News and Analysis (15705)
NEW MACONOMY; BLEND OF CPA SYSTEMS
- Thursday, 07 February 2013
- News and Analysis
- Written by mark
From a cursory view, you might want to tag Deltek Maconomy Public Accounting Solution as an accounting system. But the new application, aimed at accounting firms with 75 or more employees, really blends ERP with traditional CPA practice management and project and customer relationship management capabilities. It is a “view of the entire practice,” says Drew West, who leads product marketing for the Maconomy effort. He continues that, “The CPA firms tend to view their business in terms of the relationship with their clients.”
Read more...
SAGE FORMS TECHNOLOGY ADVISORY GROUP
- Thursday, 07 February 2013
- News and Analysis
- Written by mark
Sage has formed a Technology Advisory Group that draws members from inside the highest levels of the company and from outside experts. The official statement from the Sage Group says the committee will meet four times a year and act as a sounding board for the company and provide independent thinking on technology issues. This includes keeping "keeping abreast of developments in the wider technology sector."
Read more...
CORKERY NAMED DELTEK CEO
- Wednesday, 06 February 2013
- News and Analysis
- Written by mark
Acting CEO Mike Corkery has moved into the top Deltek job permanently. Corkery, the company's CFO, took on the interim role in December following the departure of Kevin Parker. Parker left after private equity investment firm, Thoma Bravo, purchased the project accounting software company for $1.1 billion and took it private. Corkery joined the company in January 2010. From November 2007 to February 2010, Corkery served in the roles of acting CEO, EVP and CFO at ICO Global Communications.
ALFAPEOPLE GETS NEW CFO
- Wednesday, 06 February 2013
- News and Analysis
- Written by mark
Dynamics retail specialist Alfapeople has been getting a new look in its upper management levels in the last few months. In October, Per G. Mikkelsen, the founder and former general manager of Alfapeople U.K., moved to Seattle to work as worldwide director of business development. Last month, the company promoted Oliver Baur, the head of its Swiss operations, to the position of chief financial officer and chief technology officer for the parent, Alfapeople Group.
Read more...
EQUATION FOLDS INTO BAASS
- Monday, 04 February 2013
- News and Analysis
- Written by mark
Equation Technologies, based in Richmond Hill, Ontario, has merged into Baass Business Solutions. Both companies are historic Sage resellers and the Sage base in Canada has been consolidating over the last two years. Last year, Equation acquired the Sage practice of Balgord Software Solutions. Baass reported revenue of $10.5 million (Canadian) in its VAR Star form for 2012.
Read more...
AVALARA BUYS TAX TECHNOLOGY SERVICES
- Monday, 04 February 2013
- News and Analysis
- Written by mark
Sales tax vendor Avalara has acquired Tax Technology Services which makes cloud-hosted sales tax exemption certificate management systems. Founded in 2002 by owner Silvia Aguirre, TTS, based in the Raleigh-Durham area of North Carolina, developed CertCapture, which acquires, maintains, and retains exemption and resale certificates, use tax certificates, W-9s, and excise tax documents.
SERENIC REVS DROP; LOSS GROWS
- Monday, 04 February 2013
- News and Analysis
- Written by mark
Serenic reported a sharp increase in its loss for the third quarter ended November 30 as revenue dropped by 8 percent. Those results came as the company noted important upcoming changes to its product line. On the financial side, the loss rose to $191,186 for the most recently ended quarter, up 84.6 percent from $103,595 a year ago. Revenue for the third quarter was $2.4 million, down from $2.62 million in last year’s corresponding period. All figures are in Canadian dollars.
NETSUITE BOOSTING CHANNEL SPEND
- Friday, 01 February 2013
- News and Analysis
- Written by mark
The NetSuite formula continued in its fourth quarter ended December 31: Revenue, non-GAAP earnings, the GAAP loss and size of deals all grew. And CEO Zach Nelson took whacks at Microsoft and SAP and for the first time, DemandWare. So lets talk about the channel. In this week’s fourth-quarter earnings webcast, Nelson said “Next year [2013] we will be investing more in indirect sales than in direct sales proportionately.”
Read more...
SAP LETS CHANNEL INTO PARTNEREDGE
- Friday, 01 February 2013
- News and Analysis
- Written by mark
SAP has expanded its PartnerEdge program to enable members of its channel resell, service and build applications on top of the SAP Cloud. SAP says it has simplified the process by replacing contracts for individual products with a single contract. The company is also bringing 500 members of the Success Factors channel into the program.
COLUMBUS INTROS SUPPORT PROGRAM
- Friday, 01 February 2013
- News and Analysis
- Written by mark
Dynamics reseller Columbus has introduced ColumbusCare for its global operations. The Denmark-based VAR says the offering features best systems and practices. Plans also include support and optimization of business applications with tiered service and pricing levels, along with a variety specialized services.
Most Read
-
-
May 19 2021
-
Written by BobWScott
Just what kind of year has it been for the…
-
-
-
May 22 2017
-
Written by mark
The last year has been one of change—the cloud has…
-
-
-
May 22 2017
-
Written by BobWScott
The last year has been one of change—the cloud has…
-
-
-
May 25 2016
-
Written by mark
Annual Report: 2016 BSI Top 100 VARs The web has…
-