From Relic to Real-Time: Sage Offers "Rescue Package" to QuickBooks U.S. Customers to Mark Launch of Sage Live

Sage responds to calls from entrepreneurs wanting real-time business insight with simple, no-charge migration program

Sage Summit – NEW ORLEANS (July 28, 2015)Sage is coming to the rescue of QuickBooks® customers in the U.S. by offering them a simple and no-charge way to migrate to revolutionary real-time accounting solution Sage Live.

Sage Live, the new real-time integrated accounting solution, is now available for Small & Medium Businesses in the U.S., and Sage is offering QuickBooks customers a quick and easy way to migrate. QuickBooks customers can simply share a copy of their QuickBooks file, and Sage will load most of the data into Sage Live.

"We know that QuickBooks customers are crying out for one source of live information to help them to run their business," says Santiago Solanas, global CMO, Sage. "Sage Live is available now and makes powerful real-time accounting a reality today. With this offer, we are giving long-suffering QuickBooks customers a simple and no-charge way to join the real-time accounting revolution and energize the success of their business."

QuickBooks customers can visit http://na.sage.com/us/sage-live where they get help moving into Sage Live. They can share their QuickBooks files, and Sage will migrate most of their data at no charge and set up a free trial with the transformative real-time accounting solution.

Developed in partnership with Salesforce, Sage Live is built on the Salesforce1 platform, the world’s number-one enterprise platform as a service (PaaS), which enables small businesses to run completely in the cloud.

With a multidimensional accounting engine, Sage Live gives businesses one real-time source of information by smashing down the walls between front office and back office to create "one office." Now, entrepreneurs, accountants and employees can view their information in real time and work as one team.

Sage Live is available on subscription starting at $15 per month per business user and $30 per month per full user for the Sage Live Essential package.

Visitors to Sage Summit will have the opportunity to demo Sage Live, with product specialists on hand to walk them through the new world of real-time accounting.

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