About Sage Business Cloud People

Company overview

Our cloud HR and people system helps transform mid-sized global businesses into people companies, masters at recruiting, managing and engaging talented employees. We support the entire employment journey, integrating everything from talent acquisition to people analytics in one online system.

Clients benefit from improved employee visibility and increased HR productivity, saving time and money. The system also delivers amazing workforce experiences, so that customers can become great employer brands, increasing engagement, performance, and retention, while making it easier to acquire top talent.

Founder Colin Cooper has a brainwave: a cloud-based HR system just for mid-sized global businesses.

2007
2009

Fairsail launches with talent acquisition, people management and analytics services, and gains its first international customers.
The end-to-end Fairsail HR system is fully rolled out. Customers in more than 50 countries are using Fairsail to connect with their people in a whole new way.

2012
2014

Breakthrough Workforce eXperience (WX) capabilities are launched. Fairsail is recognized by leading industry analysts and catapults into Deloitte’s UK Technology Fast 50.
Fairsail expands into the USA with a new HQ in Chicago, becomes a Salesforce Platinum ISV, announces its partnership with Sage, and wins HCM product of the Year.

2015
2016

With over 100,000 users in 130 countries, employing over 100 dedicated people in the UK and USA, Fairsail is a leader in workforce experience management. Sage becomes a 20% stakeholder.
Recognized as the UK’s fastest growing B2B tech scale up; Fairsail becomes Sage Business Cloud People, part of Sage – the UK’s #1 tech company.

2017
2018

Sage People, part of Sage Business Cloud, launches in Australia, Canada and Germany – and is recognized by analyst Fosway as a core leader in cloud HCM.

Our company

To get the best out of your people, you need to create great experiences at work, both for employees and HR professionals. Our system automates routine administrative tasks and gives customers clear visibility of staff’s skills, activities and potential for growth. Sage Business Cloud People also helps companies connect with their people in a whole new way, so they are empowered and motivated to do their best work.

Our people

We wouldn’t be able to help organizations build great experiences for their people if we didn’t do the same. Over the past decade, our organization has evolved from being a start-up, to scale-up to Sage – all thanks to our people. We’re a hard-working and inclusive team, tirelessly working together to create great experiences for both our customers and their people.

Our company culture is built on shared core values:

Our partners and friends

Sage Business Cloud People has built a thriving ecosystem of partnerships, which includes a strategic alliance with Salesforce.

We also have technology partnerships with a growing number of payroll and third party solution providers that complement the system offering and implementation partnerships with consultants who ensure our customer’s success. We are also proud to count many of the industry’s top analysts, commentators and influencers as friends of ours.