New Sage 300 ERP 2012 Product Update Significantly Improves on Customer Experience

IRVINE, CA--(Marketwire - Mar 5, 2013) - Sage North America announced today the availability of Product Update 1 for Sage 300 ERP 2012, a substantial product update introducing new features and functionality to help businesses be smarter and more efficient. It is currently available for those businesses running Sage 300 ERP 2012. Sage 300 ERP is the most comprehensive financial suite by Sage for midsized and smaller businesses looking to connect all operations enterprisewide and access intelligent insight that drives global growth and profitability.

The Sage 300 ERP Payroll module has added over 20 new enhancements that simplify payroll processing and improve payroll reporting and compliance. Companies that use Sage 300 ERP Payroll for in-house processing can now provide their employees with access to Sage Source, an easy-to-use, personalized connected service. Sage Source publishes information to the cloud, enabling employees to sign in, view, and print their payroll history. The enhanced Payroll module also includes Sage Federal and State eFiling and Reporting, a connected service that provides free, up-to-date and automatically populated forms that can be printed and mailed or used to e-file for a very low fee.

"Integrated payroll processing is an important component of Sage 300 ERP. With the new cloud connected services, businesses can further reduce their cost of managing payroll by allowing employees to view pay history online," said Erik Kaas, vice president of product management for Sage 300 ERP. "And with Sage eFiling, companies not only save time and money filing W-2s and 1099s, they can also go green by eliminating the need to print and mail forms."

The Sage 300 ERP Product Update further refines the user experience with improvements in Sage 300 ERP Intelligence Reporting. The new Report Designer Add-in allows users to take full control of all the design aspects of their financial reporting and takes the complexity out of designing financial reports inside Microsoft Excel®. The Add-in provides drag-and-drop Excel financial formulas, which communicate with a new In-Memory processing engine for enhanced performance and flexibility.

Improvements to the integration of Sage 300 ERP with Sage CRM includes easy access to accurate and up-to-date inventory information directly from within Sage CRM as well as the availability of Sage CRM on iPhones to helps users maximize productivity while on the go.

For full details on Sage 300 ERP 2012 and this Product Update, please visit: http://www.Sage300ERP.com/2012Release

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