News and Analysis (15704)
SUITEYS HIGHLIGHT QB REPLACEMENT
- Monday, 21 May 2012
- News and Analysis
- Written by mark
No, NetSuite did not make a big deal about replacing QuickBooks in its first-ever Suitey awards. But in the six categories in which the displaced financial package was named, QuickBooks was involved in six of them. The Suiteys were handed out last week and replaced the infamous Hair Ball Awards.
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WAVE ACCOUNTING GETS $12 MILLION
- Friday, 18 May 2012
- News and Analysis
- Written by mark
Wave Accounting has secured $12 million in funding for its efforts to develop the market for its online accounting applications. Based in Toronto, Wave said the funding round was led by The Social+Capital Partnership with participation from existing investors Charles River Ventures and OMERS Venture.
INFOR NAMES NEW VP
- Friday, 18 May 2012
- News and Analysis
- Written by mark
Infor has named Ali Shadman as SVP of a new organization that it said would help customers upgrade to the company’s latest technologies. Shadman, who reports to CEO Charles Phillips, is responsible for building tools and programs to accelerate customer upgrades to the latest release of Infor applications. One specific goal was to utilize virtualization in hybrid cloud, on-premise deployments. Previously, Shadman was VP and chief technologist for HP’s Technology consulting division. He also held executive positions with Unisys over eight years in two different tenures with that company.
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EPICOR LICENSE REVS DROP
- Friday, 18 May 2012
- News and Analysis
- Written by mark
Epicor Software felt the impact of transition issues as software license sales fell by 14.2 percent with an overall revenue gain of 1.2 percent on a pro forma basis for the first quarter ended March 31. The company, reflecting the combined results of the former Activant Solutions and Epicor under the latter's name, reported a loss $9.5 million on revenue of $204.3 million.
INTUIT'S QBES KEEPS BOOMING
- Thursday, 17 May 2012
- News and Analysis
- Written by mark
Intuit's QuickBooks Enterprise Solutions continues its act as the company's Energizer Bunny. It just keeps going. Intuit ended the third quarter on April 30 with 64,000 active QBES customers, which was up 18.5 percent from the 54,000 at the end of the quarter a year earlier.
Read more...SAP FORECAST: CLOUDY WITH MORE CLOUDS
- Thursday, 17 May 2012
- News and Analysis
- Written by mark
SAP has put into motion what it called an acceleration of its cloud strategy. That's based on the recently completed acquisition of SuccessFactors, whose CEO and founder Lars Dalgaard is leading the effort. Beyond the broad scope, among the more immediate concerns to the channel is the company said it was accelerating release cycle of Business ByDesign from six months to six months.
SWK REVS UP, SOFTWARE SALES OFF
- Wednesday, 16 May 2012
- News and Analysis
- Written by mark
SilverSun Technologies, the parent of Sage reseller SWK Technologies, swung to a loss for the first quarter ended March 31 while revenue rose by 5.3 percent. The company lost $708,191 for the most recently ended quarter, compared to net income of $465,653 a year ago.
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SAGE ONE SLOPPED INTO U.S. MARKET
- Wednesday, 16 May 2012
- News and Analysis
- Written by mark
It was once the practice that when a company had a launch for what it considered an important new product, it would try hard to generate publicity. It would contact the press in advance of the launch date, schedule an event, set up interviews with product managers and executives and explain the new product.
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SAGE KICKING OFF BRAND CAMPAIGN
- Tuesday, 15 May 2012
- News and Analysis
- Written by mark
Sage is kicking off the Sage Today advertising campaign that is designed to spread the word of its new names for major lines. Since the PDF about the plan has been circulating, this is probably not news to many people. But for the others, this the first view of the big step in putting to rest historic names.
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EAGLE TO RETIRE AS ITA PREZ
- Tuesday, 15 May 2012
- News and Analysis
- Written by mark
Ron Eagle has announced that he will step down as president of the Information Technology Alliance in September. Eagle said it was time for new leadership after his 15 years in the position. Eagle presided over the organization when it transformed from Acute, which had started as a group of IBM PC users to the adoption of the new name minus the IBM sponsorship. ITA has two parts: the largely reseller oriented track and also the Internal Technology Leaders track for technologists from firms who are in the middle of the Top 100 of CPA organizations.
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