Sage Releases Peachtree by Sage 2009

Sage Software worked closely with small businesses through its Customer-Connected
Design Center to identify opportunities to enhance functionality and introduce
new features in Peachtree 2009. Business planning and analysis capabilities
were foremost among owner requests. Highlights include:

Cash management tools that improve ability to project cash flow: Peachtree
2009 expands the product line’s already powerful cash flow analysis capabilities
to bring even more critical analysis capabilities to small firms. With the new
Cash Manager Tool, small businesses can easily anticipate cash needs by seeing
what they have now, and what they should have in the future. They can also run
“What If” scenarios to see the impact of certain activities such
as addition or elimination of inventory, pricing changes, the addition of staff
or other investments on the business, without running actual transactions, and
can customize cash flow projections based on historical transactions or other
activity. All of those scenarios can be exported to Microsoft ® Excel for
more in-depth analysis.

New multi-year reporting for richer budgeting, trend analysis and more accurate
forecasting: Multi-Year Reporting allows small companies to report on General
Ledger and Financial Statement data outside of two open years, allowing them
to easily compare budgets and financial results using more comprehensive historical
trends.

Easier payroll management: Accurate payroll is vital to any small business,
and in 2009, payroll management is even easier with an improved Payroll Setup
Wizard, which walks small businesses through payroll setup and maintenance with
a series of simple questions. The expanded payroll also supports many additional
benefits, such as multiple retirement and insurance plans, as well as flexible
spending accounts and additional state taxes, vacation and sick time tracking,
and more secure presentation of employee data. All Peachtree reports now display
only the last four digits of Social Security numbers to help prevent identity
theft, comply with state laws, and help small businesses get a handle on the
potential for fraud within their firms.

Real Time Alerts anticipate problems and reduce errors: With Real Time Alerts,
firms receive a warning when they use a non-standard A/P or A/R account on Purchase
and Sales Invoices, as well as when they use non-Cash accounts on Receipts and
Payments. This alert feature takes the existing Internal Accounting Review feature
a step further by warning small businesses as problems occur, so there’s
less likelihood of mistakes continuing and causing problems in the long term.

Streamlined Time and Expense tracking for professional services firms: Firms
that track time can now set the first day of the work week for weekly timesheets,
and to save time, they can also copy timesheets from the previous week, as well
as see new Time and Expense Ticket List Views, for better analysis.

As an added bonus, Peachtree 2009 customers automatically receive 100 MB of
off-site storage free with Peachtree Online Back-up powered by Iron Mountain.
Customers will continue to receive this benefit with each subsequent upgrade,
or as part of Peachtree Business Care and Peachtree by Sage Quantum.

Also available in the product line is Peachtree by Sage – Quantum 2009.
Introduced in 2006, Peachtree Quantum is the most comprehensive application
in the product line, offering all of the new features and enhancements along
with more user and transaction volume support. In addition to the existing 10
seat license, Peachtree Quantum now offers 15, 20 and 30 seat licenses, and
with the new SmartPosting technology, even faster performance. This technology
provides significant performance improvements in multi-user environments based
upon repeated tests that have proven Peachtree Quantum 2009 significantly outperforms
products such as QuickBooks Enterprise 2008 with up to 4 times faster transaction
processing in a 20 user environment.

Pricing and Availability
Peachtree Premium Accounting 2009, Peachtree Complete Accounting 2009, Peachtree
Pro Accounting 2009 and Peachtree First Accounting 2009 are now available direct
from Sage Software and will be available from most computer retailers and office
supply stores in mid-June. The suggested retail price for Peachtree Premium
Accounting 2009 is $499.99, Peachtree Complete Accounting 2009 is $269.99, Peachtree
Pro Accounting 2009 is $169.99, and Peachtree First Accounting 2009 is $69.99.
The Multi-User Value Pack (5 seat license) of Peachtree Complete Accounting
retails for $699.99, while the Peachtree Premium Accounting 2009 Multi-User
Value Pack (5 seat license) can be ordered direct from Sage Software for $1,199.99.
High value competitive rebates are available from Sage Software for customers
on other small business accounting packages. Call 800-228-0068 for more details.

Also available direct from Sage Software and from hundreds of Peachtree Certified
Consultants nationwide as well as selected resellers are Peachtree – Quantum
2009, Peachtree Premium Accounting for Manufacturing 2009, Peachtree Premium
Accounting for Construction 2009, Peachtree Premium Accounting for Distribution
2009, Peachtree Premium Accounting for Nonprofits 2009 and Peachtree Premium
Accounting 2009 – Accountants’ Edition. The Multi-User Value Pack
(5 seat license) is available for each vertical industry specific solution.
Peachtree Quantum supports up to 30 licensed, named users, and is designed for
companies that are outgrowing the capabilities of the Peachtree accounting line
and the Peachtree Premium vertical industry solutions.