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Kentico Announces Sage 50 Accounting System Integration by Discover IT

Wokingham, UK, August 16, 2012 – Kentico Software (http://www.kentico.com), the Web content management system vendor, announced today integration with Sage 50 Accounts through the Sage 50 Connect offering by Discover IT.

Kentico Gold Partner, Discover IT, has launched a versatile Web store application that integrates Kentico CMS directly with the Sage 50 accounting system for real time interfacing. Sage, the UK’s No.1 account software for small and medium-sized businesses helps their customers take control of their day-to-day finances, customer relationships, and accounting, payroll and e-commerce activities

“Integration with Sage 50 Accounts allows businesses in the UK and US that are rooted in the Sage software to use their current accounting system, while leveraging the power of the Kentico e-commerce solution and Kentico’s online marketing features,” said Petr Palas, CEO and Founder of Kentico Software.

“The Kentico CMS well-layered architecture and large library of customizable modules, backed by excellent and responsive Kentico support, enabled Discover IT to achieve rapid integration with the Sage Accounts system,” says Paul Bailey, Managing Director, Discover IT (UK) Ltd.

Stephen Done, Technical Director at EcuTek International Ltd., who recently partnered with Discover IT in the creation of their Web store integrated with Sage 50, says, “The rich feature set of the Kentico E-Commerce system is now seamlessly integrated with our Sage 50 back-end accounting and dispatch system. This has substantially streamlined our online business.”

Features of the integration include: 

• real-time customer ID management
• product lists and details retrieval (tailored to user) 
• real-time price list retrieval (tailored to user) 
• real-time stock level retrieval 
• real-time updates 
• sales order processing 
• online payments and invoicing
• customer management of their account and orders

Sage 50 integration is offered alone or as part of a full Web store by Discover IT. It currently works with Sage 50 version 2007 upwards, Kentico CMS version 6 and upwards, and is offered with B2C and B2B options.

For more information about Sage 50 integration or for a demonstration, http://www.ecommerce-connect.co.uk  

About Discover IT

Founded in September 1995, Discover IT’s mission is to help small and medium-sized businesses establish an effective and well integrated business-to-consumer or business-to-business ecommerce presence. It has deployed highly successful sites in a diverse range of markets including full-cycle insurance, consumer goods, engineering products and recruitment. Discover IT is a privately held company and is headquartered in Reading, United Kingdom. For more information on Discover IT, please call +44 (0)118 971 3975 or visit www.discoverit.co.uk.

About Kentico CMS

Kentico CMS is an enterprise Web Content Management System and Customer Experience Management System that provides a complete set of features for building websites, intranets, community sites and e-commerce solutions on the Microsoft ASP.NET platform on premise or in the cloud. It supports mobile websites, SEO, document management, online marketing tools, multilingual websites, multisite management and it ships with 40 modules, 340 configurable Web parts and source code available.

Kentico CMS customers can expect a highly flexible platform with a uniquely easy-to-use user interface. It’s currently used by more than 12,000 websites in 87 countries. The clients include Microsoft, Guinness, McDonald's, Vodafone, O2, Orange, Brussels Airlines, Mazda, Ford, Subaru, Isuzu, Samsung, Gibson, ESPN, DKNY, Abbott Labs, Medibank, Ireland.ie and others.

About Kentico Software

Kentico Software (www.kentico.com) helps clients create successful dynamic websites, intranets, community sites and e-commerce solutions using Kentico CMS for ASP.NET. It's committed to deliver a full-featured, enterprise-class, stable and scalable Web Content Management solution on the Microsoft .NET platform. Founded in 2004, Kentico is headquartered in the Czech Republic and has offices in the United States (Nashua, NH and Seattle, WA), United Kingdom (Reading) and Sydney (Australia). Since its inception, Kentico has continued to rapidly expand the Kentico CMS user base worldwide. Its partner network consists of 1,200 partners in 80+ countries. Kentico Software is a Microsoft Gold Certified Partner. In 2010, Kentico was named the fastest growing technology company in the Czech Republic in the Deloitte Technology FAST 50 awards.