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  • The Sage Group

    The Sage Group plc (abbreviated Sage, ) is engaged in the development, distribution and support of business management software and related products and services for medium-sized and smaller businesses."reuters">

    The Company is listed on the London Stock Exchange and from time to time has been the only UK software company listed in the FTSE 100 Index.

    The Company is also involved in a number of educational and charity initiatives such as funding of a Tyneside music venue The Sage Gateshead and partnership with Durham University Business School.

    History
    Development of the business
    The Company was founded by David Goldman together with Paul Muller and Graham Wylie in 1981 in Newcastle upon Tyne to develop estimating and accounting software for small businesses."history">


    While a student at Newcastle University Graham Wylie took a summer job with an accountancy firm funded by a government small business grant to write software to help their record keeping. This became the basis for Sage Line 50. Next, hired by David Goldman to write some estimating software for his printing company, Campbell Graphics, Graham used the same accounting software to produce the first version of Sage Accounts. David was so impressed he hired Graham and academic Paul Muller to form Sage, selling first to printing companies but then to the wider market through a network of resellers."independent">

    In 1984 the Company launched Sage software, a product for the Amstrad PCW word processor,"history"/> which used the CP/M operating system. Sage software sales escalated in that year from 30 copies a month to over 300."history"/> The Company was first listed on the London Stock Exchange in 1989."history"/>

    In 1994 Paul Walker was appointed Chief Executive. In 1998 Sage’s Professional Accountants Division was established. In 1999 Sage entered FTSE 100"history"/> and launched a dedicated Irish division, based in Dublin as well as its e-business stra read more at » http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The+Sage+Group

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