SmartThoughts is an authorized solutions provider for Sage Software's SalesLogix ( www.saleslogix.com ) and Sage CRM (www.sagecrm.com ). Our valued Business Partner, Sage Software, has developed a CRM offering which should be considered by your organization for the following reasons: Largest SMB Customer Base in CRM and Growing More than 7,000 corporations and 30,000 individuals use Sage Software's CRM offering, making it the leader in CRM for small to mid-sized businesses. Sage Software's business unit includes customers such as Aames Funding Corporation, ADP, Anheuser Busch, Avnet, Bank of New York, Blue Cross Blue Shield, Forbes, New Horizons, Pulte Homes, The Seattle Times Company, and USCO Logistics. Organization with Long-Term Stability and Sustained Growth Sage Software (www.sagesoftware.com)   is the world’s leading business management software provider to the small and mid-sized business community. Headquartered in the UK, The Sage Group plc serves almost three million customers worldwide and produces annual revenue of nearly $700 million. Now, as a part of the Sage Software family, SalesLogix has a significant opportunity to deliver front-office solutions that integrate with the back-office applications of more than 1.6 million Sage Software customers - giving them greater insight into the dynamic nature of the SMB businesses it serves.   Committed to Providing Technology that Integrates with Tools Customers Use Sage Software is committed to advancing SalesLogix and Sage CRM so they continue to support valuable platforms, applications, and devices. CRM is about having a full view of your customers, and to achieve this, solutions must integrate with the tools and products sales, marketing, and support representatives use every day. SalesLogix is available for networked and synchronized environments, with access to data through the web and on devices such as Palm OS and Pocket PC handhelds, and mobile phones via wireless or synchronization access. SalesLogix integrates with Microsoft Office, offering advanced integration to Microsoft Outlook. It contains recognized selling methodologies and sales reporting tools, and also integrates with many other popular market solutions. Sage Software believes that integrating the front and back offices is critical to providing organizations with insight into their customer base. SalesLogix integrates with MAS 90/200 and MAS 500. In addition, SalesLogix offers integration with accounting products outside of the Best Software family such as QuickBooks Pro/Premier, Great Plains, J.D. Edwards, Exact/Macola, and Solomon. And, SalesLogix has OEM relationships with Made2Manage, Mapics, Friedman, Expandable, and Cedar Group. Product that leads the CRM Industry in Ease of Use and Customization CRM systems are useful only when people use them - and they often don't use them if they feel the system is a corporate mandate rather than a valuable tool. Best products were built to work the way salespeople, marketing professionals, and support personnel really work. Sage has a history of high end-user adoption rates. It is for this reason that Sage is frequently deployed in many divisions of organizations where another CRM product was previously the corporate standard. SalesLogix is acclaimed for its customization capabilities. One of the major pillars of SalesLogix is the product’s “advanced customization” capability. This enables SalesLogix to work in concert with an organization’s unique sales and customer interaction processes, and to accommodate growth and changing business requirements. Customization capabilities in the SalesLogix solution enables customers to achieve an early productive use of the product, tailor the product to their unique business needs, keep the total cost of ownership down since extensive consulting is not necessary, and achieve a high return on investment. To summarize, Sage SalesLogix is recommended by SmartThoughts to our customers for the following: · Highly customizable and proven. · Right-sized for any situation. · IT resource friendly. · Affordable, offering a low total cost of ownership. · Intuitive and designed for maximum user acceptance. · Quickly deployable in LAN, Web, or wireless environments. · Focused on providing a rapid return on investment (ROI). For a quick preview of the SalesLogix application please visit the following link: http://www.saleslogix.com/home/index.php3?cellid=404000001011 For a free 30 day evaluation of Sage CRM.com please visit the following: To schedule a demonstration, please send an e-mail to the following: Sales Department