarter ended December 31. Typically of these kinds of trading announcements, no numbers are provided. The company said results were in line with expectations expressed when results were announced on December 1. I went through that announcement looking for the regional expectations and I can’t find any clear statement that I can point to as what the expectations are that are being met, at least nothing that’s easily measurable. The American financial reporting system is so superior to the British.