Sage Line 500 Andrew Credland Line 500 Product Development Manager

2 Sage Line 500 Line 500 benefits from a dedicated product management and R&D team We’ll continue to develop and support it through: –Listening to our customers and delivering what they require –Focusing on improving application usability –Improving the User Interface experience –Widening the integration capability though APIs –Supporting extended business processes outside of Line 500 Continuing to link to other Sage software such as SalesLogix, Sage Retail, Sage Asset Manager and SageBI

3 Sage Line 500 roadmap January 2008January 2009 August 2007August 2009 October 2007 Line 500 v7 Payroll 2008/9 Line 500 v7.1 Line 500 v7.2 Payroll 2009/10 Date to be confirmed

4 Sage Line 500 v7 – key additions Usability Universal Client enhancements Alternative BOM and Routes Multi-company batch queue clear-down Analysis codes in scheduled orders Customer Wishlist Auto Credit Notes Flexible Item Reallocation MBEs -Auto GL year-end journal -Improved aged debtors analysis Market-driven Wishlist Enhanced; Back-to-back order processing; Customer Returns module; and Credit Management module Stock Hold and Obsolete controls Carousel VAT (UK) Integration Support for additional transaction types Additional APIs Support for.Net2 International Update of existing formsets Translations for works- orderless Production, Product Management and Manufacturing Extension Pack Platforms Windows Vista ( UC & GUI ) Internet Explorer 7 UNIX platform updates

5 Sage Line 500 v7.1 roadmap Line 500 v7.1 will deliver many customer requested improvements –Work on Wish List has started with 25 enhancements already completed. –Release of previous CPD projects; Supply chain allocations, Whole invoice matching. Legal and Fiscal changes already in progress –German re-accreditation; we are still open to discuss if there are companies we can work with to achieve this –Italian VAT reporting completed and available to download from the ftp site –New HMRC VAT rules investigation

6 Sage Line 500 – other initiatives Update to SalesLogix support –Support for SLX v7.2 integration ongoing expected delivery July 2008 Snowdrop integration –Integration tested, planning release in conjunction with Snowdrop Sage Asset Manager v1.5 –Testing completed, and we’re now in the final stages of documentation prior to the release. SageBI v5.21 –Improvement to Analysis Services and performance –Due May 2008 subject to final testing Sage payment processing (work not started) (PCI-DSS Standard)

Wish List

8 Sage Line 500 – Wish List Source –Sage Sales Logix – the old support logging system –InTouch – the new online wishlist system –Last list – these are the items from the last list that did not get done, but which gained sufficient votes to get a second chance. –SUN – points raised at the SUN user conference

9 Sage Line 500 – Wish List Process –193 Wishes –12 Themes –Decision for this release to aim at some of the smaller wishes Reviewed the 193 and picked around 45 small ones Added half a dozen the team had picked up from customer visits Included the 12 themes in the voting

10 Sage Line 500 – Wish List Results

11 Sage Line 500 – Wish List Results (continued)

12 Further Wishes Completed

13 Further Wishes Completed

14 Further Wishes Completed

15 Line 500 V7.1 Demo

16 Further Contact Meet the R&D Team –Invite for one or more of you to come in and talk about your experience as a user of Line 500 Visit to from the R&D team –Payroll –Telesales –Security

17 Questions