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IRVINE, Calif. (September 12, 2013) – Sage North America today announced that Pinnacle Construction Support Group, Inc. (Pinnacle/CSG), a full-service general contracting, design/build, and construction management firm, uses Sage construction and real estate software to win one-third of its bids. Pinnacle/CSG, headquartered in Tallahassee, Florida, with projects throughout the southeast and in California, uses Sage 300 Construction and Real Estate (formerly Sage Timberline Office) along with Sage Estimating, cloud-based Sage Construction Anywhere, and other Sage business management solutions to streamline operations, boost efficiencies, facilitate communication, and increase productivity.
Pinnacle/CSG implemented Sage 300 nearly eight years ago and has continued to routinely introduce Sage updates and new capabilities to meet the company’s evolving needs. The result is a highly integrated solution that helps run all business areas within the company including accounting, job costing, human resources, business development, estimating and risk management.
“Sage 300 is considered best of breed. It has won multiple awards, and true industry leaders use it,” says Cory McFarlane, chief visionary at Pinnacle/CSG. “And Sage stands behind the product. The support we receive is excellent. Notice that I didn’t say average. I said excellent.”
The integrated functionality helps Pinnacle/CSG boost efficiency and minimizes the paper trail. Sage Construction Anywhere provides the field teams with immediate access to budgets, costs and documents on their iPhones, iPads and tablet PCs. Field teams can also submit and approve time worked in the field using mobile devices, which is then electronically shared with the back office to speed up job costing and payroll processes.
The firm uses Sage Estimating to create bids quickly and accurately. “It helps us to win about one-third of the projects we bid on,” says Jude Rosilien, estimator for Pinnacle/CSG. “We know, and the customer knows, that we are delivering a complete bid.”
“When a contractor can win one-third of its bids, it’s showtime,” adds McFarlane. “We attribute much of our bidding success to Sage Estimating.”
McFarlane also attributes the company’s growth and success to hard work and skill, its ability to think differently and challenge industry trends, and its ability to turn the technology provided by Sage into a true competitive advantage.
“I am excited about the future of working with Sage,” McFarlane concludes. “Every new release includes something that allows this business to work better. We expect Sage to be here into our future, continuing this 360-degree relationship.”
Read more about Pinnacle/CSG’s success with Sage 300 Construction and Real Estate, Sage Construction Anywhere, and Sage Estimating here and watch a video of its story. For more information on construction industry-specific business solutions, visit the website at SageCRE.com, or contact Sage at 800-628-6583 or productinfo.cre@sage.com.
With more than 40 years of industry experience, Sage keeps projects moving with the most job-ready and people-connected solutions for construction and real estate. Its 40,000 customers manage more than 400,000 jobs, 5.7 million subcontracts and 622,000 rental units each year with Sage products, including: Sage Construction Anywhere, Sage 300 Construction and Real Estate (formerly Sage Timberline Office), Sage 300 Trade Specialty (formerly Sage Timberline Enterprise), Sage Estimating (formerly Sage Timberline Estimating), Sage 100 Contractor (formerly Sage Master Builder) and Sage 50 Construction Accounting (formerly Sage Peachtree Premium Accounting for Construction). Follow Sage Construction and Real Estate on Twitter® (www.twitter.com/sageconstruct), Facebook® (www.facebook.com/SageConstructionandRealEstate) and LinkedIn® (http://www.linkedin.com/groups/Sage-Construction-Real-Estate-3729866) and through its Plumb Bob Square Rants blog (blog.sagecre.com).
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Sage Group plc is a leading global provider of business management software to small and medium sized companies, creating greater freedom for them to succeed. Sage understands how and why each business is unique. We provide products and services that suit varying needs, are a pleasure to use and are secure and efficient. Formed in 1981, Sage was floated on the London Stock Exchange in 1989 and entered the FTSE 100 in 1999. Sage has over 6 million customers and more than 13,380 employees in 24 countries covering the UK & Ireland, mainland Europe, North America, South Africa, Australia, Asia and Brazil. For further information please visit: www.sage.com
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Washington (July 22, 2013) – Sage North America announced today the launch of two new business intelligence (BI) tools, providing Sage ERP users with integrated solutions that are intuitive and simple to use. Sage Enterprise Intelligence for Sage ERP X3 and Sage Intelligence Reporting Bundle for Sage 100 ERP, Sage 300 ERP, and Sage 500 ERP join Sage Inventory Advisor (announced in June 2013) to empower small to medium-sized companies to make informed, confident decisions that will help grow their businesses. Sage Inventory Advisor is currently available, while Sage Enterprise Intelligence and Sage Intelligence Reporting Bundle will be available in the fourth quarter of 2013. All three solutions will be previewed at Sage Summit 2013 in Washington, D.C., July 21 – July 26.
