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QUICKBOOKS ONLINE TOPS 2M SUBS

Brad Smith, IntuitIntuit's QuickBooks Online rolled to a new highs with 2,220,000 when the third quarter ended on April 30, an increase of 59 percent over 1,397,000 million a year earlier. By comparison, when it ended its year on March 31, rival Xero just topped 1 million.

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SYSPRO WEB VERSION READIED

SysproSyspro plans to show a web version of Syspro 8 in the fourth quarter. The company will offer a dual interface so companies can choose to deploy a Web client or Windows client according to chief product officer Paulo de Matos. The product is designed for manufacturing and distribution users.

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SAP PUSHES HARD ON CHANNEL

Sean Thompson, SAPThe theme of "We Love the Channel" came through loud and clear at SAP's recent Partner Summit. It was announced both at keynotes and through interviews during that conference and its major event Sapphire, which was held the following days.

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SYSPRO SETS LYNQ, PROHIX ALLIANCES

Paulo de Matos, SysproSyspro has reached agreements that with Lynq and Prophix Software to extend the capabilities of Syspro's software. Linq's Smart Manager Manufacturing Execution System provides a compete manufacturing lifecycle, including planning, scheduling, publishing, collecting, tracking and analyzing.

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WHITHER THE SAGE CBCS?

Peter Biber, SageEighteen months ago, Sage opened its first Customer Business Center in Atlanta. It also opened a center in Dublin, Ireland. When the centers were first announced, the company said more would open "to revolutionize the way it supports customers around the world."

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MICROSOFT OPENS CLOUD DOOR?

Jon Roskill, AcumaticaMy thinking was that after Microsoft moved its Dynamics products to the cloud the behemoth would roll over competitors. That may have been a bit premature. Some admittedly brief conversations with resellers yielded a picture that Dynamics 365 Enterprise Edition is doing really well while Dynamics 365 Business Edition, not so well.

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SWK NET UP ON GROSS MARGINS

SWkSilverSun Technologies, the parent of reseller SWK Technologies, doubled its net profit on a 2.8-percent rise in revenue for the first quarter ended March 31. The results for Livingston N.J.-based SWK represent all of SilverSun's operations.

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PROFIT REAPS ACCOUNTMATE REWARD

AccountMateProfit Programming, a Hunts Valley, Md.-based reseller, has received the President's Award for 2016 from AccountMate. Founded in 1974, Profit also markets Tamlin Software Developers' Manufacturing Conductor and Accu-Dart's warehouse automation software.

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BYD: 10 YEARS, 18 NORTH AMERICAN VARS

Michael Schmitt, SAPThe midmarket reselling channel does not have fond memories of SAP's cloud-based Business By Design. But can it be 10 years we have been making fun of it? Yet, it did hit the market in 2007. Now, SAP is making another big push for ByD.

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RANDOM THOUGHTS: RESTING

Because of a very busy travel schedule, Random Thoughts is taking a week off. It will return next week, supposing things will be amusing enough.

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