Technology is driving the pace of change in many growing businesses today.

It’s vital that you and your team can rely on business software that’s flexible, innovative and helps you keep up-to-date.

The good news?

You can do all this with Sage Live, which is about to be launched in the UK and Ireland.

Sage Live is a flexible solution that you can use to manage your accounts, sales, administration and much more, and in real-time.

Here are four reasons why Sage Live can change how you and your company does accounting (and business) today.

1. Bring all of your data together

Is there anything more frustrating than managing multiple data sources while trying to see how your business is performing?

Using Sage Live, you can connect external sources, get automatic updates and gain the information you need, when you need it.

Sage Live gives you a single view of your customer, finance, payroll and accounting data and takes you beyond having to manage separate front- and back-office systems.

Our solution pulls in data from any third-party business apps that are built on the Salesforce1 platform and integrate this information with your internal company data.

Then, your teams can share this data and see interdependencies, while you gain a better insight into the performance of your business.

2. Manage your valuable customer relationships

Because Sage Live is built on the Salesforce platform, you get a powerful customer relationship management (CRM) solution for your business.

This is in turn will help you improve customer service and free up time for your teams to focus on more productive tasks, instead of spending business hours creating reports and sending updates.

Best of all?

You can manage the valuable information you have about customers, build more rewarding relationships and grow your business.

3. Transform your communications

Almost every business person knows the pain of email overload.

Research shows the average worker deals with more than 300 emails a week and checks their email 36 times in an hour.

That’s a lot of time spent on just email.

However, email overload isn’t an inevitable part of doing business. Sage Live offers your teams an alternative way of communicating using the real-time chat app known as Salesforce Chatter.

With this app, you can communicate and collaborate with colleagues and customers directly within your solution. And you can even use tags to keep track of communications.

Of course, email isn’t the only culprit for lost time each day. Managing your teams’ workloads and keeping track of what needs to be done can also eat up valuable business hours.

With Sage Live, you can immediately see what’s on track or falling behind.

Then, you can use this information to communicate with your teams about what they should focus on and what they should stop doing.

4. Access your data anywhere, anytime

The cloud makes it possible for business people to access their data and use key software while out and about.

Sage Live provides secure access to your data on the go through the SalesForce1 platform, which already processes more than 1.3 billion transactions a day.

You can use Sage Live on a range of devices, including laptops, tablets, smartphones and even your Apple watch.

With Sage Live, you can set up finance approval alerts that are sent to your mobile devices, so you’re always up to date.

Plus, you can even open Sage Live up to your suppliers and customers and give them access to instant updates about the things that matter to them.

 Get ready for the future of accounting

Today’s pace of change means businesses need to get ready for tomorrow’s innovations.

This is why we spend our time creating software that’s flexible, intuitive and adaptable.

The question is what changes can you expect tomorrow?

Klaus-Michael Vogelberg, Group Technology Officer at Sage, says the internet of things is one big change that will impact on many businesses.

“One of the most immediate impacts could well be the capturing of data at source and level of process automation through smart technologies,” he says.

“What if, instead of doing our expenses each month, submitting receipts, recording to ledger and all of the associated paperwork and workflows, all of that data was captured at source?”

“Every fuel bill, every train ticket, every coffee with a client, claimed from the till or mobile phone or counter it came from?”

The good news is we designed Sage Live so you get ready for these changes, today.

Want to find out more?

To read more about Sage Live and discover great examples of it will change how you do business, watch this video.