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SAGE LAUNCHES SAGE 50CLOUD
PASTEL WITH MICROSOFT OFFICE 365
Sage, a market leader
in cloud business
management solutions,
has advanced its Sage
Business Cloud product
strategy with the South
African launch of Sage
50cloud Pastel.
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age, a market leader in cloud business
management solutions, has advanced
its Sage Business Cloud product
strategy with the South African launch of
Sage 50cloud Pastel.
It combines the power and productivity of
the Sage Pastel desktop solution with best-
in-class cloud collaboration and productivity
tools through integration with Microsoft
Office 365 Business Premium. Office 365 gives customers more freedom to
collaborate in the cloud, more control with
simple, automated backups and improved
productivity. Features in the latest version of
Sage 50cloud Pastel include:
Representing the next generation of Sage
Pastel, Sage 50cloud Pastel with Microsoft • Automated data backups via OneDrive – no
need to remember to do manual backups
• Quick and easy signup to bank feeds.
Businesses can have their latest bank
statement delivered automatically to Sage
50Cloud, saving time and removing the
need to manually capture transactions
• Sage Business Cloud Payments gives a
business’ customers safe and easy ways
to pay using a range of simple, secure,
and reliable payment solutions
• Automated sync of Microsoft Outlook
contacts and Sage 50cloud contacts – save
time and stop toggling between systems
• Ditch the paper and never lose a receipt
again by photographing expenses
and other paperwork, saving them to
OneDrive and posting transactions to
Sage 50cloud
• At-a-glance views of end to end business
performance with the smart, intuitive
business performance dashboard
Pieter Bensch, Executive Vice President,
Africa and Middle East at Sage
www.intelligentcio.com
Sage 50cloud Pastel users can reduce
their costs by adopting Microsoft Office
365. They will not need to worry about
downtime, will always have access to the
latest version of Microsoft’s productivity
software, and their up-to-the-second
business information in the cloud.
“Your business is with you, wherever you
need to be, giving you a real-time view of
your accounts and the ability to collaborate
remotely, while all your data is automatically
backed up and secured in the cloud,” said
Pieter Bensch, Executive Vice President,
Africa and Middle East at Sage.
“It’s the power of the desktop you know
and love, including Outlook, Word, Excel
and PowerPoint, but with the freedom to
work where you want, when you want and
on any device. Sage 50cloud Pastel and
Microsoft Office 365 will help modernise
your workplace and get your business ready
for the future.”
Sage 50cloud Pastel is a holistic accounting
and business management solution for Small
and Medium Businesses with multi-currency
support and project tracking. It empowers
business owners and remote workforces
to manage operations, draw reports and
identify trends and opportunities from a
single interface. All components in Sage
50Cloud Pastel are fully integrated and share
a common interface. n
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