SAP is rolling out a subscription-based hosted version of SAP Business One with the product scheduled for this country later this year. Hosted B1 is already available in China, France, Germany, India, Italy, Southeast Asia, Spain and the United Kingdom. The company said hosting will be available only through its partners such as CAP Solutions, Datalab, Fasttrack, Onyx and Seidor.

SAP likes to talk about feet on the street when asked about the size of its reseller channel, so it seemed a good time to look at the Business By Design "Find a Partner" tool on the SAP page.  Since it doesn't include some resellers who have been announced, Arxis Technologies for example, I'm not sure how this list was put together. But there are 79 resellers on this list, some of these multiple locations of the same VAR, for example, three locations of CPA firm Sikich Read more...

Cougar Mountain Software plans to rebuild its reselling channel, and along the way it may also start a CPA program. The dealer channel once had hundreds of members, but the company wanted to get rid of the non producers. "We cut too deep," says Kristine Terrell, who manages the company’s channel programs. That left Cougar with about 70 dealers and areas in which the company lacks geographical coverage. Among the changes are a reduced signup fee of $500. That had formerly been $1,000 or $2,000, depending on the program the VAR selected. The fee includes training and support. The company is also considering a coop program and offers a lead referral service. As to a CPA program, "we haven’t totally ironed that out yet," she said. "But I think we will do it."