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STRATEGIC REPORT
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FINANCIAL STATEMENTSGOVERNANCE
The Sage Group plc | Annual Report & Accounts 2015
Sage Live:26weeks
from idea to customer
test-drive
Case study – New product development
The development of Sage Live is the embodiment of
the One Sage way of working. Sage Live is a cloud
proposition that combines social, mobile and real-time
technologies with a state-of-the-art accounting engine
to provide business management to a new generation
of entrepreneurs and fastgrowing companies.
Read more about Sage Live on page 32.
In December 2014, the challenge was set to create
a next generation proposition intime for launch at Sage
Summit. The pace of the project was a departure from
established development cyclesand raised our ambition
enormously. The product concept was established in
January 2016. A small team of experts within Sage was
gathered from fivecountries, all with a distinguished
background, great expertise of accounting and a
complete determination to succeed. The project team
employed agile working practices and instilled a rapid
pace of collaboration across Sage, without country
boundaries. A working practice of “co-creation” was
established with customers, partners and experts
torefine the product and accelerate to the right solution.
The team averaged three customer collaboration
sessions per week where productdevelopment progress
was reviewed. Over 685 prospective customers, partners
and experts participated and we announced availability
at Sage Summit in July 2015.
Jennifer Ku owns and manages LaundryLaundry,
a clothes servicing business which focuses on its
customers by providing pick-up and drop-off services:
“ The mobility and flexibility of Sage Live allows me to run
my business from anywhere. Access to real-time
information has allowed us to focus more on our
customers.”
Jennifer Ku, LaundryLaundry.com