News and Analysis (15704)
NEW AVATAX INTROED.
- Friday, 09 December 2011
- News and Analysis
- Written by mark
Sales-and-use tax vendor Avalara has released its latest version of AvaTax. The new edition gives customers access to the Geo-Location Engine, which determines the exact location within a sales tax jurisdiction. To determine applicable taxes for a location, the tool utilizes latitude and longitude coordinates passed into a mapping engine that includes more than 11,000 taxing jurisdictions. The technology also supports cases where an address is not available, such as construction sites, or where an address has not yet been established.
ACCOUNTMATE TARGETS SAGE VARS
- Thursday, 08 December 2011
- News and Analysis
- Written by mark
Picturing Sage as flip flopping in the market, AccountMate has been targeting the competitor’s reseller base via an email campaign. “We got a gigantic response,” says CEO David Dierke. "We had triple the number than we had seen in the past." AccountMate has sold itself to prospective channel partners as a company in which VARs can reach executives.
SAGE GIVES HOUILLON STOCK
- Thursday, 08 December 2011
- News and Analysis
- Written by mark
Pascal Houillon, chief executive of Sage North America, has received a grant of 369,181 shares of Sage stock. At the current market price, the shares have a value of about $1.7 million. However, it takes a few years for all to vest. Houillon got the grant as a member of the executive committee. Since he is not a Sage Group director. Houillon’s salary does not become public. Other news of interest, but not terribly important to most of us, was that Lloyd’s Bank Group filed a noticed that its stock holdings have increased and are now about 6 percent of Sage’s shares.
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CEO: BYD STRONGEST IN GERMANY
- Thursday, 08 December 2011
- News and Analysis
- Written by mark
This is not going to come as a big surprise. But SAP Co-CEO William McDermott says that Germany is the strongest market for Business ByDesign. In his appearance at the Barclays Capital 2011 Global Technology Conference this week, he made comments that I have not heard previously about the cloud application and its strength in the company's home country.
Read more...SUGARCRM ON GROWTH PATH
- Thursday, 08 December 2011
- News and Analysis
- Written by mark
With new offices open in Raleigh, N.C., and Cambridge, England, SugarCRM is on a growth spurt that will see its work force double in a year. The company issued press releases announcing the new offices while Larry Augustin, CEO of the open source vendor, outlined plans recently at the Credit Suisse 2011 Technology Conference
MICROSOFT OUTSOURCES TO HITACHI IN FARGO
- Wednesday, 07 December 2011
- News and Analysis
- Written by mark
Microsoft has picked Hitachi Consulting, which also happens to be a Dynamics reseller, to supplement its Microsoft Business Solutions IT team located in Fargo, N.D. Hitachi will establish a technical development center in Fargo, the birthplace of Great Plains.
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INVESTOR WANTS CDC SOFTWARE CEO OUSTED
- Tuesday, 06 December 2011
- News and Analysis
- Written by mark
The strange tale of CDC Software continues as an investment firm has demanded the board of directors fire CEO Peter Yip. Meanwhile, NASDAQ is taking action to delist the company's stock and last month Deloitte & Touche resigned as outside auditor. Wynnefield Capital Funds, which owns 12.3 percent of the public float of CDC Software's Class A Common Stock, took uncommonly strange language over the board's decision to place Yip on medical leave instead of firing him after he was found to have lied under oath. Whew!
SAGE TO RESELL HR CLOUD APPLICATION
- Tuesday, 06 December 2011
- News and Analysis
- Written by mark
Sage North America is getting to the cloud in the human resource market by reselling another company's software. Sage has signed a reseller agreement via which it will sell CornerStone OnDemand's SaaS product "in conjunction with its Sage Employer Solutions line of HR management tools." The product will start getting to market through this deal early next year but getting it into the Sage channel is likely to be a gradual process.
INTACCT TARGETS DELTEK SPACE
- Monday, 05 December 2011
- News and Analysis
- Written by mark
Intacct's discussion of its new product launch indicates the company is looking at both Deltek and Dynamics SL VARs. But outside of the need for a shorter headline than one that mentions both competitors, many of the moves look a bit more aimed at the Deltek market. The cloud vendor's fall release features Intacct Services Resource Planning, ERP for project and services-related businesses. The company also announced an alliance with Clarizen via which Intacct and its channel will resell Clarizen's product which features elements such as work management and resource management.
NETSUITE SIGNS PHILLIPINES VARS
- Friday, 02 December 2011
- News and Analysis
- Written by mark
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