{"id":14379,"date":"2015-05-13T09:43:57","date_gmt":"2015-05-13T09:43:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.businesscloudnews.com\/?p=224781"},"modified":"2015-05-13T09:43:57","modified_gmt":"2015-05-13T09:43:57","slug":"sage-salesforce-partner-to-offer-cloud-based-sme-accounting-solutions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/sage-salesforce-partner-to-offer-cloud-based-sme-accounting-solutions\/","title":{"rendered":"Sage, Salesforce partner to offer cloud-based SME accounting solutions"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_156522\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"width: 310px\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.businesscloudnews.com\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/122\/files\/2013\/09\/Accountant-Ipad.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-156522\" alt=\"Sage has developed a cloud-based offering for SMEs on the Salesforce platform\" src=\"http:\/\/www.businesscloudnews.com\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/122\/files\/2013\/09\/Accountant-Ipad-300x199.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"199\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sage has developed a cloud-based offering for SMEs on the Salesforce platform<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Accounting software incumbent Sage has partnered with Salesforce to develop\u00a0 business software based on the Salesforce\u2019s cloud platform.<\/p>\n<p>The two companies jointly developed Sage Life, which is being pitched as a set of cloud-based, mobile-enabled payroll and accounting tools for small businesses based on the Salesforce1 platform.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTogether with Salesforce, Sage is shaping the future of small business. Small business software no longer has to represent different systems or layers of complexity \u2013 it\u2019ll be simple, collaborative, and real time,\u201d Stephen Kelly, chief executive of Sage.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWith Sage Life, we are delivering social, mobile, cloud-based innovation, powered by real-time accounting. Now running a small business can be as easy as updating your Facebook status,\u201d Kelly said.<\/p>\n<p>The company said the software will help give small businesses a consolidated view of their customers, something often difficult to achieve given a fragmented technology landscape (SMEs don\u2019t typically have the cash to spend on strong systems integration).<\/p>\n<p>The move is a positive sign for Salesforce, which has attracted a wide range of new and legacy ISVs to its platform; Sage is quite popular in the UK (where it is based) and while it has its own cloud service in Sage One, developing a Salesforce-based alternative to its legacy solutions could broaden its reach.<\/p>\n<p>The partnership comes as rumours surrounding Salesforce\u2019s potential acquisition continue to swell. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.businesscloudnews.com\/2015\/04\/30\/rumour-has-is-salesforce-is-looking-to-sell-itself\/\">Salesforce has repeatedly declined rumours<\/a> that it is working with financial advisors and fielding acquisition inquiries, with many betting that Microsoft may be one of the suitors in the running.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Accounting software incumbent Sage has partnered with Salesforce to develop  business software based on the Salesforce&rsquo;s cloud platform.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":105,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[528,1976,2540,913,59,2541],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14379","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-accounting","category-news-analysis","category-sage","category-salesforce","category-software-as-a-service","category-stephen-kelly"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14379","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/105"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14379"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14379\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14380,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14379\/revisions\/14380"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14379"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14379"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14379"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}