Maybe it’s the economy, that is, businesses out to save money opted for Intuit’s QuickBooks Enterprise Solutions. Whatever the case, there were 51,000 active customers at the end of Intuit’s second quarter ended January 31, up 24.3 percent from 41,000 from a year earlier. That’s an increase of 45.7 percent up from 35,000 two years earlier.

Deltek has named this year’s Premier Partners, a selection that should be getting easier given the attrition in the company’s channel.  Deltek says there are now more than 45 business partners, but the last time I looked the count is complicated by large vendors like Unisys. More interesting, is there is now a separate page for Premier Partners, which suggests the company wants to steer business to them.

Sage says that it has grown the customer base for its X3 software by more than 10 percent since the launch of X3 V6 just over a year ago.  About 300 new customers have been added in that time to bring the total global count to more than 3,000.