Fairsail to Sage - Our Story
2007
Founder Colin Cooper has a brainwave: a cloud-based HR system just for mid-sized global businesses.
2009
Fairsail launches with talent acquisition, people management and analytics services, and gains its first international customers.
2012
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.
2014
Breakthrough Workforce eXperience (WX) capabilities are launched. Fairsail is recognized by leading industry analysts and catapults into Deloitte’s UK Technology Fast 50.
2015
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.
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.
2017
Recognised 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. .
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.
Sage Business Cloud People in numbers
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.
Our people
We know our customers have choices. That’s why we’re careful to recruit only the very best people. Our highly motivated, skilled team works non-stop to help our clients achieve success and make sure they remain customers for life.
Our company culture is built on shared core values:
- Demonstrating ambition and passion
- Asking the right questions
- Delivering results
- Valuing teamwork
- Earning trust
- Constantly learning and evolving
Our clients worldwide
Sage Business Cloud People has been global right from the start. From our first days in Reading, UK, we’ve been working with business all over the world, many of them fast-growing agile start-ups and unicorns. Now with over 200 customers - we have users in over 140 countries.
Conceived from the get-go as a global solution
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