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FINANCIALFORCE OFFLOADS HCM

Tod Nielsen, FinancialForce FinancialForce has decided to turn its human capital management business over to ADP. The decision was announced at the cloud software company's CommunityLive conference this week. CEO Tod Nielsen, on the job for six months, said the company needs to focus on what it can do best.

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ROSE OFFERS VAR SALE INSIGHTS

Linda Rose, retired resellerLinda Rose, who has exited the Dynamics reselling hosting and reselling business, has put together facts and observations about the sale of various kinds of business in the industry. The bottom line was a calculation of valuations from Rose, who sold her reselling company, Rose Business Solutions, in 2013, and hosting company, RoseASP, this year.

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AICPA TO FUND TECH STARTUPS

Lawson Carmichael, AICPAThe American Institute of CPAs and its for-profit subsidiary, CPA.com will provide up to $20,000 each in funding to early-stage companies who are among five finalists in a new program, CPA.Com Startup Accelerator. Finalists will have the opportunity to showcase their products at AICPA Engage 2018 in June that year.

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ACUMATICA OFFERS SAGE MIGRATION

Ali Jani, AcumaticaAcumatica has launched the Acumatica Cloud Migration Suite for Sage 100/MAS 90. A preview release is available with Acumatica Labs available to perform an initial analysis followed by the "go live" conversion, which can be done in the labs or directly by a VAR.

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SYSPRO LEARNING CHANNEL LAUNCHED

Louise Thompson, Syspro Syspro has launched a Learning Channel, an online educational resource. The channel offers students personal dashboards that display courses they are enrolled in, content and lessons covered and awards, and incentives and rewards they have acquired.

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AKA HIRES CLOUD PRACTICE LEAD

AKA Enterprise Solutions has named Greg Inks as cloud practice lead. Inks will manage an effort that includes the following areas: cloud strategy consulting, cloud infrastructure engineering, cloud managed services and native cloud application development.

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DYNAMICS 365 COLLABORATION

Rickard Hannson, IncentiveIncentive has launched Dynamics Connect, which is designed to enable users of Dynamics 365 to collaborate. The application, embedded in Dynamics 365, helps any entity within Dynamics 365 to collaborate through via a variety of methods.

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RANDOM THOUGHTS: COMEY

James Comey, former FBI directorI think we are working on a new saying—as sure as a British election. Let's have a referendum on Scottish independence, it won't even be close but we'll let them have a good feeling of having a say. ... Or let's vote on leaving the European Union—not a problem. The supporters will win.

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MICROSOFT BUYING SECURITY COMPANY

 Terry Myerson, MicrosoftMicrosoft has agreed to acquire Hexadite, which makes provides security products. Hexadite is described as providing agentless, automatic incident investigation and remediation applications. Terms were not disclosed.

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SAP: SOFTWARE ENSURES HIRING DIVERSITY

Bill McDermott, SAP at Sapphire 2017SAP's Sapphire conference was filled with the giant software maker's product announcements and the company's very broad role in social activism. And the company particularly talked about its program to ensure diversity in hiring and promotion.

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