Just a note to all customers/prospects/blog readers I wish you all very happy xmas and very prosperous 2010! My thoughts for 2010 are Sage will need to start innovating at the entry level (Sage 50) or face further slow erosion of their customer base to the plethora of online software-as-a-service (SaaS) providers. Sage 50 will change very little until 2012 with the advent of the MySQL version. For technical people it maybe a step forward but for the typical user it wont make much difference. Sage 200 continues to do very well in the mid-market, in fact I have been offered more work for 200 than any of the other products. Sage 1000 (Line 500 + CRM) slowly evolves with Sage now de-coupling CRM from Line 500 to give customers the choice of which CRM to use. Sadly it will still be a poorly integrated affair comprising of two completely separate products. That said there is little competition in this market space, only perhaps dynamics but even that is comprised of two different products.

I blogged about this on my other blog over at Sage Line 500 regarding the official UK launch of a new Sage product called ERP X3. Now it is unclear where this product will sit in the range, probably between Sage 200 and Sage 1000 but thats yet to be confirmed, but once I do know I will let you all know! For mid-range customers this *might* offer a better fully integrated CRM and financials solution and this is touted as a fully web enabled solution.