Financial results for SilverSun Technologies, parent of Sage reseller SWK Technologies, were strong for the third quarter ended September 31. SilverSun, whose only operations are those of SWK, posted net income of $248,165, compared to a loss of $82,219 in last year's corresponding period. Revenue hit $6.1 million in the most recently ended period, up 39 percent from $4.4 million. The company said it was a record quarter.

Intuit has integrated Qlikview with QuickBooks Enterprise Solutions. Intuit also says that it will integrate the newer Qlik Sense into future versions of QBES. The release from Qlik Technology says something that was not mentioned by Intuit when it discussed the introduction of Advanced Reporting for QBES, which is that Qlikview is powering the Intuit product. The new reporting tool is free to current users.

Sage has rolled out Sage View, which draws financial information from accounting software. It draws data from about any package into all of Sage packages and, what a minute, we've been here before haven't we? The issue is whether the target audience of accountants will use analytical software to serve clients any more than they did in the early 2000s. The last time I wrote about this, in 2009, I noted Thomson's lack of success with Financial Analysis CS module and the death of the CCH Profit Driver, built on the same tool uses it the Sage CFO package.

Intacct CEO Robert Reid indicated this week his cloud software company is not quite at the spot it can approach the market for an initial public offering. "It's pretty simple. Wall Street has a number of different metrics you have to have some substance and enough growth," he said at the company's Advantage conference this week. But the fact analysts were invited to the conference for the first time suggests the tune for the IPO dance is starting to play.