Unit4 has introduced Milestone 4, a product whose highlights include its support of social and mobile technologies. Available via the public and private cloud, the new ERP package is designed for what Unit4 says are people-centric business that have large mobile work forces. Functionality is being released in what the company terms "Experience Packs". Those are also available to on-premise users who can chose what areas of the product to focus on in terms of timing and order of an upgrade.

An upgrade for the version of the venerable F9 will be coming next money in February for AccountMate's financial applications. In a mailing to the channel, AccountMate CEO David Dierke noted that there would be an upgrade F9 5.0 for AccountMate. The vendor's resellers also sell F9, which is a very small dot in the universe of its owner SAP,  and get their usual business partner discounts for sales.

Fishbowl, known for its QuickBooks addons, has introduced the web-based LilyPad Mobile Warehouse. The app can access Fishbowl's inventory management features from smartphones, tablets and other wireless devices that run on a web browser. LMW enables users to login to their accounts using their Fishbowl Inventory usernames and passwords. Along with providing access to the addition features available on the desktop product LMW adds two highly requested features: add and scrap inventory.