Comments on: Netsuite vs Sage: Big discounts are the “greatest hits” albums of the ERP industry http://www.s-consult.com/2009/03/05/netsuite-vs-sage-big-discounts-are-the-greatest-hits-albums-of-the-erp-industry/ Sage MAS 90 and MAS 200 ERP Accounting Software Consultants Sat, 04 Feb 2012 21:39:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Google Secret Loophole http://www.s-consult.com/2009/03/05/netsuite-vs-sage-big-discounts-are-the-greatest-hits-albums-of-the-erp-industry/comment-page-1/#comment-910 Google Secret Loophole Tue, 29 Jun 2010 14:25:28 +0000 http://www.s-consult.com/?p=1140#comment-910 well, observers are saying that this is a strong opportunity for MSPs who may be ...... Amazon pricing favors! well, observers are saying that this is a strong opportunity for MSPs who may be …… Amazon pricing favors!

]]> By: Gary Feldman http://www.s-consult.com/2009/03/05/netsuite-vs-sage-big-discounts-are-the-greatest-hits-albums-of-the-erp-industry/comment-page-1/#comment-663 Gary Feldman Wed, 18 Mar 2009 16:38:42 +0000 http://www.s-consult.com/?p=1140#comment-663 Why not have the best of both worlds. The new Sage Extended Enterprise includes CRM (with some campaign management), financial accounting and eBusiness Manager eCommerce and can all be offered as a service. You can host with a partner like I-Business Network (<a href="http://www.i-bn.net)" target="_blank">www.i-bn.net)</a> where your recurring cost is much lower (hosting fees and maintenance) than a subscription to an online service. Our uptime over the past 10 years is 99.99% and you get the 20+ years of Sage Software development. Why not have the best of both worlds. The new Sage Extended Enterprise includes CRM (with some campaign management), financial accounting and eBusiness Manager eCommerce and can all be offered as a service. You can host with a partner like I-Business Network (http://www.i-bn.net) where your recurring cost is much lower (hosting fees and maintenance) than a subscription to an online service. Our uptime over the past 10 years is 99.99% and you get the 20+ years of Sage Software development.

]]> By: Gary Feldman http://www.s-consult.com/2009/03/05/netsuite-vs-sage-big-discounts-are-the-greatest-hits-albums-of-the-erp-industry/comment-page-1/#comment-1075 Gary Feldman Wed, 18 Mar 2009 16:38:00 +0000 http://www.s-consult.com/?p=1140#comment-1075 Why not have the best of both worlds. The new Sage Extended Enterprise includes CRM (with some campaign management), financial accounting and eBusiness Manager eCommerce and can all be offered as a service. You can host with a partner like I-Business Network (<a href="http://www.i-bn.net)" rel="nofollow">www.i-bn.net)</a> where your recurring cost is much lower (hosting fees and maintenance) than a subscription to an online service. Our uptime over the past 10 years is 99.99% and you get the 20+ years of Sage Software development. Why not have the best of both worlds. The new Sage Extended Enterprise includes CRM (with some campaign management), financial accounting and eBusiness Manager eCommerce and can all be offered as a service. You can host with a partner like I-Business Network (http://www.i-bn.net) where your recurring cost is much lower (hosting fees and maintenance) than a subscription to an online service. Our uptime over the past 10 years is 99.99% and you get the 20+ years of Sage Software development.

