Sage Software and SCORE Form Strategic Alliance To Bring Best Practice Solutions To Small Businesses
ACT! by Sage and Peachtree by Sage available for instructional use by 389 regional SCORE small business counseling and training chapters
Scottsdale, Ariz. ?June 13, 2006 ?Sage Software announced today that it has formed a nationwide strategic alliance with SCORE “Counselors to America’s Small Business,?a resource partner with the U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA). The alliance makes ACT! by Sage contact and customer management and Peachtree by Sage accounting solutions available for instructional use to 389 regional SCORE offices that provide free assistance and learning seminars to over 350,000 entrepreneurs annually. Sage Software is also linking each SCORE office with local ACT! and Peachtree certified consultants for training and consulting opportunities.
SCORE CEO Ken Yancey says, ?CORE is pleased to form an alliance with Sage Software, a leader in providing software and business solutions.?Yancey adds, ?he ACT! and Peachtree software will help SCORE counselors provide clients with additional tools and resources that can help them start and grow their business to success.?
SCORE has a network of 10,500 counselors, including 1,300 online counselors, who provide business advice on how to write business plans, manage cash flow and grow existing businesses. Business owners can access SCORE counseling services via face-to-face sessions or online, as well as attend business training workshops. SCORE hosted 117,480 workshop clients and conducted 93,691 online consulting sessions in its fiscal year 2005.
?ccording to the SBA, the 27.4 million small businesses in the United States represent 99.7 percent of all employers,” noted Doug Meyer, President of Sage Software, Small Business Division. “We are clearly in the right place by aligning with SCORE, given that we share the common mission of enabling small business success. Unique to SCORE are its thousands of counselors who offer real-world experience gained from owning their own businesses. Putting ACT! and Peachtree in their hands for best practice sharing is a natural fit.”
ACT! created the contact and customer management software category in 1987 and is the preferred choice of over 2.5 million registered users and more than 35,000 corporate customers to organize, access and manage their critical customer information. ACT! delivers powerful contact and customer management capabilities with flexible deployment and customization options to help individuals, selling professionals and corporate workgroups improve productivity and increase sales. For more information visit www.act.com or call (888) ACT-2006.
For 30 years, Peachtree accounting products have served the needs of growing small businesses that rely on their accounting to give them the insight they need to make better business decisions. Peachtree helps small businesses efficiently manage and streamline their accounting and business management operations by providing powerful accounting with strong analysis tools and operations management features including tight integration with Microsoft ?Office and comprehensive reporting functionality. For more information visit www.peachtree.com or call (800) 228-0068.
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