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2009 Sage Customer Award Winners
2009 Sage Customer Award Winners
2009 Sage Customer Award Winners
to Sage Customers
Featuring the 2009 Award Winners
Rookie of the Year – Recognizes a new customer who has achieved and exceeded their
stated objectives, establishing a new trajectory for their organization.
Best Use of Customization – Recognizes a customer who has best configured and/or
customized their Sage application to align with the business objective sought.
Community Stewardship – Recognizes an organization that emphasizes the local, national,
or global community in an effort to better the lives of those in the communities.
Innovation – Recognizes the extraordinary achievement of a customer that has adopted
Sage applications as an enterprise-class solution for their industry.
Best End-to-End Deployment – Recognizes the outstanding achievement of a customer
who has integrated two (or more) Sage applications and realized synergies from the
combined result.
Lifetime Achievement – Recognizes organizations that have utilized Sage to achieve or
exceed their stated business objectives for 10 years or more.
Paul Clolery is vice president and editorial director of NPT Publishing Group,
which publishes The NonProfit Times and its sister publication, Exempt
magazine. He also has oversight responsibilities for the editorial content
of The NonProfit Times Online, the e-newsletters NPT Weekly, NPT Instant
Fundraising, NPT TechnoBuzz and NPTJobs. He has been honored four
times for reporting excellence, including an Associated Press (AP) Managing Editors award.
Clolery has also written freelance articles for ID World, Investor’s Business Daily, Working
Woman, and others.
Denis Pombriant has been researching and writing about CRM and on-
demand computing since January 2000. He was the first analyst to cover
on-demand computing as a beat. Among his other accomplishments, Denis
Pombriant is the author of “The New Garage,” a 2004 white paper that first
laid out the blueprint for Cloud Computing. In 2004 Pombriant founded the
Beagle Research Group, LLC, an analyst and consulting firm dedicated to CRM and front office
issues. Denis is well known in the CRM community and frequently posts his insights on his blog
as well as a variety of industry Web properties including Destination CRM, Search CRM, CRM
Buyer, and CRM Magazine, where he is a member of the editorial board of advisers. He has
been quoted in all CRM industry outlets as well as Forbes, Fortune, The Financial Times, and
The Wall Street Journal. He is now working on a book.
Innovation ___________________________________________
Entertainment Lighting Services, Inc.
Sun Valley, CA
Sage MAS 500
Sage Business Partner: Information Integration Group, Inc.
Entertainment Lighting Services, Inc. is a leading supplier of lighting and staging equipment,
providing technologically advanced lighting equipment for rental and sales,
as well as a full range of production services. Since 1991, they have been serving the needs of
a wide variety of industries including television, theatre, film, and red carpet media events.
Prior to their Sage implementation, Entertainment Lighting Services was searching for
a completely integrated system that could handle their unique industry requirements in
accounting for rental and sales inventories as well as labor scheduling. They found their
solution with Sage MAS 500. They now have a comprehensive system that helped reduce their
inventory shrinkage by 50% while the month-end close process was reduced from 4 weeks to 5
days—all while experiencing significant growth in revenues.
Lifetime Achievement________________________________
Amix Salvage & Sales Ltd.
Surrey, BC
Sage Accpac, SageCRM
Sage Business Partner: Plus Computer Solutions Ltd.
Amix Salvage & Sales Ltd. is a salvage industry leader in dismantling and demolition projects.
The have been in the salvage industry for over 30 years and own and operate barges, tugs, and
an inventory of specialized scrap handling equipment. As the largest scrap metal recycler in
British Columbia they move thousands of tons of material quickly and efficiently by truck, rail,
and sea.
Amix Salvage & Sales has been using Sage solutions for over 17 years and during this time
they have experienced a variety of unique market challenges including massive volatility in
commodity prices, world wide economic troubles, and the growing demand for recycled metals
in new markets overseas. As the market has changed our award recipient’s processes have
changed as well. Since their initial DOS implementation, they have now grown to use Sage
Accpac which has helped automate or eliminate many of their old manual processes such
as the manual time entry for payroll, which saved 15 hours each week. In addition, real-time
perpetual inventory has saved 10 hours per month by eliminating the need for retail store
workers to research inventory levels.
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