]]> By: Paul Lima http://www.s-consult.com/2009/03/05/netsuite-vs-sage-big-discounts-are-the-greatest-hits-albums-of-the-erp-industry/comment-page-1/#comment-661 Paul Lima Tue, 17 Mar 2009 16:14:50 +0000 http://www.s-consult.com/?p=1140#comment-661 The Sage Products are indeed terrific solutions for many businesses. In full disclosure, any my company, Lima Consulting Group is also a NetSuite implementation Consultancy and like Eric Snyder (from my competitor, Intacct - also a terrific solution) I wanted to add a few thoughts to this very healthy topic. I've converted several clients from the MAS90 solution into NetSuite and ultimately they purchase NetSuite for two reasons. The first is that in an effort to focus on core business processes, they generally do not want to maintain the servers in their local environment with the associated costs for human capital required to maintain the product and infrastructure. Mission critical applications can't be down and when you look at <a href="http://status.netsuite.com/status_en_US.html" target="_blank">http://status.netsuite.com/status_en_US.html</a> you can see that NetSuite's uptime over the past year is 99.96%. The second and more compelling reason our clients have decided to migrate from MAS90 is because they want an integrated Suite that combines CRM, e-mail marketing software, E-commerce with their Financial Accounting Software. The reporting solution is very sophisticated and quite easy to use. NetSuite is built in Oracle and that means that even small and mid-size businesses can have scale and leverage on one platform that continues to improve every quarter. This past week NetSuite began rolling out their routine improvements of the software and you can read about all of the enhancements here: <a href="https://system.netsuite.com/help/helpcenter/en_US/Output/Help/AdditionalResources/WhatsNew/ReleaseNotes_2009.1.0/Version2008.1ReleaseNotes.html" target="_blank">https://system.netsuite.com/help/helpcenter/en_US...</a> The Sage Products are indeed terrific solutions for many businesses. In full disclosure, any my company, Lima Consulting Group is also a NetSuite implementation Consultancy and like Eric Snyder (from my competitor, Intacct – also a terrific solution) I wanted to add a few thoughts to this very healthy topic.

I've converted several clients from the MAS90 solution into NetSuite and ultimately they purchase NetSuite for two reasons. The first is that in an effort to focus on core business processes, they generally do not want to maintain the servers in their local environment with the associated costs for human capital required to maintain the product and infrastructure. Mission critical applications can't be down and when you look at http://status.netsuite.com/status_en_US.html you can see that NetSuite's uptime over the past year is 99.96%. The second and more compelling reason our clients have decided to migrate from MAS90 is because they want an integrated Suite that combines CRM, e-mail marketing software, E-commerce with their Financial Accounting Software. The reporting solution is very sophisticated and quite easy to use. NetSuite is built in Oracle and that means that even small and mid-size businesses can have scale and leverage on one platform that continues to improve every quarter.

This past week NetSuite began rolling out their routine improvements of the software and you can read about all of the enhancements here: https://system.netsuite.com/help/helpcenter/en_US…

]]> By: Paul Lima http://www.s-consult.com/2009/03/05/netsuite-vs-sage-big-discounts-are-the-greatest-hits-albums-of-the-erp-industry/comment-page-1/#comment-1074 Paul Lima Tue, 17 Mar 2009 16:14:00 +0000 http://www.s-consult.com/?p=1140#comment-1074 The Sage Products are indeed terrific solutions for many businesses. In full disclosure, any my company, Lima Consulting Group is also a NetSuite implementation Consultancy and like Eric Snyder (from my competitor, Intacct - also a terrific solution) I wanted to add a few thoughts to this very healthy topic. I've converted several clients from the MAS90 solution into NetSuite and ultimately they purchase NetSuite for two reasons. The first is that in an effort to focus on core business processes, they generally do not want to maintain the servers in their local environment with the associated costs for human capital required to maintain the product and infrastructure. Mission critical applications can't be down and when you look at <a href="http://status.netsuite.com/status_en_US.html" rel="nofollow">http://status.netsuite.com/status_en_US.html</a> you can see that NetSuite's uptime over the past year is 99.96%. The second and more compelling reason our clients have decided to migrate from MAS90 is because they want an integrated Suite that combines CRM, e-mail marketing software, E-commerce with their Financial Accounting Software. The reporting solution is very sophisticated and quite easy to use. NetSuite is built in Oracle and that means that even small and mid-size businesses can have scale and leverage on one platform that continues to improve every quarter. This past week NetSuite began rolling out their routine improvements of the software and you can read about all of the enhancements here: <a href="https://system.netsuite.com/help/helpcenter/en_US/Output/Help/AdditionalResources/WhatsNew/ReleaseNotes_2009.1.0/Version2008.1ReleaseNotes.html" rel="nofollow">https://system.netsuite.com/help/helpcenter/en_US...</a> The Sage Products are indeed terrific solutions for many businesses. In full disclosure, any my company, Lima Consulting Group is also a NetSuite implementation Consultancy and like Eric Snyder (from my competitor, Intacct – also a terrific solution) I wanted to add a few thoughts to this very healthy topic.

