Exact has released upgraded capabilities of its Exact Online for wholesalers and distributors. The new product, Wholesale Distribution Advanced, adds multi-warehouse capabilities, serial/batch tracking and the ability to perform deeper analyses of business data, especially sales performance. The software is available online for a $299 monthly subscription. Multi-warehouse capabilities include enabling customers to manage multiple shipping locations and geographically dispersed inventories from a single screen, while data is updated and reconciled in real-time.

Synergy Business Solutions, a Dynamics SL and Intacct reseller, has hired John Foster as VP of sales and marketing. Foster’s arrival is in preparation for the retirement of Jered Cady, Synergy EVP and principal. Foster has decades of experience at some well known reselling organizations. He was president of Xenex Seattle from August 1986 through December 2006 and then VP and partner at Forepoint, which acquired the Xenex operation, from January 2007 through November 2010.

York, Pa.-based Stambaugh Ness Business Solutions has acquired Acuity Business Solutions of Reston, Va.  Acuity will become a division of SNBS. Both firms are Deltek resellers. Acuity founder June Jewell will remain as a strategic advisor. The combined firm has staff in nine states and assumes Acuity’s position as a Deltek Premier Partner. When it was selected as a VAR Star for 2013, Acuity reported $4.1 million in annual revenue and a staff of 12. It had 13 as a part of the purchase and the combined operation with Acuity as a division employs 24.

Infor posted net income for the second straight quarter the software giant said this week. It will need that kind of sustained performance to go public. And the company had a 22-percent rise in product income for the first quarter ended July 31, compared to a 2-percent hike in product updates and support fee revenue for the same period. How many financial product publishers see their product revenue growth exceed maintenance?