When NetSuite readied itself for SuiteWorld conference earlier this month, CEO Zach Nelson promised an announcement that would be a revolutionary technology. That turned out to be SuiteCommerce, which the company labeled as Commerce as a Service. How revolutionary depends on your perspective as one analyst reacted that it was stuff that we’d heard before.

Version 5 of F9 for Dynamics SL has been released with new features designed to enhance its ability to work with Excel 2007 and 2010. Changes include new Task Panes so that users interact with F9 directly from the Excel spreadsheet. Also added are Reporting Controls displayed in a drop-down format for selection of filters while enhanced toolsets provide improved Analyze and Zero Suppress functionality.

Manufacturing Information Systems, a manufacturing software vendor, has named Nelson Rooker as director of software development. Rooker worked for Alcara Software for 13 years. MiSys, based in Woodstock, Vt., develops applications that work with Intuit’s QuickBooks and Sage 50 U.S. and Canadian Editions (formerly Peachtree and Simply Accounting), and Sage 300 (formerly Accpac).