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INFOR INTEGRATES SAP APPS
- Friday, 16 December 2011
- News and Analysis
- Written by mark
Infor, which is trying to attract third parties through an integration platform, is delivering its ION connector for use with SAP applications. The company said it plans additional integrations with other companies’ applications, including multiple Oracle products. The Infor10 ION connector can also be utilized to develop integration with custom applications.
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MARKETING OFFICER LEAVES COUGAR
- Friday, 16 December 2011
- News and Analysis
- Written by mark
Mike Anderson, who served as chief marketing officer for Cougar Mountain Software, has moved to another company. Anderson held the job with the Boise, Idaho-based vendor from March through November of this year. His LinkedIn page shows he is now CIO/CMO at Landmark Home Warranty in South Jordan, Utah.
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SAGE DIRECTOR LEAVING
- Thursday, 15 December 2011
- News and Analysis
- Written by mark
Sage’s turnover is continuing at the top with the second director in a year announcing his plan to retire for the board. David Clayton, director of strategy and corporate development, said he would step down from his position at the annual meeting in February. In May, Paul Stobart retired from the board of directors.
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SYSPRO OFFERS MSC COLLECTOR
- Tuesday, 13 December 2011
- News and Analysis
- Written by mark
Syspro has agreed to offer MSC Collector from Ontario-based Manufacturing Systems Corp. MSC Collector is an application that provides warehouse management, shop floor data collection and shipping systems. MSC Warehouse Management is an advanced inventory optimization application and handles such functions as order, pick, pack and ship, bin and location management, advanced load planning, rules based picking logic and license plating. MSC Shop Floor Data Collection captures inventory movement and usage, direct and indirect labor as well as machine data from PLCs. MSC Shipping System automates the preparation of shipping documentation, including that required for export and hazmat, dramatically reducing manual efforts and labor costs.
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- Tuesday, 13 December 2011
- News and Analysis
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Sales-and-use-tax vendor Avalara is going mobile via a third-party app. The product, which will incorporate the company's geo-location technology, will be introduced early next year by developer Inner Fence. Geo-location is designed to determine taxing jurisdictions for other locations, including those under construction or with no address. Inner Fence markets mobile credit-card processing apps.
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CCH UPGRADES VAR PROGRAM
- Tuesday, 13 December 2011
- News and Analysis
- Written by mark
CCH has launched a new Partner Program for preferred VARs that handle its CorpSystem sales-and-use tax software. The company says there are "more options from the entire portfolio of CCH indirect tax solutions". But the real news may be this is the first we have heard from the CCH channel in about two years.
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NEW LAWSON RELEASE OUT
- Friday, 09 December 2011
- News and Analysis
- Written by mark
Lawson Software has introduced Infor10 Lawson SE, which the company termed a marriage of Infor and Lawson technology and products. Infor acquired Lawson four months ago and Infor pledged to keep Lawson going and to develop and integrate its product line. The latest version offers interfaces for users of either organization’s product line.
NEW AVATAX INTROED.
- Friday, 09 December 2011
- News and Analysis
- Written by mark
Sales-and-use tax vendor Avalara has released its latest version of AvaTax. The new edition gives customers access to the Geo-Location Engine, which determines the exact location within a sales tax jurisdiction. To determine applicable taxes for a location, the tool utilizes latitude and longitude coordinates passed into a mapping engine that includes more than 11,000 taxing jurisdictions. The technology also supports cases where an address is not available, such as construction sites, or where an address has not yet been established.
ACCOUNTMATE TARGETS SAGE VARS
- Thursday, 08 December 2011
- News and Analysis
- Written by mark
Picturing Sage as flip flopping in the market, AccountMate has been targeting the competitor’s reseller base via an email campaign. “We got a gigantic response,” says CEO David Dierke. "We had triple the number than we had seen in the past." AccountMate has sold itself to prospective channel partners as a company in which VARs can reach executives.
SAGE GIVES HOUILLON STOCK
- Thursday, 08 December 2011
- News and Analysis
- Written by mark
Pascal Houillon, chief executive of Sage North America, has received a grant of 369,181 shares of Sage stock. At the current market price, the shares have a value of about $1.7 million. However, it takes a few years for all to vest. Houillon got the grant as a member of the executive committee. Since he is not a Sage Group director. Houillon’s salary does not become public. Other news of interest, but not terribly important to most of us, was that Lloyd’s Bank Group filed a noticed that its stock holdings have increased and are now about 6 percent of Sage’s shares.
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