Sage Software and the Certified General Accountants Association of Canada announced today a new strategic partnership between the two organizations, with CGA-Canada adopting Sage Accpac ERP (enterprise resource planning) as its official accounting system for students who are training to become Certified General Accountants (CGAs). Sage Software and CGA-Canada first established a strategic partnership for technology training for CGAs in 1985, and have worked together continuously since then to promote and deliver technology platforms. CGA students worldwide enrolled in the CGA Program of Professional Studies will have an opportunity to be trained on Sage Accpac ERP software. In addition, Sage Software will provide CGAs and students the opportunity to purchase training on all Sage Accpac products at discounted prices through Sage Software’s Accpac University (www.accpacuniversity.com).

“Sage Accpac has long been recognized as the leading ERP software vendor in Canada for small and mid-sized businesses,” said John Yu, Vice President of Information Technology with CGA-Canada. “CGA-Canada wants to ensure that its students learn accounting and business management principles on products that will best prepare them for their professional life. We’re confident this new agreement accomplishes that goal.”

Recently named a “Top 100 Product” for 2006 in the High-End & Mid-Market Accounting category for the 10th straight year by the editors of Accounting Today magazine, Sage Accpac ERP is an advanced, web-based accounting and business management solution that is the foundation for an integrated set of end-to-end business management applications, including Sage Accpac CRM customer relationship management, Sage Accpac Insight reporting, Sage Accpac ePOS point-of-sale, and human resources (HR) and warehouse management applications, among others.

“Sage Software looks forward to this expansion of our relationship with CGA-Canada and its affiliate associations,” said Ron Verni, Sage Software president and CEO. “Like CGA-Canada, Sage is committed to properly preparing students by training them with our market leading products such as Sage Accpac ERP, which they’ll certainly encounter upon entering the workforce.”

Sage Accpac ERP can be run on both Linux and Microsoft Windows operating systems, including the ability to run Linux and Windows clients in parallel against the same database. Sage Accpac ERP also continues to provide small enterprises with the freedom to choose from a variety of industry leading databases, including IBM® DB2®, Pervasive.SQL®, Oracle®, and Microsoft SQL Server, in addition to deploying on either the Microsoft, Linux® or IBM OS400 operating systems. Sage Accpac ERP can be deployed either on premises, or hosted online at www.accpaconline.com.