Unit4, which markets the Agresso and Coda lines, has entered the Australian market. The Netherlands-based vendor named Peter Simons as Director of UNIT4 for Australia and New Zealand. It had used distributors in Australia for the last decade. These organizations, Agresso Pty Ltd., Connexxion Business Solutions, and S1 Consulting & Software Services Pty Ltd., "will be key in taking UNIT4 solutions to market and providing services around them," the company said in a press release. But otherwise, Unit4 is seeking to build its market through direct sales. Simons was previously director of sales and marketing for Agresso Australia starting in November 2010 and until he took the new job in July.  Before that, he was general manager for Maximizer ANZ from January 2007 to November 2010.

NetSuite is not being subtle – is it ever? – in issuing a study that says Sage users are more tied to the desktop than the users of any other package. (I once knew a young lady who was tied to the desktop, but we won't get into that here.) NetSuite published a press release that reported a study conducted by YouGov "indicates that approximately three quarters of business leaders using Sage business software that were surveyed report having to access their business information from a desktop PC with client software installed, as opposed to through the cloud from any other device." YouGov, based in the United Kingdom, is described as a professional research and consulting organization.

The job of keeping the Microsoft Dynamics Partner Community Blog up to date has been turned over to a new editor. The duties have gone to Peter A. Jensen, whose bio on the website says he started out as a Dynamics Nav partner in 1992. (Wouldn't the product have been Avista then?) Jensen, who leads the Partner Programs team, takes over the position vacated by Kevin Machayya.

AccountMate intends to have a mobile application for tablets and smartphones on the market by the end of the year. The product is being developed by the company's long-time CRM partner, InfoTrac Solutions. AccountMate COO David Render told attendees at his company's recent reseller roundtable in Rosemont, Ill., that the product "works with installed AccountMate data and reports."