Driving accelerated business transformation from a print to digital model

Seville - May 4th, 2018 - Sage (FTSE: SGE), the market leader in cloud business management solutions today shared at Sage Enterprise Management Partner Summit in Seville, a new customer and partner story. Celebrating their collaboration, the audience learned how Sage business partner SynergERP, supported AutoTrader.co.za to transform its business from paper based to a digital organisation. Helping them to make significant cost and productivity savings with Sage Business Cloud.

After a competitive procurement process, AutoTrader.co.za selected SynergERP to implement Sage Business Cloud Enterprise Management as a platform across their business, and to help them manage back office to customer facing functions across financials, sales and contract delivery.

Sage Enterprise Management helps businesses deliver a more commercially efficient operation with better finance, procurement and business intelligence capability. Giving greater access and control over information to deliver better more informed reporting - significant for AutoTrader.co.za who handle a high volume of transactions and have under gone a business transformation, moving from a weekly print publication to entirely online.

In addition, as a weekly print publication AutoTrader.co.za had to report back to the business regularly, with no easy way of pulling monthly reports. Sales administration was managed through a paper-based billing and invoicing system which was incredibly time consuming.

To help overcome this challenge, as well as implementing Sage Enterprise Management, SynergERP wrote a custom front- end web-based system to make it very easy for the sales team to create bespoke reports and move to electronic billing and invoicing, freeing up a great deal of sales administration time and thereby creating cost-efficiencies in the back-office function

Ashley Regenass CEO of SynergERP, said: 'Our expertise lies in understanding our client's problem, and solving that problem using Sage software through a lasting partnership that delivers value and grows with the client's business. Sage Enterprise Management functionality allows AutoTrader.co.za to maximise decision-making but minimise overhead costs, helping them to operate as efficiently as possible, while modernising and future-proofing its business.'

George Mienie CEO of AutoTrader said: 'We knew we had to move from a paper-based contracts and billing system. We wanted the technology to be intuitive, easy to use and not cause unnecessary disruption to our business. In stepped Sage Enterprise Management and changed our world! Everything now is so much faster and we're able to quickly pull revenue recognition which we weren't able to before.'

Jennifer Warawa, Executive Vice President of Partner and Alliances, Sage commented: 'This is an excellent example of how strong partnerships help to move a customer's business forward. Sage and SynergERP have supported AutoTrader.co.za with their digital evolution and lived that journey with them.' Warawa continues: 'We are committed to bringing tools and resources to our customers via our partners that help facilitate growth and enable organizations like AutoTrader.co.za to be more productive, as well as make more informed decisions through data-driven insights provided by Sage Enterprise Management.'

For more information on how Sage and SynergERP helped transform AutoTrader.co.za's business, you can view a customer spotlight video here

Join the conversation at Sage Enterprise Management Partner Summit in Seville using #sagepartnersummit or visit the official website: https://get.sage.com/partnersummit

About Sage

Sage (FTSE: SGE) is the global market leader for technology that helps businesses of all sizes manage everything from money to people - whether they're a start-up, scale-up or enterprise. We do this through Sage Business Cloud - the one and only business management solution that customers will ever need, comprising Accounting, Financials, Enterprise Management, People & Payroll and Payments & Banking.

Our mission is to free business builders from the burden of admin, so they can spend more time doing what they love - and we do that every day for three million customers across 23 countries, through our 13,000 colleagues and a network of accountants and partners. We are committed to doing business the right way and giving back to our communities through the Sage Foundation.

AboutAutoTrader

AutoTrader is the leading online vehicle marketplace in South Africa. It brings together buyers and sellers across all types of vehicles and gets over 5 million visits each month across more than 78,000 vehicles on mobile, tablet, desktop devices and apps. AutoTrader was the first in its category in South Africa to launch a fully mobile responsive website.

In 2017 AutoTrader MarketPlace was launched, solving the safety, security and financing issues in buying and selling cars privately. In addition, AutoTrader publishes AutoTrader Commercial and

AutoTrader Agri magazines. CommercialTrader.co.za relaunched in 2016, in preparation for the digital future.

Visit AutoTrader.co.za for more information and follow @AutoTraderSA on social media

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