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Deloitte partners with Sage for SME offering

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29th Jul 2015
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Sage and Deloitte have formed a strategic partnership to deliver insight and agility to small and medium-sized businesses.

The new partnership, revealed at the Sage Summit in New Orleans this week, means it will be easier for businesses to quickly deploy cloud-based business management tools.

The companies have worked together on the rapid deployment of business management solution Sage X3, available both in the cloud and on-premise.

Santiago Solanas, global CMO at Sage, said: “Together, Deloitte and Sage will give small and medium businesses an affordable way to harness enterprise-class resources to help them compete and grow rapidly.

“This partnership is further evidence of our ambition to provide our millions of customers with everything they need to succeed, not just now or tomorrow, but for the life of their company.”

The new collaboration is expected to deliver powerful live insight drawn from businesses’ financial data, giving companies the power to collect, store, manage and interpret data from a variety of business activities.

Kevin Walsh, head of technology consulting at Deloitte, added: “Cloud is an important tool to help companies to grow and scale their businesses faster. This is particularly true in the finance function, where cloud technologies save time and effort and allow data to be accessed 24/7.”

Sage and Deloitte are also exploring how to bring Deloitte’s insight to Sage customers by offering real-time business intelligence (BI) through the software company’s cloud solutions, in particular the recent launch of Sage Live.

The real-time social accounting solution, formerly known as Sage Life, was officially launched in this US this week and will be hitting the UK in September.

Sage Live provides a single live view of business operations and finances via a scoreboard and connects with Salesforce’s app exchange.

Deloitte isn’t the only Big Four accounting firm making a play in the cloud space by partnering up with a small business software supplier.

In March last year KPMG revealed a strategic partnership with cloud accounting application Xero, with the Big Four firm providing online accounting and tax services to small to medium-sized businesses.

Later that year PwC launched its own cloud accounting platform, My Financepartner, specifically aimed at small and medium-sized businesses.

The firm developed the platform last year allowing with the aim of allowing business users to gain access to a PwC accountant, a UK-based finance shared service centre and a suite of management information reports and tools.

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By Duhamel
30th Jul 2015 10:55

Short straw
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By Richard Sergeant
30th Jul 2015 11:53

Battle lines drawn...

But who do you think is going to make success of it?

Since the announcements I can't say I've noticed much about My Financepartner or the KPMG one.

At least the Sage deal makes a little more sense if it's not so fixated on SageOne and a bit more on X3...but still.

Will the behemoth's prevail? I can't see it at the moment

 

 

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