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2012: SAP IN EXCELSIS
- Wednesday, 23 January 2013
- News and Analysis
- Written by mark
SAP’s message to Oracle during its 2012 earnings webcast was “We will bury you.” OK, so executives did not say that. It was more like “We are burying you” after the third or fourth time that co-CEO Bill McDermott said that the company was outgrowing its largest competitor. And to make sure the message was clear, McDermott said that “Just so there will be no doubt, I am talking about Oracle when I am talking about largest competitor.”
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CEO CHARDON TO LEAVE BLACKABAUD
- Wednesday, 23 January 2013
- News and Analysis
- Written by mark
CEO Marc Chardon will leave Blackbaud at the end of 2013 or earlier if the company can find a successor. According to the official statement from the Charleston, S.C.-based nonprofit vendor "Following his departure, Mr. Chardon intends to pursue business interests advising and investing in technology start-ups and devote more time to the philanthropic community." Read more...
MHANCE OPENS IN INDIA
- Wednesday, 23 January 2013
- News and Analysis
- Written by mark
M-hance, a Microsoft VAR based in England, has opened an office in Pune, India. The office will operate as a technical development center with the goal of launching more than 20 new products in key vertical markets in 2013. M-hance was formed in 2011 through the amalgamation of several Dynamics resellers in the United Kingdom. The company is not selling products in the United States but has a development office here.
ACUMATICA HIRES ENGINEERING VP
- Wednesday, 23 January 2013
- News and Analysis
- Written by mark
MICROSOFT, EPICOR INTRO RETAIL PRODUCTS
- Friday, 18 January 2013
- News and Analysis
- Written by mark
Anyone that is seriously in the retail business exhibited at the National Retail Federation conference in New York this week. And major players like Microsoft and Epicor took the opportunity to introduced new products as part of the usual fanfare surrounding this important event. Microsoft pushed out the latest version of Microsoft Dynamics for Retail while Epicor announced Epicor Retail CRM 7.0.
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COO BECOMES ACUMATICA CEO
- Friday, 18 January 2013
- News and Analysis
- Written by mark
Acumatica has promoted its relatively new COO to the job of CEO. Yury Larichev, who joined the company in April has taken over the position from Ezequiel Steiner who had been CEO since 2009. Steiner remains as president and a member of the board of directors. He will oversee strategy and operations and is responsible for the company's OEM business.
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QUICKEN GOING TO THE CLOUD
- Friday, 18 January 2013
- News and Analysis
- Written by mark
Intuit is writing a cloud version of Quicken, its decades-old personal finance application. The new platform will let both Mac and Windows users utilize the same code base, according to CEO Brad Smith. Smith made this comments at this week’s shareholder meeting in answer to a question from a shareholder who runs a business that serves clients using the Mac desktop product. She noted she made that complaint at the 2011 meeting and was hoping for good news for clients.Read more...
SAP BOOMS IN 2012; CLOUD HOT
- Friday, 18 January 2013
- News and Analysis
- Written by mark
The SAP financial express kept zipping along in 2012. The company reporting a 9-percent rise in operating profit on an 11-percent increase in revenue. Meanwhile, software revenue was 8-percent higher than in 2012. The company said operating profit reached about $2.13 billion in the recently ended year. Software revenue hit $1.94 billion and total revenue $6.7 billion.
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TWO PRONGED GP CERTIFICATION SET
- Thursday, 17 January 2013
- News and Analysis
- Written by mark
Microsoft has set up two tracks for developers to certify applications for Dynamics GP 2013. The company noted this ends the practice of the last five years in which there was a single set of certification requirements. Microsoft said the change is being made because "with the evolution of partner solutions from being primarily on-premise to a mix of on-premise and cloud solutions, we realized that a single set of requirements does not fit for all partners."
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RETAIL PRO ADDS LOYALTY SERVICES
- Thursday, 17 January 2013
- News and Analysis
- Written by mark
Retail Pro International has made available the AppCard customer loyalty service with its Retail Pro POS applications. The company said cloud-based AppCard requires no integration with the POS. The system works with both Retail Pro 9 and Prism and enables merchants to offer shoppers personalized offers, earn rewards and free gifts, and get live digital receipts via the AppCard smartphone app or Web account, AppCard also offers analytics with data accessible through a dashboard or by drilling down to reports. There is also a five-tier loyalty program so that customers can receive more rewards as they increase spending. Retailers can also tailor offers customers’ purchasing history, age, gender, buying preferences, geographic location
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