The document summarizes the product roadmap for Sage Accpac ERP. Key updates and releases include Sage Accpac v5.5 in May 2008, v5.6 in November 2009, and Sage Accpac 6 in 2010. Sage Accpac v5.6 focuses on top customer requests like reporting and includes Sage Accpac Intelligence for analysis. Beta testers praised v5.6 for valuable new features and improved performance. The roadmap provides details on supported platforms, upcoming pre-release materials, and encourages participation in the controlled release program.

1. Product Management Roadmap

2. Sage Accpac ERP Global Strategic Sage product Customer Connected Development Net Promoter In-Product Survey User Centered Design

3. Customer Connected Priority Market Research IdeaScope Customer / Partner / In-Product Surveys Usability Testing Product Council Customer Site-Visits Customer/Partner Interviews Customer Forums Win/Loss Competitive Analysis

4. Sage Accpac Product Roadmap Accpac V5.5 May 2008 Accpac 6 2010 Accpac V5.6 November 2009 Bundled MSSQL September 2008 Accpac Online August 2008

5. Sage Accpac v5.5: Success! 17% Increase in Net Promoter Score over Accpac 5.4! Quality better than ever Value SageCRM included Bundled options Edition expansion Support – Ungated Knowledge Base & Community Forum “ The upgrade process was seamless, our staff were up and running with 5.5 in less than 4 hours. It has been very stable. The users have been happy with the new features and I've noticed speed increases as well . Sage did a great job making this release enterprise-ready.”  Warren Massey, Vice President, Technology & Support Services Rana Medical

6. Customer Requests: in-product survey Top 5 Reporting Usability TCO - Upgrades Performance/Quality Functionality

7. Sage Accpac Product Roadmap Accpac v5.6 November 2009 Subject to Change Accpac 6 2010 Accpac Intelligence November 2009

8. Sage Accpac Intelligence Allows Financial Managers to easily create reports and analyze data Based on familiar Excel Provides many pre-formatted report templates Financial Reports Sales/Purchasing/Inventory analysis Advanced OLAP analysis Integrated with Sage Accpac desktop 1 User License Bundled (free) with v5.6 Also available for v5.5 but not free

10. Sage Accpac v5.6 Focus on Top Customer Requests Reporting Bundled Sage Accpac Intelligence – 1 Free License Integrated AR Inquiry Numerous Crystal reports improved Usability Simplification of Bank Reconciliation TCO One-step installation & activation Free Sage University training on “what’s new” features Performance/Quality Expanded Controlled Release program Test automation Single release Functionality Serialized Numbers/Lot Tracking integration Payroll employee security Support for SageCRM Solo

11. Platform Support in v5.6 Platform support added: Virtualization support (VMWare and Citrix) Windows 7 64 Bit support server/workstation Platform support discontinued: IBM DB2 database Windows 2000 Server/MS SQL Server 2000 Excel 97/2000/XP Xcelsius Dashboard V5.6 last release to support this Replaced by Sage Portal in V6.0

12. How Beta Testers feel about v5.6 The best product so far, by far! Efe Oputu , Alpha Software Systems Product is well thought out, adds valuable features and performed great! Ed McCarthy, BusinessLink New England, Inc. Finally an ERP system that is reasonably easy to use and has all the functionality that any small or medium business would require, including CRM. Joey Shull, M&C Mgmt Systems, LLC 5.6 has many new features that will save customers time and money. Zev Kizelnik, PC Ware Business Solutions

13. Value of New Features in v5.6

14. Get Ready for v5.6 Now! Pre-Release Guide to be posted on the Partner Resource Center within a week (by Sept 7 th ) “ Upgrade Ladder” – End of September No Surprises! – End of September Consider participation in Controlled Release: http://www.sageaccpac.com/lp/sageaccpac/controlledrelease/ [email_address]