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Sage acquires Bangert to strengthen onboarding for Sage Intacct Construction
Sage, a leader in accounting, financial, HR and payroll technology for small- and mid-sized businesses( SMBs), has announced it has acquired Bangert, a long-standing Sage partner and specialist in AI-enabled implementation and onboarding for construction financial management. The acquisition brings Bangert’ s deep construction expertise, industry-proven implementation methodology and scalable onboarding technology into Sage.
For customers, this means a faster, more predictable path to Sage Intacct Construction. By simplifying implementation, Sage makes it easier for construction businesses to move to the cloud with greater confidence, accelerate time-to-value, reduce deployment risk and stay focused on delivering successful construction projects. It also creates a stronger foundation for continued innovation in onboarding and customer success.
Unlike many industries, construction businesses manage multiple projects across different entities, subcontractors, suppliers and job sites, making the adoption of new financial management software particularly complex. Bangert’ s AskRichard platform combines guided, AI-enabled workflows and expert implementation support to simplify deployment while giving customers access to trusted knowledge throughout the onboarding journey.
“ Bangert has built a strong reputation for helping construction businesses successfully adopt Sage Intacct Construction,” said Dan Miller, EVP, Financials and ERP Division, Sage.“ We’ ve worked together successfully for many years, and this acquisition is a natural next step. It helps customers get up and running faster and realise value sooner, while creating new opportunities for partners to support their adoption.”
Dubai Founders HQ, Mastercard and Pemo launch start-up finance solution
Dubai Founders HQ has partnered with Mastercard, supported by Pemo, to launch a new founder finance solution designed to help start-ups and SMEs save money, strengthen cashflow and operate more efficiently.
Eligible businesses can access over AED10,000 in firstyear value, including up to 2 % cashback on eligible foreign exchange and advertising spend, complimentary access to Pemo’ s spend management platform, Mastercard-powered corporate cards and exclusive business offers and benefits.
Participating businesses can typically recover AED500-1,200 per month in previously untracked expenditure, reduce administrative workloads by more than 60 hours per month through automated expense management and shorten month-end financial closing timelines, in some cases from nine days to three days.
Integrated solution
For many start-up and SMEs, managing company expenses remains fragmented and time-consuming. Founders often rely on personal cards, manually collect receipts, track spending across multiple systems and spend valuable time reconciling expenses at month-end. These inefficiencies create unnecessary costs, limit visibility over business spending and divert attention away from customers, growth and revenue generation.
The initiative addresses these challenges through a single integrated solution that combines Mastercard-powered corporate cards, automated expense management through Pemo, real-time spend tracking and accounting integrations with platforms including QuickBooks, Xero and Zoho. Founders can issue cards to team members, set spending limits and approval controls, automate receipt collection and monitor company spending in real-time through a single platform.
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