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SAGE ONE AT RETAIL; AND WHY?
- Monday, 11 February 2013
- News and Analysis
- Written by mark
During tax season, I usually browse the software shelves at Staples. This year, beneath the Sea of Green, the Intuit section of the software display which takes its name from the green QuickBooks boxes, were a couple of starter kits for Sage One, Sage's low-end online accounting package. The boxes were on the bottom shelf of a multiple-shelf display and if you could read the boxes without kneeling on the floor then you either have very good eyes (maybe very young) or opera glasses.
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CHANNEL MANAGER LEAVES KEYEDIN
- Monday, 11 February 2013
- News and Analysis
- Written by mark
Patrick Coulbourne, a former Epicor channel guy, has left the position of VP of channels and ecosystems for Keyedin Solutions. Coulbourne held the job at KeyedIn, from January 2012 through this month. He had been senior director of channels for Epicor from January 2010 until his departure there and had been one of the few Epicor channel people that in the last few years to make an effort to talk to the press about the Epicor channel without having to be pursued.
DYNAMICS MISSING REV GOALS?
- Monday, 11 February 2013
- News and Analysis
- Written by mark
A strong message came through in the last month that all is not well in Dynamics land. The specific bad news is the claim that the company fell short of its revenue goals in the first half of fiscal 2013, except that CRM Online bailed everything out. Officially, Dynamics revenue was up by 12 percent for the second quarter ended December 31. But there is a claim that Kirill Tatarinov, head of Microsoft Business Solutions, and the U.S Dynamics sales VP are delivering the bad news on meeting numbers in meetings with the channel aimed at getting things moving.
BTERRELL PICKS UP INTACCT
- Friday, 08 February 2013
- News and Analysis
- Written by mark
After a period in which reseller signings spewed out regularly, Intacct has been quiet for a while. During the last week, it announced the enlistment of BTerrell Group, a Dallas-based Sage reseller with CPA roots. Headed by Brian Terrell, the firm was known as Terrell & Terrell CPAs until two years ago. But it was the rare case of a CPA organization that was really a reselling firm under a CPA label.
XERO TIES WITH HARVEST
- Friday, 08 February 2013
- News and Analysis
- Written by mark
Xero is integrating its financial application with time tracking and invoicing software from Harvest, a New York City-based cloud vendor. It is part of a steady stream of extensions of functionality via acquisition or integrations added by New Zealand-based Xero over the last year. The acquisitions include practice management company, Max Solutions Holding, and Australian online payroll company, PayCycle, while the integrations include links to Bill.com, Automatic Data Processing.
SAP CHANNEL EFFORT DISJOINTED?
- Friday, 08 February 2013
- News and Analysis
- Written by mark
Over the last year, it’s been hard to shake the impression that SAP’s channel machinery for Business One and Business ByDemand is not a smooth working operation. Two years ago this month, SAP threw a great channel meeting in Savannah, Ga., one of the best-run events I have ever attended. There has not been follow through. That came to mind when Navigator Business Solutions sent a press release about its being named top VAR in the United States.
NEW MACONOMY; BLEND OF CPA SYSTEMS
- Thursday, 07 February 2013
- News and Analysis
- Written by mark
From a cursory view, you might want to tag Deltek Maconomy Public Accounting Solution as an accounting system. But the new application, aimed at accounting firms with 75 or more employees, really blends ERP with traditional CPA practice management and project and customer relationship management capabilities. It is a “view of the entire practice,” says Drew West, who leads product marketing for the Maconomy effort. He continues that, “The CPA firms tend to view their business in terms of the relationship with their clients.”
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SAGE FORMS TECHNOLOGY ADVISORY GROUP
- Thursday, 07 February 2013
- News and Analysis
- Written by mark
Sage has formed a Technology Advisory Group that draws members from inside the highest levels of the company and from outside experts. The official statement from the Sage Group says the committee will meet four times a year and act as a sounding board for the company and provide independent thinking on technology issues. This includes keeping "keeping abreast of developments in the wider technology sector."
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CORKERY NAMED DELTEK CEO
- Wednesday, 06 February 2013
- News and Analysis
- Written by mark
Acting CEO Mike Corkery has moved into the top Deltek job permanently. Corkery, the company's CFO, took on the interim role in December following the departure of Kevin Parker. Parker left after private equity investment firm, Thoma Bravo, purchased the project accounting software company for $1.1 billion and took it private. Corkery joined the company in January 2010. From November 2007 to February 2010, Corkery served in the roles of acting CEO, EVP and CFO at ICO Global Communications.
ALFAPEOPLE GETS NEW CFO
- Wednesday, 06 February 2013
- News and Analysis
- Written by mark
Dynamics retail specialist Alfapeople has been getting a new look in its upper management levels in the last few months. In October, Per G. Mikkelsen, the founder and former general manager of Alfapeople U.K., moved to Seattle to work as worldwide director of business development. Last month, the company promoted Oliver Baur, the head of its Swiss operations, to the position of chief financial officer and chief technology officer for the parent, Alfapeople Group.
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