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AVALARA TARGETS $40M SALES
- Wednesday, 15 February 2012
- News and Analysis
- Written by mark
Avalara intends to increase its revenue to about $40 million for 2012, a roughly 50-percent increase from 2011 as it seeks to ramp up its business. The Bainbridge Island, Wash.-based company also plans to add 100 staffers this year to bring employment to 370, according to President Kevin Riegelsberger.
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EXACT NAMES CEO; FINALLY
- Wednesday, 15 February 2012
- News and Analysis
- Written by mark
Exact, which has been looking for a permanent leader for 18 months, has named Erik van der Meijden as its chief executive officer. Van der Meijden, who held several executive positions with HP, was CEO of Getronics until May 2011. He replaces Max Timmer who had been interim CEO since July 2011.
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SAGE’S WAYWARD VARS
- Friday, 10 February 2012
- News and Analysis
- Written by mark
Maybe the word wayward isn’t right, but I thought VARs with straying eyes did not fit the headline space. However, the fact that since January two major Sage resellers have taken on non-Sage products is a sign of the company’s continuing slowness to reach the cloud. (As opposed to Microsoft, which says it’s in the cloud, but really is not on the Dynamics line, except for CRM).
BLACKBAUD TESTS CPA PROGRAM
- Friday, 10 February 2012
- News and Analysis
- Written by mark
ACCOUNTMATE: MICROSOFT’S “LOST WORLD”?
- Friday, 10 February 2012
- News and Analysis
- Written by mark
AccountMate, which has gotten aggressive in channel recruiting, is now going after Microsoft resellers. That follows last year's campaign in which it targeted the Sage channel. In this case, the company's emailing is headlined "Is Microsoft telling you to "get lost"?
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CONSULTING PUSHES DOWN DELTEK RESULTS
- Friday, 10 February 2012
- News and Analysis
- Written by mark
Deltek returned to profitability in the fourth quarter ended December 31. And it had record product revenue for the year. However, a decline in consulting revenue held down total income for the last three months of 2011. The Herndon, Va.-based company reported net income of just over $3 million for the most recently ended quarter, compared to a year-ago loss of $7.9 million. Fourth-quarter revenue was $87.4 million, an increase of 1.4 percent from $86.1 million in last year’s corresponding quarter.
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SBS PICKS UP DENVER FIRM
- Friday, 10 February 2012
- News and Analysis
- Written by mark
The SBS Group, one of three Microsoft Master VARs, has signed 5280 Consulting as a member of its Partner Network. There are three Master VARs signing up smaller shops that sell Microsoft Dynamics. But for the last few months, SBS is the only one making noise. In this case, Denver-area-based 5280 is now part of the SBS Desert Mountain Region and has been selling Dynamics SL for more than eight years. The firm works in distribution, manufacturing, construction and professional services and also develops custom applications around SL. Gabriel Araujo, who leads 5280, is now managing director of SBS Group Denver.
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SAGE ONE GOES TO BETA IN U.S.
- Thursday, 09 February 2012
- News and Analysis
- Written by mark
Sage One, the company's online product for very small businesses, has gone into a limited beta test in the United States. (And remind me to read stuff on my own LinkedIn group more carefully since this was posted there in mid January.) The information was posted by product manager Mike Savory.
DELTEK: VISION, MACONOMY GOING SAAS
- Thursday, 09 February 2012
- News and Analysis
- Written by mark
Deltek plans a big year of product introductions with both its Vision and Maconomy lines to be made available in cloud versions this year. The broad outlines of the plan were discussed during this week's fourth quarter earnings conference call by CEO Kevin Parker.
SAP ROLLING OUT HANA FOR SMEs
- Thursday, 09 February 2012
- News and Analysis
- Written by mark
SAP will hit the market in March with versions of its Hana in-memory database technology for small and medium-sized enterprises. The company outlined the move downstream in a webcast this week. The products include Analytics Powered by Hana for SAP Business One. (I'd hate to have a title on my business card for, say, product manager for Analytics ...)
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