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SWK PARENT BOOMS

swk technologies logoSilverSun Technologies, which derives all its revenue from Sage reseller SWK Technologies, turned in a strong performance for 2011. Before we get to the bottom line, the company had operating income of $260,067 for the year ended December 31, compared to an operating loss of $937,117. Read more...

AVALARA PAIRS WITH MULESOFT

mulesoft-logoMuleSoft, which provides integration for cloud and on-premise applications, has released Avalara iApp4Tax, a cloud product developed in collaboration with Avalara. Avalara, a cloud-based sales-and-use tax vendor, provides an application programming interface and software development kit for building custom integrations.

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TECTURA OPENING UP DISTRIBUTION

Tectura logoTectura has decided to begin selling its proprietary products and applications globally through Dynamics resellers. Previously, the San Mateo, Calif.-based company has sold them only to its clients or through its own channel. Its life sciences industry technologies will be available beginning with all other technologies available on July 1.

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ALTARA BUYS FORMER KATALYS GROUP

katalys groupDynamics reseller Altara has acquired Innagen with the press release innocently saying the latter company is the former Katalys Group. But that appears to end a chapter in the evolution in Dynamics reselling as the Katalys Group was viewed as a buying group by Microsoft, the kind of operation it is trying to shut down.

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DYNAMICS AX PUSHING UPMARKET

Fred Studer, MicrosoftThe question is not if Dynamics AX is moving upmarket. The question is “How far can it go? And given the price of Tier 1 packages, there is a trend for products like AX and NetSuite to be pulled upstream, at least as a second-tier deployment for a company with the higher-priced systems. "When we talk enterprise, we are talking about companies with 250 PCs or more," said Fred Studer, GM of Dynamics product management. Read more...

JOB BOSS GETS STARTER EDITION

JobBoss, which has been one of the hottest products for Exact, now has a Start Edition. Exact said the package is design for smaller jobs shops to enable them to add the structure to compete with larger manufacturers. The company’s announcement said the product can create quick or highly detailed customer quotes and track labor, outside services and material costs. Perhaps the most important development is it integrates with QuickBooks and has Intuit QuickBooks Gold Developer Certification. Read more...

ACUMATICA ADDS PROJECT ACCOUNTING

acumatica logoAcumatica has added project accounting to its software suite with the availability of Version 3.0. And that goes to the head of a class because one reseller interviewed a few months ago chose Intacct over Acumatica primarily because the latter lacked that capability. Given the Solomon roots of the product and many of the resellers it has attracted, project accounting is an important addition.

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SWK BUYING HIGHTOWER

Jeff Roth, SWKSWK Technologies of Livingston, N.J., has signed a letter of intent to buy Hightower, or what's left of it. The press announcement from SWK's parent, SilverSun Technologies, said Hightower, based in Skokie, Ill., would add more than $3 million in revenue to SWK's operations. The move would make SWK one of Sage's largest North American VARs. Read more...

DYNAMICS CRM LOADING UP INFO

Craig Dewar, MicrosoftMicrosoft was busy promoting the spring release of CRM Anywhere at last week's Convergence user conference. But one of the biggest developments was the links the company is establishing with content providers such as Linkedin and InsideView. Of course, the first thing that went on in a demo by Craig Dewar was the use of mobile devices being supported in the new product, starting with the iPad, to work with the CRM packages.

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INTUIT'S AUSSIE ALLY WON'T RENEW

Clive Rabie, Reckon

Intuit's Australian software distributor, Reckon, has told Intuit it will not renew an agreement under which it has been selling Quicken and QuickBooks in that country. That includes QuickBooks Enterprise Solutions. Reckon filed documents with the Australian Stock Exchange in which it reported that the agreement expires on Feb. 14, 2014.

 

 

 

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