Could your business make more money leveraging the cloud?

Drive business growth and get ahead of your competition

Are you using the cloud?

• How many of you in the room have a smartphone?

• How many of you have checked your email on your smartphone while you’ve been here today?

• How many of you have been asked to make a decision based on the information you read?

What is the hybrid Sage Data Cloud?

Hybrid extends your current Sage ERP

ERP

This conversation is about growing from here

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Choices arebeing madeabout cloud and mobile Will those

decisionshave impact for your business?

Business isgrowingand changing

More than 50% of small and medium-sized businesses are trailing their competitors or at risk of falling behind

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10%13% Far AheadFar Behind

or Behind41%

One of several large Sage studies. 1,100 company owners and leaders reported their companies’ performance

How well is your company competing this year?

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Far Ahead of our competitors

Ahead of our competitors

About Even with our competitors

Behind our competitors

Far Behind our competitors

Our company is… …at winning

and keeping customers

Global API

Significant differences between the top and bottom performing companies

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Ratio of sales and service employees to total employees

Level of adoption of cloud and mobile services lower

5 out 10

13%

Global API

7 out 10

higher

10% Far AheadFar Behind or Behind

A powerful new Cloud Maturity Curve emerged from our studies

95%

62% Owners/Leadersare avid mobile users

Owners/Leadersuse mobility for business

SMB

Ado

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ate

**Sage Survey (m=993)

Indicates personal adoptionHigh

Low

Personal use provides a foundation for Company adoption

95%

62%

57%

Owners/Leadersare avid mobile users

Company usescloud file sharing

Company accepts payments anywhere*

Company usesconnected cloud services

Owners/Leadersuse mobility for business

11%

7%

SMB

Ado

ptio

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ate

**Sage Survey (m=993)High

Low

Indicates personal adoption

And, only a few companies have gone ‘all the way’

95%

62%

57%

Owners/Leadersare avid mobile users

Company usescloud file sharing

Companyaccepts payments

anywhere*

Company usesconnected cloud

services

Owners/Leadersuse mobility for business

11%

3.7%1.4%

7%

Company relies on a cloud ERP/accounting

system

SMB

Ado

ptio

n R

ate

**Sage Survey (m=993)

Company hashosted accounting/ERP

system

High

Low

Indicates hosted or cloud

So, what does this mean to my company?

*mobile and traditional credit card acceptance **Sage Survey (m=993)

90% of companies are seeking to extendtheir solutions

A close up on the Sage Data Cloud

**Sage Survey (m=993)

Focus on employees groups that are ready now.

You might say “our company is not ready for this”

Focus on services with “easy to calculate ROI”

On the benefit side –pick something easily measured

$40 per month 1 extra sale 

per month at $89

You might say “we don’t have the budget to do this”

On the cost side – pick services that have a well contained impact

So, should you go all the way to the top of the curve?

We found that the speed of moving entirely to the cloud varies by industry

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Company relies on a cloud ERP/accounting

system

Company hashosted accounting/ERP

system

Services 5.5%

Retail 2.9%

Manufacturing 2.1%

Distribution 1.4%

Construction 1.4%

Adoption Rate

When should you move faster along the cloud maturity curve?

Open or Move Locations1.4x

New Owners or Management2.4x

Expand Operations In A New Country6x

New Competitor Enters Your Market1.4x

On premise Service Disruptions1.2x

Sale Tax Audits0.9x

Government Customers0.8x

Grow Imports or Exports0.5x

Reasons why companies move quickly…

…and when they move slowly

Sales

Marketing

Service and Sales

Accounting and Payroll

CEO

Production/ManufacturingWarehouse

Solutions to help you grow and capture new opportunities

Sage Mobile Sales

Sage CRM

Sage Billing and Payment

Sage Intelligence

Sage Inventory Advisor

Sage Payments

Sage Time

Sage Inventory Advisor

ISV solutions

ISV solutions

ISV solutions

ISV solutions

Sage CRM

Sage CRM

Sage Mobile Sales

Sage CRM

ISV solutions

Where are you headed?

*mobile and traditional credit card acceptance **Sage Survey (m=993)

90% of companies are seeking to extendtheir solutions

Helping you, win, serve and keep customers

Questions?

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