Sage Connected World
Gavin May
Managing Director
Enterprise Solutions Division

The changing landscape

Automating the finance department
Market maturity

The changing landscape

Integrated solutions
Market maturity

Most important issues facing business

The changing landscape

Business Challenge
Business requirements are changing :
Businesses are looking to improve efficiency and reduce cost through business process improvement
Employees need greater and easier access to company information
Customers and suppliers want to conduct business with you electronically
Application interfaces have to be re-designed, they need to be highly interactive, relevant to role and personalised.
Interfaces need to be flexible enough to work with any device
Challenges:
Multiple systems designed and deployed to address departmental only needs
Multiple data sources locked in disparate departmental systems
No application integration
Little if no web integration
Security…opening your network up to the world
Tired and non dynamic user interface

make your data accessible and relevant

"By this time next year..."
By this time next year 8 out of 10 mid market companies will be focussed on improvements in electronically integrating both supply and customer transactions.


Source ( Supply Chain Management White Paper 2003)

The Sage Connected World

Summary
Protect your existing systems
Add new applications to enhance current systems…improve presentation and personalise data
Get more from existing systems…unlock the asset!
Integrate and Interface your systems to facilitate new services to employees, customers suppliers etc.
Sage is driving the ‘connected world’
A major step forward our new release Version 5.5