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MICROSOFT, SALESFORCE SETTLE ON PATENTS

Microsoft said it has received compensation from Salesforce.com under a patent infringement case it had brought against the latter company, but provided few details. In a press release, the Redmond, Wash.-based company said it had settled the cases including those Salesforce.com had also filed against Microsoft. The agreement gave Salesforce.com coverage under Microsoft's patent portfolio with reciprocating coverage for Microsoft under Salesforce.com’s patent program. Read more...

ARXIS SIGNS ON TO BBD

David CieslakWith a burst of enthusiasm, Arxis Technology, which has a pretty good reputation around the Sage community, has signed on as a reseller of SAP's Business By Design. And David Cieslak, one of two Arxis principals, said the product "is truly impressive. It's not just ground up ERP software. It is truly a whole different way of looking at things." Cieslak said the implementation process and methodology is built into the software, and he believes that SAP has handed the product over to "whole different team and saying we want it to be successful and we aren’t taking no for an answer." Read more...

ACTIVANT SHOWS MODEST IMPROVEMENT

Activant Solutions, which sells specialized ERP applications, came out of the third quarter ended June 30 with a slight uptick in revenue on a 56.5-percent increase in net income, the later helped out by a $6.2 million after tax gain on the sale of its tools business. There was also a 4.2-percent decline in operating revenue. But still there was a big bright spot with systems revenues rising to $30 million, an 11.8-percent increase from $26.8 million last year which more than offset services revenue of $6.5 million, which was off just under 3 percent from $62.3 million a year earlier. Read more...

CHERCHEZ LE SAGE X3

The Houston-based Rand Group has become the latest (well that I know of) reseller to sign up for Sage X3. This was announced on July 30, but press releases from resellers sometimes don't come my way. Still, it's interesting because Rand started as a pure Microsoft shop, took on Timberline from the debris field left by the MIS Group in September 2009 and now makes this addition of what's viewed as among the most promising Sage products. Read more...

NETSUITE REPORTS PATENT TALKS

There’s nothing more to the information posted in NetSuite’s 10Q for the second quarter ended June 30 than one very general paragraph. But the way it’s written that has me believing this could prove to be very interesting. In the words of the document, "A large technology company has written us a letter alleging that we infringe some of their patents. We have subsequently met and discussed these patents with that party and they have requested that we negotiate a license for them of such patents and other patents within their patent portfolio." Read more...

NET@WORK MOBILE CRM APP RELEASED

New York-based Sage reseller Net@Work has released OnTheGo for Sage SalesLogix CRM for iPhone and Android phones with a Blackberry version expected soon. With OnTheGo, smartphone users can access their SalesLogix 7.52 CRM databases and the SalesLogix Cloud edition. There will be three versions, OnTheGo, OnTheGo Plus and OnTheGo Platinum, which is planned to offer expanded read/write capability. Read more...

FACEBOOK PAGE (MINE) HACKED

The 257 friends I currently have on Facebook were startled to get an offer of a free iPod from me (sorry, only one per customer). Of course, I don't deal in volume and that must have happened right before I tried to get back into Facebook and I was notified my account had been suspended for suspicious activity. This must spread itself through from one person’s friends list to the lists of those friends, and so on; the way some viruses will email themselves to everybody in the Outlook contact database. Read more...

VMWARE SHOWS VIRTUALIZATION SIZZLE

The best way to measure the interest in virtualization technologies is to look at VMware's financial results for the second quarter ended June 30. In a not-so-hot economy, the company more than doubled net income on a 47.9-percent increase in revenue. Earnings were $74.5 million in the quarter, an increase of 129 percent over $32.5 million in the year earlier second quarter. Revenue for the most recently ended period was $673.9 million, compared to $455.7 million in last year's corresponding quarter. Read more...

SPEEDTAX AND UHY HOOK UP

SpeedTax, which makes Internet-based sales-and-use tax applications, has struck a deal under which UHY Advisors utilizes SpeedTax Pro  to handle clients' sales tax returns and remittance services. A spokesperson described the arrangement as enabling Chicago-based UHY to essentially white label SpeedTax Pro. The company anticipates reaching similar agreements with other professional services and CPA firms. Read more...

EPARTNERS FOUNDER JOINS NAVIGATOR

Robert Dunikoski, who founded the company now known as ePartners, has joined Navigator Business Solutions as head of its SAP Business One practice. The national chain, which once had nearly $100 million in revenue, was called TexSys RD when Dunikoski founded it in 1992 and began buying other resellers to create a national presence. Dunikoski is based in Dallas and joined Navigator in June. Navigator, headquartered in Salt Lake City, is an SAP specialist that also carries Business By Design and All-in-One and said it has more than 400 companies as customers.

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