Sage North America Executive Will Share Disaster Recovery Expertise at NTEN's 2010 Nonprofit Technology Conference


AUSTIN, TX--(Marketwire - April 6, 2010) -  Sage North America today announced that Grant Howe, vice president of research & development for the Nonprofit Solutions business unit, will present an education session on disaster recovery at NTEN's 2010 Nonprofit Technology Conference (NTC), being held April 8-10 at the Omni Hotel at CNN Center in Atlanta. Sage North America will also exhibit its Sage MIP Fund Accounting and Sage Fundraising software products for nonprofit and government agencies in booth 18 at the conference's Science Fair.

Howe will present "When Disaster Strikes It's Too Late!: Plan for Business Continuity Now and Be Prepared" on Friday, April 9. He will discuss what kinds of business interruptions to plan for, techniques for mitigation, elements of a proper business continuity plan, and how to begin the project. Attendees will leave with practical knowledge of how to protect their business operations from interruption and concrete steps to begin developing a plan.

Howe has more than 16 years of technology industry expertise. He previously served as executive vice president of engineering and chief technology officer (CTO) for Houston-based CareFlash.com, a Web 2.0 company. He holds a master's degree in software engineering from Syracuse University in Syracuse, N.Y., and a bachelor's degree in computer science from the State University of New York (SUNY) College at Oswego.

For more information about NTEN's 2010 Nonprofit Technology Conference, please visit http://nten.org/ntc. For more information about Sage North America's Nonprofit Solutions, please visit http://www.sagenonprofit.com or call 800-811-0961.

About Sage Nonprofit Solutions
Sage North America has been serving nonprofit and governmental organizations for more than 30 years. The company currently helps more than 3.1 million small and mid-sized businesses and nonprofits in the U.S. and Canada increase efficiency and more easily manage their operations through the use of technology. From fund accounting, donor and fundraising management, and fixed asset management, to online donation processing, human resources, payroll, and health care, Sage offers a software product or service to meet the organization's need.

About Sage North America
Sage North America is part of The Sage Group plc, a leading global supplier of business management software and services. Sage North America employs more than 4,100 people and supports 3.1 million small and medium-size business customers, including medical practices supporting more than 80,000 physicians in the United States. The Sage Group plc, formed in 1981, was floated on the London Stock Exchange in 1989 and now employs 13,400 people and supports 6.1 million customers worldwide. For more information, please visit the Web site at www.sagenorthamerica.com.

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