The Simpson’s comic book guy would surely rate Sage’s work as “worst. Ever.” while IT professionals can only lament being forced to undertake immediate upgrades of production software with no opportunity for internal testing, perhaps mirroring what would evidently seem to be no testing on the part of Sage itself.

Search and apply for Financial Services jobs through Ireland's leading job site jobs.ie. May 18, 2012. Sage MicrOpay, a leading supplier of payroll and people management software and services, has announced that it will now directly sell, implement and support its flagship MicrOpay Meridian payroll software in Queensland. At the same time, the company will launch an office in Brisbane to service its.

Sage MicrOpay Meridian is a leading Australian payroll product, responsible for the successful payment of potentially millions of Australian wage and salary earners nationally. Ordinarily MicrOpay users report high levels of satisfaction and jealously defend moving to other platforms.

Sage may well have burned out its good reputation with its performance over the last month while payroll officers, already under pressure by the impending end of financial year, have had to work excessive hours to cope with the continued blunders pushed onto them by buggy software. The saga begins with MicrOpay Meridian version 6 being released on the 27th May 2013. Typically, it is common for payroll products to have new versions released prior to the end of the financial year as they contain legislative changes such as new tax tables, new superannuation rates, tax office compliant payment summary formats and so forth. Sage released a series of FAQs for what’s new in version 6 at What was less common, in fact, quite unheard of, was the release of service pack 1 on 14th June 2013. We’re not talking about a patch or a hotfix, but an entire “service pack”.

Release notes are available at The major new feature of service pack 1 was the inclusion of the 2013/2014 financial year tax tables – which ordinarily would have been in version 6 – and noticeably a series of items marked as “resolved”, namely bugs, errors, problems and flaws introduced in version 6. The release notes conclude with a lengthy list of bugs still being investigated by Sage. It is important to note that bug fixes come at a cost; they reflect bugs found by ordinary hard-working payroll staff who found their tight weekly schedule interrupted by faults and errors in the process, introduced by the new version 6.0 software. Service calls were logged with Sage, databases backed up, and zipped and sent in for inspection.

One week later Sage MicrOpay Meridian version 6 service pack 2 hit the electrons, with release notes online at Again, this software had to be installed before payroll departments could perform end of financial year processing could occur. As per the release notes, functionality from version 5 has been re-enabled, and other issues have been resolved while other known issues remained to be fixed. Less than a week later, June 27th 2013, Sage MicrOpay Meridian version 6 service pack 3 was released. Download One Piece 3gp Subtitle Indonesia Lengkap. No release notes were provided apart from the contents of the e-mail, but the instructions were to apply the upgrade immediately – no waiting, no testing, it didn’t even matter if you were in the middle of a pay run – Sage wanted this upgrade applied immediately. Sage extended its help desk support hours with staff available on 29th June and 6th July to assist with those companies which were impacted by the continuing software faults.

Of course, this brings with it the implicit recognition that payroll staff are working Saturdays to catch up with the time they lost due to Sage’s presumed lack of diligence and rigour in testing. Sage’s marketing team were contacted on Friday 28th June, and an official statement requested. Marketing replied that the Client Services Manager, Ross Stange, would call directly on that day. However, no call or any other form of contact was received, either on Friday 28th or since. Meanwhile, problems continue with early termination payment reports listing payment dates of 30th December 1899.

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David has been computing since 1984 where he instantly gravitated to the family Commodore 64. He completed a Bachelor of Computer Science degree from 1990 to 1992, commencing full-time employment as a systems analyst at the end of that year. Within two years, he returned to his alma mater, the University of Newcastle, as a UNIX systems manager. This was a crucial time for UNIX at the University with the advent of the World-Wide-Web and the decline of VMS.

David moved on to a brief stint in consulting, before returning to the University as IT Manager in 1998. In 2001, he joined an international software company as Asia-Pacific troubleshooter, specialising in AIX, HP/UX, Solaris and database systems. Settling down in Newcastle, David then found niche roles delivering hard-core tech to the recruitment industry and presently is the Chief Information Officer for a national resources company where he particularly specialises in mergers and acquisitions and enterprise applications.

The Subscribe-HR HR Software in the cloud integrates to Sage MicrOpay Meridian Payroll. The integration points that are included the integration includes: • Employee Mastefile • Absence • Accruals • Payslips • Payment Summaries • Leave Balances • Superannuation • Salary • Timesheets • Bank Details and Address Details As a result of our seamless integration with Sage MicrOpay Payroll, you can use your existing payroll solution and bolt on enterprise strength HR Software to do all the heavy HR lifting for you. Please speak to Sage MicrOpay about their charges for the API integration option.

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