The 2012 class of Bob Scott's VAR Stars will be announced next week. The special publication in which the names are revealed will be available as a PDF that will be downloadable from this site. And as usual, major trends in the midmarket reselling business will be discussed in tandem with our listing of 100 quality resellers. This year's list contains a number of first timers, along with familiar names of top performers. Read more...

Acumatica has relocated its headquarters from Bethesda, Md., to Kirkland, Wash. The vendor says the new office will be open on December 3. COO Yury Larichev says the move is designed to give the company access to the talent pool in Washington to support plans to double channel partner sales, pre-sales consulting and other operational areas next year. He said it would also enable Acumatica to develop strong channel partner support on the West Coast. Microsoft’s cloud platform,” added Larichev. He noted the software engineering team remains in Russia

 

 

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Marketing automation is going to become a major area of investment for Microsoft Dynamics CRM, according to the company’s latest statement of direction. That statement describes a “focus on driving a new category of integrated marketing solutions.” Read more...

The Rand Group, a Houston, Texas-based Dynamics reseller, has picked up assets and employees of SMBology. Founded in 2003, SMBology has described itself as offering strategic consulting, user experience design, and application development. In its announcement, Rand emphasized the expansion of services by adding a suite of business applications and custom business intelligence dashboards based on Microsoft Sharepoint.

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