Go outside the San Jose Convention Center and the hotels connected to it and those attending the NetSuite SuiteWorld conference immediately got pitches. On the conference's second night, there were Acumatica personnel stage along the route with signs showing the way to that vendor's reception in another hotel. Placed near them were representatives reportedly  not employees, of hometown cloud vendor, Intacct, handing out maps to the city.

SilverSun Technologies, the parent of Sage reseller SWK Technologies, had a miserable balance sheet when it ended fiscal 2012 on December 31. It had a bit more than $4,000 in cash with accounts receivable rising. With the end of the first quarter on March 31, the asset side looks far better. Cash stood at $261,000 and receivables of $1.2 million were down 21 percent from three months earlier.

Sage is rolling out its hybrid cloud products this year with Sage 200 being tested in the United Kingdom. The plan is to follow with Sage 100 in France with Sage 300 (Accpac) moving into the hybrid cloud in the United States by the end of the year. That rough schedule was outlined by the company's chief executive Guy Berruyer during the company's recent earnings webcast. Read more...

In a keynote laden with competition bashing, NetSuite CEO Zach Nelson said NetSuite was introducing its manufacturing application. Officially, the  new cloud system, already available, provides "manufacturers robust capabilities to more efficiently manufacture, forecast, price, track and schedule products, with a focus on design and a single platform for both B2B and B2C distribution." Read more...