Sage India has launched Sage Accpac ERP Professional edition to address the requirements of the SME market in India. The company claims that Accpac ERP Professional edition enables to make internal business processes operate faster and easier.

According Sage, Accpac Professional Edition comes with core accounting and operational modules that includes, System Manager, General Ledger, Accounts Receivables, Account Payables, Inventory Control, Order Entry, Purchase Order, Optional Fields, TDS, Report Manager.

The company said that Sage Accpac ERP 5.6 enables to gain a faster and more accurate view of cash position with improved workflow in Bank Services;enables access decision-quality information and significantly improve your visibility into business measurements with the new Sage Accpac Intelligence application.

Sage Accpac ERP 5.6 also runs on the new Microsoft Windows 7 operating system; save money on upgrade costs with quality, and faster implementation procedures; improve the productivity of your workforce with the many customer-requested enhancements throughout the software; and better manage growth expectations and create loyal customers, while streamlining operations with SageCRM.

The company said that it also enables to lower total cost of ownership and facilitate secure system through virtualisation; and accelerate collection efforts and improve the cash flow utilising the now built-in AR Inquiry tool.

Mr Thomas Abraham, managing director of Sage India, said: "There is a huge market in India of companies who have outgrown a basic accounting package and are seeking to implement an ERP. This segment is looking for an easy to use, fully featured ERP that can be implemented easily and is also cost effective.

"By introducing the Professional edition at Rs One Lakh, we believe the ‘sweet spot’ of SME decision making has been achieved. Sage Accpac has been localized to Indian tax requirements and comes with a built-in module for TDS.

"We are also pleased to release Sage Accpac ERP version 5.6 with a host of new features. This includes Sage Accpac Intelligence that facilitates designing of reports from various data sources, Report scheduling, Report consolidation, Import & Export of reports and OLAP Cubes."