Veteran Intuit staffer Rich Walker, who has handled public relations for the American accountant program, will direct the company's efforts to expand its accountant efforts in the English-speaking world. Walker has been named to the new position of director of accountant strategy and programs with the Intuit Global Business Division. Read more...

Sage is taking another look at its Business Partner Alliance Program, which is supposed to bring accountants and value-added resellers together.  However, not much has happened with the program in recent years. "We haven't been actively pursuing new connections between the VAR and the CPAs," says Jennifer Warawa, the senior director for partner programs for Sage North America.

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Intuit is planning a conference for the Intuit Solutions Provider program for September. Unlike the first two meetings, this one isn't open to the press. The official reason was since there are no announcements, there is no need for the press. Just for the record: going to a meeting to gather announcements is one of the dumbest reasons for the press to attend any event. Read more...

The cloud is starting to look like a do-it-yourself business as resellers wait for Microsoft and Sage to get to true SaaS offering. The latest to roll out its own offering is Tribridge, the Tampa, Fla-based reseller which has introduced Concerto Cloud Services. Included in the suite is Concerto Cloud Infrastructure which encompasses private cloud infrastructure for Dynamics AX, GP, SL, NAV and CRM. There is also Concerto Cloud Applications Integration to connect with public cloud solutions like Microsoft Office 365, Windows Azure, Microsoft Dynamics CRM Online and all can deployed directly to the Concerto Private Cloud. Read more...