International Expansion- Taking

Sage Line 500 Overseas Arie Koppenhol

Sage Consultancy Services Director

Sage - Enterprise Solutions Division

Taking Sage Line 500 Overseas

• Challenges• Sage Enterprise Services Organisation• Skills• Examples• Some specific services• Benefits to you and your business partners

Taking Sage Line 500 Overseas

Challenges:• Currencies• Languages• Legal & fiscal regimes• Payment processing• Reporting• Chart of Accounts• Sage Line 500 Configuration

Modules, Projects, System keys, forms, multi-company setup

At your service

• Channel business partners and Sage to work together to best service you

• Plan carefully

• Channel customer: contact your business partner

• Direct customers: contactArie.Koppenhol@sage.com

+31 6 53 87 87 24

Sage Professional Services Team

• 15 Consultants / Project managers all over Europe

• Locations: Amersfoort (NL) and Winnersh

• 5 - 10 years experience with the product

• Languages covered: Dutch, English, French, German, Italian, Portuguese, Spanish

• Delivery of ‘full’ implementation of Sage Line 500

• Skills areas: F / D / M / S and Technical (including Visual Basic) on multiple platforms

• Includes experience with implementation of local Legal & Fiscal and business practice requirements (we are NOT L&F experts!)

• French speaking countries: close co-operation with Sage France

• 2002: over 30 (International) implementations

Service offerings

• Presales• Project Management• All steps within the implementation• Specifications of interfaces etc.• Training• Data migration• Go-live and first period end support• International Electronic payment processing• Post Implementation review• Chart of Accounts renumbering

Recent examples of co-operation in international implementations

End-user in Germany• Europe’s largest Biopharmaceutical Company• Corporate licence contract; 55 users• Delivery of 80 days• Finance + Distribution + Project Accounting• International Electronic payment processing• Project management by our Partner

End-user in Germany• Amusement Park• Additional 5 local users• Delivery of 14 days• Finance• Project management by our Partner

Recent examples of co-operation in international implementations

End-user in The Netherlands• Transportation company• Additional 6 local users• Delivery of 7 days• Training on Finance • plus International Electronic payment processing• Project Management by the customer

International Electronic payment processing

• Outgoing payments and direct debits• Saves on efforts and bank charges• Available for Belgium, Denmark, France, Germany, Spain, The

Netherlands• Fixed price delivery• Requires RWL and Electronic Payments modules• Germany: Visual Basic version available as well

Post implementation review

• Your organisation may have gone through a re-organisation phase

• New staff may be involved in the day-to-day operation of the system

• New version(s) of hardware or operating system may be available

• You may not be using the latest version of Sage Line 500

then a Post-Implementation Review could be beneficial

Post implementation review

• Focus on the Application, the Technical side or both. • Will take 3 to 5 days• Outcome: a report which informs you where the current usage

of the package may be improved, where improvement in available information can be reached and where operational costs may be reduced.

• Fee: £3000 (euro 4500) - £4500 plus £500 per additional day

Chart of Accounts renumbering

• For all modules• On Relational Data Base Mgt System• Even many-to-one from old to new• Customer involvement:

Supply mapping table (Ascii)User acceptance test

• Fee: £5000 (euro 7500) plus £1000 per additional company

Benefits to you and your business partners

• Local language• Experience with local requirements• Lower costs due to local presence• Strong skills mix of business partner and Sage • References• Quicker ROI

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