“To stay competitive, businesses need ways to increase sales and improve efficiency and profitability. Better, more concise insight into their operations can help inform business leaders with meaningful information to make confident decisions for long-term success,” said Joe Langner, executive vice president and general manager of mid-market solutions, Sage North America. “Our intelligence tools enable businesses to make faster, more accurate course corrections, unveil new opportunities and adapt to the changing market and business landscape with ease and proficiency.”
Sage Enterprise Intelligence
The tight and secure integration of Sage Enterprise Intelligence with Sage ERP X3 ensures data integrity and the reliability of critical business information. Through a partnership with Tangerine Software, Sage Enterprise Intelligence provides business users with extensive self-service BI capabilities in an intuitive web interface. It can be used out of the box in all areas of business, for budget management and control, sales analysis, inventory control and analysis, quality control (purchasing, production, customer service) or productivity analysis. It is designed for business users who value simplicity, elegant graphical analytics and a variety of options to share views in web portals or mobile devices.
"Our agreement with Sage recognizes the customer experience that makes Sage Enterprise Intelligence so unique with a true self-service BI solution that any business user can easily access and use," states Greg Brown, president of Tangerine Software. "It will bring the full power of BI, mobility and big data processing to Sage mid-market customers. We look forward to working closely with Sage to accelerate innovation for Sage customers, in North America as well as globally."
Sage Enterprise Intelligence goes beyond spreadsheets and report writers to provide an intuitive, unified view of integrated data from various sources. It enables every business user, executive and manager to create a view of data that is meaningful to their role and to analyze data with complete drill down, drill through and slice and dice analytics that simplify the view and use of business intelligence.
Sage Intelligence Reporting Bundle
Available for Sage 100 ERP, Sage 300 ERP and Sage 500 ERP, the Sage Intelligence Reporting Bundle empowers companies to quickly and easily obtain the information required to improve their operations and reporting across the entire business. With the Bundle, companies can experience more efficiency when designing, preparing and running reports. Its common Microsoft Excel interface makes the solution easy to use.
Sage Intelligence is the more natural and more cost-effective option for Sage ERP users to manipulate real-time ERP data, with the convenience of a familiar, Excel-based interface to quickly slice and dice financial data, analyze risks, adjust forecasts and deliver up-to-the-minute reports using the templates provided. Businesses can connect almost any database for their reporting needs to achieve consolidated and automated reporting.
Included with the Sage Intelligence Reporting Bundle for Sage 100 and 300 ERP is a profitability dashboard that enables businesses to easily identify the profitability of customers, products and salespersons based on weekly, monthly, quarterly or annual segments. This allows them to better manage costs and develop marketing strategies accordingly.
With the profitability dashboard, companies can:
The Bundle also includes unlimited licenses for report manager, report designer, viewers (to drill down into reports), and connectors (to consolidate reports from any Sage or non-Sage database).
Sage Inventory Advisor
Sage Inventory Advisor, an affordable cloud solution that integrates with Sage ERP systems to provide companies with a daily diagnostic of inventory, reduce time spent on forecasts, and resolve the optimal investment required to achieve target fill. As a cloud-based subscription service, Sage Inventory Advisor is fast to implement and accessible in a web browser and on mobile devices. With powerful forecasting and planning capabilities, Sage Inventory Advisor is currently available for those businesses running Sage 100 ERP, Sage 300 ERP, Sage 500 ERP and Sage ERP X3.
Sage Group plc is a leading global provider of business management software to small and medium sized companies, creating greater freedom for them to succeed. Sage understands how and why each business is unique. We provide products and services that suit varying needs, are a pleasure to use and are secure and efficient. Formed in 1981, Sage was floated on the London Stock Exchange in 1989 and entered the FTSE 100 in 1999. Sage has over 6 million customers and more than 13,380 employees in 24 countries covering the UK & Ireland, mainland Europe, North America, South Africa, Australia, Asia and Brazil. For further information please visit www.sage.com
For more information about Sage in North America, please visit the company website at NA.Sage.com. Follow Sage North America on Facebook, Facebook.com/SageNorthAmerica, and Twitter, Twitter.com/SageNAmerica
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Melody Chalaban Sage North America 949-754-3503 Melody.Chalaban@Sage.com