I've converted several clients from the MAS90 solution into NetSuite and ultimately they purchase NetSuite for two reasons. The first is that in an effort to focus on core business processes, they generally do not want to maintain the servers in their local environment with the associated costs for human capital required to maintain the product and infrastructure. Mission critical applications can't be down and when you look at http://status.netsuite.com/status_en_US.html you can see that NetSuite's uptime over the past year is 99.96%. The second and more compelling reason our clients have decided to migrate from MAS90 is because they want an integrated Suite that combines CRM, e-mail marketing software, E-commerce with their Financial Accounting Software. The reporting solution is very sophisticated and quite easy to use. NetSuite is built in Oracle and that means that even small and mid-size businesses can have scale and leverage on one platform that continues to improve every quarter.

This past week NetSuite began rolling out their routine improvements of the software and you can read about all of the enhancements here: https://system.netsuite.com/help/helpcenter/en_US…

]]> By: eric snyder http://www.s-consult.com/2009/03/05/netsuite-vs-sage-big-discounts-are-the-greatest-hits-albums-of-the-erp-industry/comment-page-1/#comment-628 eric snyder Thu, 05 Mar 2009 23:27:45 +0000 http://www.s-consult.com/?p=1140#comment-628 No More Servers Ever, thank you for the plug. (Disclaimer) I am Eric Snyder, and I'm with Intacct. I manage Channel Sales in the western region here. This is not an advertisement, but a stream of conscious thought, and I'm looking forward to feedback from all. The advantages that Netsuite describes in its press release for any business moving from on-premise to on-demand software are absolutely spot-on. No hardware or software, never needing an update or upgrade, 99.9+% uptime SLA's and realtime visibility and control all exist with other SaaS vendors. Netsuite happens to do business differently than other vendors, choosing mostly to go to customers directly rather than through and with a supportive channel. They aren't just trying to take-away Sage customers, but customers from any mid-range accounting solution. It makes sense and it's not desperate. That said, a smart or prudent buyer of this promotion will not likely call Sage or their VAR for their opinion on the matter. They probably won't demand from Netsuite that they agree to an annual price cap, nor read the fine print with respect to their data. They will just leave. SaaS as a software delivery method is growing... Salesforce.com, Netsuite, and Intacct, too. The word is out and with the economy the way it is, being able to pay "as you go," reduce IT strain, and get more done with less, makes a lot of sense to customers. I'm looking forward to seeing what the accounting channel does with SaaS, as I really think the best is yet to come. No More Servers Ever, thank you for the plug.

(Disclaimer) I am Eric Snyder, and I'm with Intacct. I manage Channel Sales in the western region here. This is not an advertisement, but a stream of conscious thought, and I'm looking forward to feedback from all.

The advantages that Netsuite describes in its press release for any business moving from on-premise to on-demand software are absolutely spot-on. No hardware or software, never needing an update or upgrade, 99.9+% uptime SLA's and realtime visibility and control all exist with other SaaS vendors. Netsuite happens to do business differently than other vendors, choosing mostly to go to customers directly rather than through and with a supportive channel. They aren't just trying to take-away Sage customers, but customers from any mid-range accounting solution. It makes sense and it's not desperate.

