QuickBooks Enterprise Solutions strengthened its growth in the second quarter ended January 31. Intuit reported there were 80,000 active subscribers at the end of the period, a 25-percent increase from 64,000 a year earlier. That was up 4,000 subscribers or 5.2 percent from the prior quarter. Since sequentially quarterly growth has usually been an increase of 2,000 to 3,000 active subscribers, the 4,000-unit increase from the first to second quarter was an improvement.

SAP’s Business ByDesign financial application has moved to Hana, the company’s in-memory database platform. It is a system that SAP says provides significant increases in speed over traditional database technology. The company says the system also adds mass maintenance, invoice flexibility and multi-step approval processes for subsidiary and large enterprise integration and compliance processes. Read more...

Unit4, which markets the Agresso and Coda lines, reported that its SaaS subscription rose by 24.7 percent to about $63.5 million for the year ended December 31. And they accelerated in the fourth quarter, registering a rise of 27 percent. That came as the drop in product revenue accelerated in the fourth quarter. For the year, product revenue, which I assume includes license revenue and maybe more, was $100.9 million, an increase of 1.5 percent over 2011.

Socius has signed Maner Costerisan Business Solutions & Technology as a sales affiliate. Socius, a Microsoft Master VAR based in Dublin, Ohio, linked up with the group, which is part of Lansing, Mich.-based accounting firm Maner Costerisan. This is an interesting one because for a brief while, Maner Costerisan seemed to be getting more visible in technology, but this is a step away from a D-I-Y reseller business.