Empowering organisations: Sage Intacct expands African footprint to give businesses a competitive edge

South Africa – 28 August, 2024: Sage (FTSE: SGE), the leader in accounting, financial, HR, and payroll technology for small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs), has launched Sage Intacct in Zimbabwe, Lesotho and Eswatini, helping transform the way organisations operate by providing real-time financial visibility, advanced automation and data-driven insights.

Sage Intacct helps to empower financial teams from repetitive tasks, enabling them to concentrate on higher-value, high-impact strategic activities. For example, instead of spending hours manually inputting data, financial professionals can analyse market trends and create strategic financial plans, as well as implement innovative solutions like predictive analytics. This helps to continuously improve a business’s financial health and competitive edge.

Key features and benefits of Sage Intacct includes:

• Making Informed Decisions: Finance teams will gain clear insights into their financial data, empowering smarter decision-making based on real-time information.
• Simplifying Financial Operations: Finance teams will no longer need to manage tedious spreadsheet tasks and manual data entry, helping save time and reducing errors.
• Increasing Efficiency: Organisations can automate accounts payable and receivable tasks, freeing up valuable time for your team to focus on strategic priorities.
• Growing with Confidence: the scalable platform grows with businesses, allowing them to add functionality as needed without disruptions.
• Enhancing Accuracy: Finance teams can easily harness the power of artificial intelligence and machine learning to automate processes and improve data accuracy.
• Seamlessly Integrating: Finance teams can easily integrate Sage Intacct with other applications using its open architecture and library of APIs.

“Digitisation is propelling economies forward. The expansion of Sage Intacct into these countries is immensely significant for businesses in the regions. Companies using cloud solutions experience 25% more automation than their counterparts, while finance teams with minimal automation spend only 18% of their time on value-added tasks,” said Pieter Bensch, Executive Vice President & Managing Director for Sage Africa & Middle East.

“Our commitment is to empower businesses in the regions with cutting-edge cloud financial management solutions that will experience unprecedented levels of automation and efficiency. This expansion marks a significant milestone in our journey to drive digital transformation and economic growth throughout the continent."

Access to a powerful foundation built for success

Following successful launches in Namibia, Botswana, and Mauritius in 2022, Sage Intacct will be brought to Zimbabwe, Lesotho and Eswatini customers through certified business partners (BPs) offering deep expertise in specific vertical markets.

“Sage Intacct helps us achieve our goals by automating processes we used to execute manually, putting real-time insights about our business at our fingertips,” says Daniel Smith, Financial Director at Life & Brand Portfolio. “The ease of use and integration with our other business systems means we’ve been able to create custom dashboards and reports without in-depth training. Life & Brand Portfolio uses Sage Intacct as a single solution that makes it easy to view and analyse performance at the store and brand level and run consolidated reports for the restaurant group.”

Sage Intacct also offers customers easy access to a growing ecosystem of technology partners that deliver complementary, pre-integrated solutions to extend the capabilities of Sage Intacct via the Sage Intacct Marketplace.

Visit Sage Intacct Financial Management Software | Sage Africa to learn more.

Editor's notes

Sage Intacct success stories

Sage has built a strong base of Sage Intacct clients in South Africa since launching the solution in 2020, including Brenn-O-Kem, Dynamic Technologies, Life & Brand Portfolio, Retail Capital, and Seaborne Logistics to name a few.

Find out how customers are using Sage Intacct to drive better business outcomes on our Customer Success Stories page.

• Reporting used to be a manual, Excel-based process for Seabourne Logistics and has now been streamlined significantly through Sage Intacct.
• Sage Intacct has enabled Retail Capital to grow its business without adding finance department overheads.
• Brenn-O-Kem has saved hours of manual work with Sage Intacct and is now able to work in real-time instead of 15 or 30 days after the data is available.
• Dynamic Technologies manages over 1,500 employees and nine companies using the powerful multidimensional reporting feature in Sage Intacct.

Integrable solutions such as Sage Distribution and Manufacturing Operations (SDMO) are also available in Sage Intacct:

• Following a successful early adopter phase in South Africa, SDMO is now generally available in South Africa, Namibia, Mauritius, Botswana, Lesotho, Eswatini (Swaziland) and Zimbabwe. Find out more about SDMO here.

About Sage Group

Sage exists to knock down barriers so everyone can thrive, starting with the millions of small and medium-sized businesses served by us, our partners, and accountants. Customers trust our finance, HR, and payroll software to make work and money flow. By digitising business processes and relationships with customers, suppliers, employees, banks and governments, our digital network connects SMBs, removing friction and delivering insights. Knocking down barriers also means we use our time, technology, and experience to tackle digital inequality, economic inequality, and the climate crisis. Learn more at www.sage.com.

Sage Intacct is currently available to customers in the United Kingdom, the United States of America, Canada, Australia, and South Africa.

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