That said, a smart or prudent buyer of this promotion will not likely call Sage or their VAR for their opinion on the matter. They probably won't demand from Netsuite that they agree to an annual price cap, nor read the fine print with respect to their data. They will just leave.

SaaS as a software delivery method is growing… Salesforce.com, Netsuite, and Intacct, too. The word is out and with the economy the way it is, being able to pay "as you go," reduce IT strain, and get more done with less, makes a lot of sense to customers. I'm looking forward to seeing what the accounting channel does with SaaS, as I really think the best is yet to come.

]]> By: eric snyder http://www.s-consult.com/2009/03/05/netsuite-vs-sage-big-discounts-are-the-greatest-hits-albums-of-the-erp-industry/comment-page-1/#comment-1073 eric snyder Thu, 05 Mar 2009 23:27:00 +0000 http://www.s-consult.com/?p=1140#comment-1073 No More Servers Ever, thank you for the plug. (Disclaimer) I am Eric Snyder, and I'm with Intacct. I manage Channel Sales in the western region here. This is not an advertisement, but a stream of conscious thought, and I'm looking forward to feedback from all. The advantages that Netsuite describes in its press release for any business moving from on-premise to on-demand software are absolutely spot-on. No hardware or software, never needing an update or upgrade, 99.9+% uptime SLA's and realtime visibility and control all exist with other SaaS vendors. Netsuite happens to do business differently than other vendors, choosing mostly to go to customers directly rather than through and with a supportive channel. They aren't just trying to take-away Sage customers, but customers from any mid-range accounting solution. It makes sense and it's not desperate. That said, a smart or prudent buyer of this promotion will not likely call Sage or their VAR for their opinion on the matter. They probably won't demand from Netsuite that they agree to an annual price cap, nor read the fine print with respect to their data. They will just leave. SaaS as a software delivery method is growing... Salesforce.com, Netsuite, and Intacct, too. The word is out and with the economy the way it is, being able to pay "as you go," reduce IT strain, and get more done with less, makes a lot of sense to customers. I'm looking forward to seeing what the accounting channel does with SaaS, as I really think the best is yet to come. No More Servers Ever, thank you for the plug.

(Disclaimer) I am Eric Snyder, and I'm with Intacct. I manage Channel Sales in the western region here. This is not an advertisement, but a stream of conscious thought, and I'm looking forward to feedback from all.

The advantages that Netsuite describes in its press release for any business moving from on-premise to on-demand software are absolutely spot-on. No hardware or software, never needing an update or upgrade, 99.9+% uptime SLA's and realtime visibility and control all exist with other SaaS vendors. Netsuite happens to do business differently than other vendors, choosing mostly to go to customers directly rather than through and with a supportive channel. They aren't just trying to take-away Sage customers, but customers from any mid-range accounting solution. It makes sense and it's not desperate.

That said, a smart or prudent buyer of this promotion will not likely call Sage or their VAR for their opinion on the matter. They probably won't demand from Netsuite that they agree to an annual price cap, nor read the fine print with respect to their data. They will just leave.

SaaS as a software delivery method is growing… Salesforce.com, Netsuite, and Intacct, too. The word is out and with the economy the way it is, being able to pay "as you go," reduce IT strain, and get more done with less, makes a lot of sense to customers. I'm looking forward to seeing what the accounting channel does with SaaS, as I really think the best is yet to come.

