Cloud software vendor Intacct has handed out awards to three top partners with accounting firm Armanino taking away the honor as VAR Partner of the Year for the second consecutive year. AcctTwo was selected as Business Partner of the Year for the third year in a row and Radius, formerly High Street Partners, was named the Accountants Program Partner of the Year for the second straight year. Intacct said in a prepared statement that Armanino was "recognized for its nationwide sales success, outstanding implementation efforts, and cloud evangelism."

MYOB hasn’t been in the United States since it spun out the Acclivity Group, which markets AccountEdge, late in 2008.  But with its decision to invest in Acumatica, MYOB has become worth looking at. And in its financial report for the first half ended June 30, the company mentioned its plan to introduce a cloud product for larger businesses in 2015, presumably the MYOB Advanced application mentioned at Acumatica’s recent partner summit. So let's look at the numbers. For the half, profit was about $830,000, compared to a loss of roughly $250,000 a year ago.

Manufacturing software vendor, QAD, expects the shift to the cloud will produce double-digit cloud revenue growth for the next few years. In the recent earnings webcast for the second quarter ended July 31, CEO Karl Lopker told analysts, “We can continue to grow the cloud business from 45 to 50 percent over the three-to-five year range.” That came as the Santa Barbara, Calif.-based company reported net income of $985,000 for the most recently ended period, down from $1.3 million year earlier.

Vertex SMB has continued on the path of signing high-profile firms as VARs with its recent agreement with Wipfli. The businesses issued a press release with the usual array of laudatory comments for each other. The nuts and bolts is Wipfli will market the Vertex SMB TaxCentral program to small and medium-sized business clients. This is the fourth reseller signing announced by the Berwyn, Pa.-based sales tax software vendor.