Sage Intacct, Inc is an American provider of cloud-based

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and services available in five regions around the globe -- including the United States, Canada, the UK, Australia, and South Africa. Its products offer cloud-based accounting applications that enable business payments, manage and pay bills, and facilitate payroll functions. The company was founded in 1999 and it was acquired by

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for $850 million in 2017.

History

Intacct was founded by Odysseas Tsatalos and

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in 1999 as one of the first accounting applications for the cloud. The company was headquartered in San Jose, California, grew organically and offered a suite of accounting software that could serve medium and large-sized businesses with consolidated ERP, and e-commerce features. In 2000, Intacct got its first institutional investor, venture capital firm HWVP and completed a Series A round of $10 million. From 2001 to 2014, the company raised $130 million in funding primarily led by the

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, BVP, Sigma Partners and Emergence Capital with the last round of $30 million in 2014 with the company valuation of $211 million. In 2017, Intacct Corporation was acquired by the British multinational accounting software company,

, for $850 million and was subsequently rebranded as Sage Intacct.

Features

Sage Intacct has a suite of subscription-based accounting products. Its web-based applications are built on top of its internally developed platform. Sage Intacct’s application includes

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, cash management, collaborate, general ledger, order management,

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, and reporting and dashboads. In addition to the core financial product, Sage Intacct released add-on software applications for contract and subscription billing, contract revenue management,

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, inventory management , multi-entity and global consolidations,

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, project billing, sales and use tax, time and

expense management Expense management refers to the systems deployed by a business to process, pay, and audit employee-initiated expenses. These costs include, but are not limited to, expenses incurred for travel and entertainment. Expense management includes the poli ...

and vendor payment services. It allows integration of third-party software such as

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, ADP,

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and others.

Operations

Founded and headquartered in San Jose, the company initially grew organically, but more recently has grown primarily through acquisitions. In addition to its US offices it also operates in

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and

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, as well as product localizations being developed at Sage's other international offices such as

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, Spain,

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, UK and Poland. Sage Intacct has more than 14,000 customers and nearly 500 employees across the world.

Awards and recognition

*2016 BIG Innovation Awards recognized by the Business Intelligence Group. *Won two 2016 Best in Biz Award *Best Business Products of 2016 by PC Magazine *Best Places to Work in the Bay Area for 2010 to 2017 *2017 Best Software for Finance Teams list *2019 Top 50 Products for Mid-Market (#39) by G2

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