Sage entered the Russian market: here represents the interests of the company as the exclusive partner of Energy Consulting. For last several months of Sage ERP X3 it was localized for the Russian market taking into account the local legislation so now a system can support local accounting and tax standards.
The CEO of Energy Consulting Mikhail Ponomarev says that "Sage ERP X3 is one of world leaders in a segment for medium business and larger companies". According to Gartner, Sage the third largest provider of ERP solutions from 8% of shares in the market of solutions for medium business.
Economic potential of medium business grows in Russia thanks to the serious competition, Ponomarev says. Also process optimization and cost control are the highest priority for most of top managers. Besides, system implementations at several thousand clients in the world allowed to acquire the best practices which I can be applied in Russia now.
Enterprise resource planning of Sage ERP H3postepenno comes out in market leaders after the company released the version of Sage ERP X3 v6 in January, 2010. At the moment a system is available in 53 countries, 300 new clients are engaged in implementation and adaptation of a product. Thus, the number of the companies users around the world reached 3 thousand from 165 thousand licenses.
According to Jeremy Vaterman, the managing director of Softline Accpac, the Sage ERP X3 system actively develops in a number of regions among which there is, for example, South Africa. Creators position a system as a best tool for mid-size enterprises which need effective solution for cost reduction, besides simple in use.
The main functionality of the Sage ERP X3 system includes analytics and the reporting, financial statements, subsystems of management control and operational management by the company. The latest version of V6.1 contains SAFE X3 WAS (Web Application Server) and web services, including for creation of portals and joint work. The next version of a system will be provided next quarter and Enterprise 2.0, BI services and Sage Enterprise Webtop will contain means.
The international community of ERP X3 developers at the moment consists their 500 people and 1.5 thousand external consultants to the environment of business integrators and partners of the company. Christophe Vanackère heads a command. According to him "ambitions of the company consist in aggressive penetration in the market all 53 countries of presence".