Initially called Sage Life, the product formerly known as Sage Live received its biggest preview to date at this week's 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.
