{"id":11780,"date":"2020-01-23T14:21:57","date_gmt":"2020-01-23T14:21:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cofficient.co.uk\/?p=11780"},"modified":"2020-01-23T14:21:57","modified_gmt":"2020-01-23T14:21:57","slug":"costs-of-sticking-with-sage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cofficient.co.uk\/costs-of-sticking-with-sage\/","title":{"rendered":"Is Your Comfort Blanket Costing Your Business?"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\u201cOur accounts team are happy with Sage and want to stick with it\u201d<\/span><\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n
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This is a phrase I hear all too often when speaking to businesses about their software choices.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n
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I recently had a conversation with the IT Manager of a prospect who aired his frustrations at the attitude of the Finance team.\u00a0 The business as a whole had agreed that they needed new software to manage the various functions within the business, however, the Finance department refused to give up their comfort blanket – Sage.<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n
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\u201cI know the business would benefit from an ERP solution but the finance team won\u2019t budge\u201d<\/span><\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n
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In this instance, the IT Manager had numerous years experience of working with ERP solutions and was really frustrated at the lack of foresight in the Finance team.\u00a0 In fact, he stated that an ERP solution could really boost the profits in the business and that sticking with Sage<\/a> was actually holding the business back.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n
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There\u2019s no doubt that the Finance department is generally the Mothership of the business.\u00a0 It\u2019s understandable that accountants would be nervous to move from a system that they probably know inside out.\u00a0 Nobody likes to be pushed out of their comfort zone but sticking with Sage and what you know does have some hidden disadvantages:<\/span><\/p>\n
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