About Sage

Sage provides business software, services and support to small and medium sized businesses. Whilst our heritage is in the small business market we also have the experience and expertise to meet the needs of specific industries and larger organisations.

We are a global company with 6.1 million customers, over 13,400 employees and more than 25 years of experience working with small and medium sized businesses. However, despite our global reach we have built our success on understanding and meeting the needs of customers in their local markets. Therefore the majority of our products and services are developed and supported locally. This ensures we provide a choice of high quality products and services which are relevant to our customers, use the most appropriate technology and are supported by local experts.

We provide an extensive range of solutions which make it easier for our customers to manage their business processes. Whether it be our financial software enabling better cash flow management, our CRM software helping to build profitable customer relationships or our HR and Payroll offerings being used to improve employee performance and ensure legislative compliance, our software and services equip our customers to run their businesses more effectively and overcome the challenges of today’s business environment.

When faced with these challenges businesses need software suppliers in whom they can trust and with whom they can build real relationships for the long-term. What makes Sage different is our people, our complete dedication to doing the right thing by the customer and our commitment to support them to the very best of our ability. Regardless of where we are in the world, Sage’s people are guided by five key principles of trust, integrity, innovation, simplicity and agility as these attributes will enable us to best serve all our customers and continue to deliver our success.

Sage History

The Sage Group plc is a remarkable local and global success story. Founded in 1981 in North East England, we’ve grown to become a world-leading provider of business management software and services. We employ more than 13,400 people in a global operation that, in the year ended 30th September 2009, generated revenues of £1,439.3m.

Like the city of Newcastle Upon Tyne in which we were established, Sage is fresh-thinking, dynamic, friendly and professional. The business has been built around innovation. We started in a local printing works on Newcastle’s Quayside when entrepreneur, David Goldman, was seeking to automate the print estimating process in his business. He worked with a team of Newcastle University students who, as part of a wider project, developed software to manage both print estimating and basic accounting. David realised other companies like his own would benefit from the software and formed a company to begin selling it. As desktop PCs became widespread so the Sage range grew and our business went from strength to strength. We floated on the London Stock Exchange in 1989 and in 1999 we entered the FTSE 100 where we remain.

Today 6.1 million businesses worldwide rely on Sage to help them manage their key business processes. We are still heavily focused on innovation and entrepreneurship in our people. We have a locally-focused strategy to ensure local ownership and empowered decisionmaking relevant to our customers in each marketplace in which we operate.