The Sage Group, more commonly known as Sage, is a global enterprise software company that was founded in 1981 by David Goldman, Paul Muller, and Graham Wylie.  Sage has its   headquarters in Newcastle upon Tyne in the United Kingdom. The software company’s focus was to develop estimating and accounting software for small businesses. In 1984 the Company launched Sage software, a product for the Amstrad PCW word processor. Sales escalated that same year to more than three-hundred copies a month, when previously the number had hovered around thirty.

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Today, Sage’s key industry focus includes: Healthcare; HR & Payroll; Construction/ Real-Estate; Transport/ Distribution; Payment Processing; Accountancy; Not-for-Profit; Manufacturing; Retail; Automotive Distribution. And, the company’s product set can be catalogued into: Accounting; Payroll; Customer Relationship Management (CRM); Financial forecasting; Payment processing; Job costing; Human Resources; Business intelligence; Taxation and other products for accountants; Business stationery; Development platforms; and E-business.

As a result, Sage has become the world's third-largest supplier of enterprise resource planning software –coming in only after Oracle and SAP. It is considered the largest supplier to small businesses, and has over six million customers all over the world. Sage is listed on the London Stock Exchange and is a constituent of the FTSE 100 Index.

Ten years ago, the business press in the United Kingdom named shares of Sage ‘best performing share of the 90s’. In 2002, Sage won ‘Business of The Year' in National Business Awards. Although in 2006, an IDC analysis showed Sage had approximately twenty-one percent of the small business market, three years later, according to a Worldwide ERP survey taken by the prestigious Gartner Group, Sage had a nine percent market share of the total global ERP market. This market was then valued at twenty-three billion dollars.

Enterprise resource planning, or ERP, software solutions are broad-reaching applications and technology systems that encompass virtually every task and procedure that improve productivity and reduce costs across the entire back office of a business. Initially meant to aid just the manufacturing industry, manufacturers implemented the world’s first ERP systems close to forty years ago. Ever since, this industry has utilized ERP to improve production processes and reduce related costs with enhanced inventory management, reduced production schedule lag times, intellectual property tracking, and input/output control. These improvements then enabled more effective implementation of proven best practices such as just-in-time manufacturing models and kaizen techniques, which are the Japanese processes of continuous improvement using problem-solving and analysis.

During the years it has been around, however, ERP also became a force in other industries because using ERP software was documented to incorporate proven methodologies and best practices that boosted productivity and reduced expenses.  Once ERP had been properly implemented in a business, the company was then able to seamlessly link operational processes across finance, production, human resources, distribution, and other core departments. This integral unity, in turn, dramatically enhanced the planning, execution, management, and control of the company’s most mission-critical functions. 

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