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Sage Previews Cloud-based Live

 Doug LaBahn, SageInitially called Sage Life, the product formerly known as Sage Live received its biggest preview to date at this week's Sage Summit conference in New Orleans. Aimed at small and medium-sized businesses, the cloud-based package, expected to be introduced next month, was described in closed sessions to members of the Sage reseller channel. Sage also revealed pricing for three different editions.

Life loosely targets the same size companies that have used Sage 50 (the former Peachtree) and the lower end of the Sage 100 market. It is built on the Salesforce.com platform and the company bills the product with this phrase: "The Office of the Future Is Here."

Attendees say that the product was product via PowerPoint slides and that the application itself was not actually run in a demo by Doug LaBahan, Sage's global VP of product marketing

The editions start with the Essentials package which provides financials for one company; single-country compliance; real-time scoreboard and reporting. It also supports mobile and social technology, although those details were not immediately available, and it comes with a basic support plan. Five business users and two full users cost $1,620 per year. The Standard edition offers financials for up to 10 companies and up to five designated users. That seven-person configuration is priced at $2,400 per year.

Premium offers up to 100 companies and multi-currency features and bumps support up to the Premium level for $3,300 per year for those seven users. One attendee said the definition of business and full users was not clearly spelled out.

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Bob Scott has provided information to the tax and accounting community since 1991, first as technology editor of Accounting Today, and from 1997 through 2009 as editor of its sister publication, Accounting Technology. He is known throughout the industry for his depth of knowledge and for his high journalistic standards.  Scott has made frequent appearances as a speaker, moderator and panelist and events serving tax and accounting professionals. He  has a strong background in computer journalism as an editor with two former trade publications, Computer+Software News and MIS Week and spent several years with weekly and daily newspapers in Morris County New Jersey prior to that.  A graduate of Indiana University with a degree in journalism, Bob is a native of Madison, Ind
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