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BLACKBAUD: CRM TO GO DOWN-MARKET?
- Friday, 24 May 2013
- News and Analysis
- Written by mark
Blackbaud is mulling taking its high-end CRM offerings down-market. But since it has been talking about that for about two years, it's not clear how soon any such move would occur. At the recent J.P. Morgan Global Technology, Media and Telecom, CFO Anthony Boor., said, "CRM really brought us a new piece of the market and good growth." He continued, "The opportunity with CRM is to bring that down-market."
ADAPTIVE GETS $45M IN FUNDING
- Friday, 24 May 2013
- News and Analysis
- Written by mark
Adaptive Planning, which makes Internet-based budgeting systems, has received $45 million in its latest round of venture capital funding. That comes after it raised $22 million in March 2012, and which seems like a pretty good take when the two are added together. The Mountain View, Calif.-based company made the announcement at its Accelerate 2013 user and channel conference in San Francisco and so far, that's the only news released from that event.
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OPEN SYSTEMS LINKS WITH COMPUPAY
- Thursday, 23 May 2013
- News and Analysis
- Written by mark
Payroll provider CompuPay has inked a channel deal with accounting software vendor Open Systems. Both resellers of Open Systems' Traverse and Open Systems Accounting Software packages and their clients gain access to CompuPay’s Payroll Online service. "Some of our customers never want to do their own payroll and we wanted an offering that we could integrate with Traverse and OSAS," says Linda Shillingburg, VP of channel development for Minneapolis, Minn.-based Open Systems. CompuPay introduced its service to VARs and end users at the recent Open Systems conference in Las Vegas, Nev. Shillingburg says the CompuPay deal is part of a continued effort to make third-party products available to the channel and end users.
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XERO REVS RISE FASTER THAN LOSS
- Thursday, 23 May 2013
- News and Analysis
- Written by mark
Results at cloud vendor Xero continued to show sharp changes for the young company. The loss for the New Zealand-based company grew by about 82.3 percent, but revenue slightly more than doubled. The loss for the year ended March 31 was about $13.9 million while revenue reached $37.6 million. The news in the United States was good for Xero although it does not separate out totals for this country.
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QBES KICKS TICKING - USERS UP 28 PERCENT
- Tuesday, 21 May 2013
- News and Analysis
- Written by mark
Intuit's QuickBooks Enterprise Solutions kicks on ticking. I don't think we can use the rhyme - it takes a licking - unless it is to say Intuit is giving someone a licking. When the company's third quarter ended on April 30, there were 85,000 active QBES subscribers, up 28 percent from the 73,000 a year earlier. If this is really coming from the low end of the midmarket, it isn't helping VARs at the bottom of that arena.
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EXACT MACOLA GETS NEW LEADER
- Tuesday, 21 May 2013
- News and Analysis
- Written by mark
Exact, which has made its five North American products independent of the parent, has named Alison Forsythe as managing director of Exact Macola. She took over from Richard Emmons, who was doing the job on an interim basis, and his involvement must go back to last year when the Netherlands-based parent disposed of its American management. Exact CEO Erik van der Meijden said in a prepared statement that “We believe Alison is the perfect candidate to lead our Exact Macola organization toward sustained growth."
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PATEL OUT IN MAJOR INTUIT REORG
- Tuesday, 21 May 2013
- News and Analysis
- Written by mark
A major Intuit reorganization is leaving two high-level VPs without jobs. EVP Kiran Patel, who led the small business group, and SVP Alex Lintner, headed of its global business division, are leaving after Intuit's year ends July 31. But Patel, one of five named executives for SEC reporting, is the biggest change. His 2012 compensation $4,791,271 was only $47,000 higher than in 2011 and down from slightly more than $7 million in 2010.
MCACONNECT TAKES DYNAMICS AWARD
- Monday, 20 May 2013
- News and Analysis
- Written by mark
McaConnect, a reseller based in Denver, Colo., has won the Dynamics Industry Award. The award winners and finalists were announced as part of the run up to the Worldwide Partner Conference to be held July 7 through July 11 in Houston. A specialist in Dynamics AX, mcaConnect was No. 30 on the recently published Bob Scott's Top 100 VARs with $30 million in revenue. It is owned by Claude Watson. PowerObjects of Minneapolis, Minn., got the Dynamics CRM award and London-based eBecs took home the top spot for ERP.
NETSUITE LISTS NEW VARS, TOP PARTNER
- Thursday, 16 May 2013
- News and Analysis
- Written by mark
NetSuite has announced a number of new members of its reseller ranks. The word "new" is somewhat fuzzy as at least one of the companies was already on record. But here goes with the freshest names on the company list: Altico Advisors, Baass Business Solutions, Eide Bailly, Envisage Business Solutions, MorganFranklin Consulting and Project Partners.
SAN JOSE SIDEWALK WAR IN THE CLOUDS
- Wednesday, 15 May 2013
- News and Analysis
- Written by mark
Go outside the San Jose Convention Center and the hotels connected to it and those attending the NetSuite SuiteWorld conference immediately got pitches. On the conference's second night, there were Acumatica personnel stage along the route with signs showing the way to that vendor's reception in another hotel. Placed near them were representatives reportedly not employees, of hometown cloud vendor, Intacct, handing out maps to the city.
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