India, New Delhi, December 11, 2006 — Sage Software India announced the appointment of Patni Computer Systems Ltd as Business Partner for positioning and implementing Sage CRM SalesLogix solutions in India. With more than 300,000 users at over 7,300 companies, SalesLogix is the CRM leader for mid market companies and enterprises worldwide. SalesLogix delivers easy-to-use and integrated sales, marketing, customer service and support automation solutions that can be tailored to an organization’s unique customer acquisition, retention and development processes.
Sage Software India – Managing Director, Mr. Thomas Abraham stated that “SalesLogix has over 45 customers in India across a number of verticals. With the Patni Computer Systems partnership, we hope to bring in world-class consulting expertise in the CRM space to Indian customers�. “Sage Software India is targeting Manufacturing, Insurance and Financial Services companies in India with this partnership in the initial stages while leveraging our new SalesLogix v7 features that include interactive sales dashboards, an integrated service and support client, enhanced marketing capabilities, full-featured mobile support and productivity enhancements for users, administrators and developers. The CRM opportunity in these businesses is huge and we would like to establish ourselves as the market leader in the mid market and enterprise segments.�
Commenting on the partnership, Mr. Milind S Padalkar, Senior VP and Head, Enterprise Application Services, Patni said, “The alliance between Sage Software and Patni will establish lean deployment capabilities of easy-to-use CRM solutions for customers in the manufacturing, insurance and financial services sectors. Patni has done several complex CRM and Analytics projects across the world and this alliance will help us offer that expertise to a wider range of customers in India. Patni intends to launch solution frameworks in early 2007.