]]> By: NoMore Servers Ever! http://www.s-consult.com/2009/03/05/netsuite-vs-sage-big-discounts-are-the-greatest-hits-albums-of-the-erp-industry/comment-page-1/#comment-627 NoMore Servers Ever! Thu, 05 Mar 2009 21:09:32 +0000 http://www.s-consult.com/?p=1140#comment-627 There are other SaaS vendors than NetSuite out there that are nice people, don't bait an switch, allow for easy data retrieval upon exit (if you ever want to leave) and have US based support and are launching new features constantly...check out Intacct. <a href="http://www.intacct.com" target="_blank">www.intacct.com</a> There are other SaaS vendors than NetSuite out there that are nice people, don't bait an switch, allow for easy data retrieval upon exit (if you ever want to leave) and have US based support and are launching new features constantly…check out Intacct.

http://www.intacct.com

]]> By: NoMore Servers Ever! http://www.s-consult.com/2009/03/05/netsuite-vs-sage-big-discounts-are-the-greatest-hits-albums-of-the-erp-industry/comment-page-1/#comment-1072 NoMore Servers Ever! Thu, 05 Mar 2009 21:09:00 +0000 http://www.s-consult.com/?p=1140#comment-1072 There are other SaaS vendors than NetSuite out there that are nice people, don't bait an switch, allow for easy data retrieval upon exit (if you ever want to leave) and have US based support and are launching new features constantly...check out Intacct. <a href="http://www.intacct.com" rel="nofollow">www.intacct.com</a> There are other SaaS vendors than NetSuite out there that are nice people, don't bait an switch, allow for easy data retrieval upon exit (if you ever want to leave) and have US based support and are launching new features constantly…check out Intacct.

http://www.intacct.com

]]> By: Wayne Schulz http://www.s-consult.com/2009/03/05/netsuite-vs-sage-big-discounts-are-the-greatest-hits-albums-of-the-erp-industry/comment-page-1/#comment-626 Wayne Schulz Thu, 05 Mar 2009 16:41:28 +0000 http://www.s-consult.com/?p=1140#comment-626 I'm not quite sure why this 50% offer got so much attention because it's been done before (Netsuite made a similar offer against Salesforce and SAP). As I said above, I'd be surprised if anyone off the street couldn't get 50% off on the initial sign up. I'm not quite sure why this 50% offer got so much attention because it's been done before (Netsuite made a similar offer against Salesforce and SAP).

As I said above, I'd be surprised if anyone off the street couldn't get 50% off on the initial sign up.

]]> By: Wayne Schulz http://www.s-consult.com/2009/03/05/netsuite-vs-sage-big-discounts-are-the-greatest-hits-albums-of-the-erp-industry/comment-page-1/#comment-1071 Wayne Schulz Thu, 05 Mar 2009 16:41:00 +0000 http://www.s-consult.com/?p=1140#comment-1071 I'm not quite sure why this 50% offer got so much attention because it's been done before (Netsuite made a similar offer against Salesforce and SAP). As I said above, I'd be surprised if anyone off the street couldn't get 50% off on the initial sign up. I'm not quite sure why this 50% offer got so much attention because it's been done before (Netsuite made a similar offer against Salesforce and SAP).

As I said above, I'd be surprised if anyone off the street couldn't get 50% off on the initial sign up.

]]> By: Todd http://www.s-consult.com/2009/03/05/netsuite-vs-sage-big-discounts-are-the-greatest-hits-albums-of-the-erp-industry/comment-page-1/#comment-625 Todd Thu, 05 Mar 2009 16:28:21 +0000 http://www.s-consult.com/?p=1140#comment-625 Nice to see. We just signed with Sage, never even looked at a hosted solution. Netsuite didn't bother to reply to our RFP. Nice to see. We just signed with Sage, never even looked at a hosted solution.

Netsuite didn't bother to reply to our RFP.

]]> By: Todd http://www.s-consult.com/2009/03/05/netsuite-vs-sage-big-discounts-are-the-greatest-hits-albums-of-the-erp-industry/comment-page-1/#comment-1070 Todd Thu, 05 Mar 2009 16:28:00 +0000 http://www.s-consult.com/?p=1140#comment-1070 Nice to see. We just signed with Sage, never even looked at a hosted solution. Netsuite didn't bother to reply to our RFP. Nice to see. We just signed with Sage, never even looked at a hosted solution.

Netsuite didn't bother to reply to our RFP.

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