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EPICOR NAMES EMEA VPS

 Ian Walker , EpicorEpicor has named two executives to its EMEA team, both men with experience at Infor. The company has hired Ian Walker as SVP of sales for EMEA and Hermann Stehlik as regional VP For central Europe. The announcement is a bit of a delay. Read more...

MICROSOFT UPDATES PARTNER MOBILE APP

Partner Network logoMicrosoft has made Virtual Chat and dynamic updating available in Microsoft Partner Info Mobile App v3.0. But wait, there's more. (Sorry, I was having a late night attack). Available in the Windows Phone Marketplace, version 3.0 updates the app's appearance.

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AVECTRA HIRES ETAPESTRY FOUNDER

Jay Love, AvectraAvectra has hired Jay Love as SVP to develop its fundraising and donor management practice. Love served from June 2010 to July 2011 as CEO of Social Solutions, which provides outcome- and case-management software for social service agencies.

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THOMA BRAVO BUYING DELTEK

Holden Spaht, Thoma BravoPrivate equity scores another acquisition in the mid-market as Thoma Bravo is buying Deltek for $1.1 billion. The deal is for $13 a share, which Bloomberg News reported as 7.3 percent less than the August 24 closing price, but 24 percent more than on June 11, the day before the company confidentially shared information with potential buyers. Read more...

SKYYTEK BECOMES TACTICS CORP?

Ray Tetlow, SkyytekSkyytek, once a top cloud VAR, has been absorbed by Tactics Corp. The word "apparently" should be inserted here because although www.skyytek.com takes a visitor to the Tactics website, there is nothing that explains the different name. Skyytek was once NetSuite's top reseller but left that company in an acrimonious parting several years ago. Read more...

ARMANINO BUYS ACCESSTEK

Armanino McKenna has acquired AccessTek, a Naperville, Ill.-based reseller. The goal is to expand the Intacct practice of the San Ramon, Calif.-based accounting firm. AccessTek, which took on the Internet-based accounting application in 2010, was Intacct's Partner of the Year last year. It is headed by Lindy Antonelli, who joins Armanino on September 1 as a partner, along with her six employees.

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QURIUS DETAILS FATAL CASH DRAIN

qurius logoEuropean Dynamics reseller Qurius, fated to go from the Dynamics Inner Circle to liquidation in roughly 90 days, has put down the events that have produced its slated demise. In a pre-mortem - in the words of "Monty Python and the Holy Grail", "I'm not dead yet" - and not a post mortem, the company said that "By the end of May, Qurius was in such a shape that the cash position of the other operating companies was not enough to support Qurius Germany."

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ACUMATICA SUPPORTS AZURE

acumatica logoAcumatica has added the ability to deploy its applications on Windows Azure Virtual Machines as well as on Amazon Web Services. The company has provided installation wizards for cloud IaaS, Microsoft's Infrastructure as a Service offering, so that customers can follow instructions to deploy Acumatica to their chosen cloud provider Read more...

BRICKLIN KEYNOTING BIZNET CONFAB

Dan Bricklin, spreadsheet pioneerBizNet Software, which makes business intelligence applications, is holding its first Annual Excel User Conference - Excelapalooza. Gosh, if it could get even 1 percent of all Excel users. Well, maybe that isn't the idea. But the company made it interesting in getting the grandfather of the computer spreadsheet business, Dan Bricklin, as its keynote speaker. Read more...

UNIT4 SAAS REVS LEAP; AXES POLISH CEO

Uni4 LogoSaaS and subscription revenue grew by 20.1 per cent for Unit4, the company that markets the Agresso and Coda lines, for the half ended June 30. That outstripped the 4 percent increase in total revenue for the Netherlands-based company. But results in North America outpaced those figures, increasing by 25 percent over last year's corresponding period. Read more...

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