by Angela Guess

According to a new press release, “Around half of small businesses say they are ready to run their companies using Bots and Artificial Intelligence (AI), according to new global research from Sage, the market leader in cloud accounting software. The research comes as Sage announces a fresh launch of cloud accounting solutions to take business builders and entrepreneurs closer to the future where accounting is invisible. In the U.S., product releases include Sage One with Pegg, the first cloud accounting platform with chat bot integration, as well as Sage People, a flexible cloud Human Capital Management (HCM) solution for mid-sized businesses and enterprises. As the world’s first accounting chat bot, Pegg highlights Sage’s investment in AI technology, with more to come.”

The release continues, “Today Sage, the market and technology leader in cloud accounting, announced: Five global cloud solutions: Five new accounting cloud solutions across seven global markets for business of all sizes; More than 20,000 chat bot Pegg users: Tens of thousands of ‘new to Sage’ customers have adopted accounting chat bot Pegg within six months since its launch; More than 100 new and fully integrated ISV’s on the Sage Marketplace: building on Sage’s heritage of strong partnerships, including new global relationships with Salesforce, Microsoft, Apple and Slack; Invisible accounting by 2020: Sage’s vision is to lead the business builders of tomorrow towards an ‘invisible accounting’ environment so they can focus on building their business.”

Read more at Marketwired.

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