Sage Endorses Delphia’s Automated SQL Migration for Sage Abra Suite

Migrating from Sage Abra Suite to Sage HRMS Becomes More Streamlined

Delphia Consulting is excited to announce that Sage has endorsed our Automated SQL Migration for Sage Abra Suite (ASM). This groundbreaking solution puts an end to the tedious, time consuming, and costly migration methods used in the past that discouraged many companies from migrating to the SQL platform. ASM simplifies the setup of Sage HRMS Payroll, eliminates the need for duplicate data entry, and provides repeatable parallel payroll testing that, in many cases, can be finished in a matter of minutes.

ASM migrates all data including check history. Certified Sage HRMS consultants will complete planning, training, data migration, and 100% parallels and are there to assist you throughout the process. It also significantly shortens the project duration, lowers the overall cost of migration, and increases customer satisfaction. Take a closer look by visiting the ASM product page on Delphia’s website.

History

In the 1980’s, Sage introduced Abra Suite, the integrated software solution for HR management based on Visual FoxPro. Twenty years later, they introduced a new HR module, Sage HRMS, which was based on Microsoft’s SQL server, and then in 2007 announced the addition of Sage HRMS Payroll. At the same time, Microsoft announced that it would no longer support the Visual FoxPro platform. (As of 2014, Sage no longer sells Abra Suite to new customers and all future investment in product development is in Sage HRMS.)

Realizing that they could not meet every customer’s demands and following the lead of Apple and Google who had opened app stores, in 2010 Sage endorsed a developer partner community, which opened the field to development of additional add-ons and plugins for their products. That same year, Delphia’s Sage HRMS HR Actions was the first such product endorsed by Sage.

A couple of years later, Delphia developed a manual turnkey SQL data migration service for its clients and other partners. Not satisfied, Delphia decided there had to be a better way to do the job and a couple of years ago set a goal for an automated system. In 2015, 8000 development hours later, ASM was rolled out. In June, Sage endorsed ASM, Delphia’s 9th solution to earn that distinction.

What “Sage Endorsement” Means

Sage has a three-tiered development partner community. “Endorsed” is the highest level and is by invitation only. If, after looking at the solution and the need it is filling, Sage determines that it would like to endorse the product, it extends the invitation. Accepting the invitation means putting the product through rigorous testing processes. It must meet the highest strategic and technology benchmarks to align with Sage core solutions. Once those are met, the solution is promoted alongside those solutions. When endorsed, the solution may be branded or co-branded as an integrated component of a Sage solution.