UK largest tech company, only one in FTSE 100
13,000 employees in 23 countries
Golden Triangle on Accounting, Payroll, Payments
Transformation Journey. Desktop -> Cloud -> Invisible Accounting by 2020
My role, chatbots history, relationship with Microsoft
Worlds fist accounting chatbot.
Incomes, Expenses, Balance, Jokes
Linked to Sage One
Free forever, upsell
US only, UK coming
Net new customers, existing customers coming soon
Mobile World Congress 2016
Personal Trainer for you business, progress bars for todos, metrics on outstanding invoices, reminders, actioned notifications
Chatbots were everywhere at MWC.
State of Tech of the time, pre-messenger platform, pre-MS Bot Framework. Lots of companies with WhatsApp hacks
- No one starts their business thinking yay! I get to do accounting
6 million businesses. But 70% don’t use any accounting software.
Timing – focus on Slack and Skype. Niche Platforms?
Minimal Impact on core Sage dev teams, architects, product managers, technology leaders
No integration on Sage Product, security, service level implications.
No Natural Language Processing, request & response experience using keywords
Focus on what’s different, design, language, personality, branding
Sage Summit
Overwhelming reaction & coverage. Places Sage has never been
10,000 users 78 countries. India, Brazil, Nigeria, Syria.
10x level of engagement
Industrialization
Problems that manifest in a large enterprise -> consistency, focus, duplication of effort