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SMB RESEARCH GROUP FORMS

A new research organization, the SMB Group, has formed to provide research, analysis and consulting services for vendors serving the SMB technology market. It was founded by analysts Sanjeev Aggarwal and Laurie McCabe. McCabe has been an attendee at many conferences held by ERP vendors over the years.  She spent five years at AMI Partners and is also an affiliate analyst for Hurwitz & Associates.  Read more...

INTUIT'S QBES STILL ON A ROLL

QBES BoxSales of QuickBooks Enterprise Solutions outpaced much of the market as shown by Intuit's report of its second quarter ended January 31. The company said it had 41,000 active users (users on maintenance) at the end of the period. That was up by 17 percent from the 35,000 users a year earlier. Read more...

ACUMATICA BUILDS CHANNEL IN INDONESIA

Probably no one expects to be affected by the growth of Bethesda, Md.-based Acumatica, which markets SaaS-based financial software through its Indonesian arm. But I think that if I were a reseller, I would want any vendor that I might partner with to be viable in more than just the United States. Read more...

VAR REALIGNMENT BUILDING

Align goldIt isn't hard to see more evidence of the realignment of resellers who have been selling midmarket financial packages. Last week's newsletter talked about the realignment in the Microsoft channel, which included five major resellers putting together a distribution group.  This week's edition has information about the decision of CBIZ to get out of the market and, the split of the former Faye Pollack & Associates into two organizations, one selling infrastructure and networking products, the other pursuing the accounting software dream. Read more...

FPA GETS LEVEL PLATFORM AWARD

FPA Technology Services (formerly known as Faye Pollack & Associates) has been named Partner Innovator of the Year by Level Platforms. The company said the award recognizes Craig Pollack of FPA Technology Services for advancing the innovative use of Level Platforms Managed Workplace. The Rookie of the Year award was given to Aaron Donaldson of RSM McGladrey. Read more...

ACCOUNTEDGE FOR WINDOWS DEBUTS

Acclivity, which took over the operations of MYOB in North America, has introduced AccountEdge for Windows 2010. This is one of the last steps away from the use of the product and company names of MYOB, which started years ago in Rockaway, N.J., but whose focus is now in countries like Australia.  Read more...

CONVERGENCE ATTENDANCE PUSH ON

Convergence logoThe push to get attendees to Microsoft Convergence at the end of April is on. Perhaps I haven't paid attention to this in past years, but it does seem like there's more effort going into putting notices on resellers' home pages and into the Dynamics community of Microsoft's Web site than in prior years. Is that because the economy has the host making an extra effort or Microsoft is also worried that not everybody is eager to rush to Atlanta?

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CBIZ LEAVING TECHNOLOGY BUSINESS

Steve GerardCBIZ, the Cleveland, Ohio-based professional services firm, has decided to get out of the technology business, including the sale of midmarket accounting products. The what I like to call a sort of accounting firm classified its three technology units as discontinued operations effective with the end of its year on December 31 and is winding down the operations as current installations are completed. Read more...

AICPA TOP TEN STATUS; SAME AS REPORTED

AICPA logoYou’d think I killed somebody’s puppy after the last newsletter reported that the AIPA’s Top Ten Technologies for 2009 was being delayed until after April 15 and that that a change in the format was being considered. Somehow that got translated into some comments this newsletter said it was killed. I don’t see that anywhere what I wrote.

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ACCUFUND INTEGRATES LOAN TRACKER IN SUITE

On the heels of introducing Version 3.09 of the AccuFund Accounting Suite, AccuFund has integrated its stand-alone Loan Tracker Module in the suite. The Needham, Mass.-based company said Loan Tracker is used by economic development organizations, housing agencies and tribal communities. Read more...

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