Companies using discontinued Sage products can still receive discounts by migrating to one of Sage’s flagship products, including Sage 100 (MAS 90 and MAS 200), and Sage 300 (Accpac) under the Sage Investment Protection Plan. Sage products being discontinued include: SagePro, BusinessWorks, Batchmaster, Platinum for Windows, VisionPoint and Sage 500. Companies will receive credits for their existing user-licenses (for both companies on maintenance plans and off-plan) when they migrate. The current incentives will last until September of 2014.

Friendly Systems, Inc. can help you evaluate Sage 100 (MAS 90 & MAS 200), Sage 300 (Accpac) and other products so you can consider your upgrade choices and take advantage of the Investment Protection Plan offer.

xTuple ERP Friendly Systems has also assisted companies in migrating from their expiring software to xTuple ERP, one of the top open-source manufacturing & distribution software packages. xTuple ERP software offers several editions, continued improvements and an Open Source philosophy. The PostBooks® version is free, runs on the robust PostgreSQL database engine and serves as a platform for the more advanced commercial versions, but many businesses are running fine on the PostBooks® version. xTuple is listed in InfoWorld’s 2012 and 2013 Best of Open Source Software (Bossie Awards) in the ERP catagory. Announced Sept 2014 – xTuple made InfoWorld’s 2014 Best of Open Source Software list.