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SKYYTEK REFOCUSES

Ray TetlowSkyytek, a Business ByDesign reseller, has refocused the company’s operations. Although it still actively sells the SAP product, the company is emphasizing “We have morphed more into a management consulting company,” says CEO Ray Tetlow. Nominally based in Miami, Fla., the company effectively operates from an office in Hockessin, Del., and it is getting rid of most locations. As leases expire, offices are being closed since most consultants operate from their homes. “My ideal solution would be zero offices but it’s not practical,” Tetlow says Read more...

JOBBOSS GETS SYNERGY ENGINE

Scott LeeteExact has continued to connect its product line on to the Synergy platform. The latest product to get a connection is JobBoss with Version 11.4. The company says that the JobBoss XT business extensions are now powered by the Synergy Enterprise application. Among these extensions is the new Exact JobBoss TQM (Total Quality Management), whose capabilities include reporting, tracking and monitoring activity, along with tools to perform analysis and drive corrective actions and compliance. Other extensions utilizing Synergy include CRM and Workflow. Read more...

CCH EXPANDS CORPSYSTEM

CCH has integrated its CorpSystem Sales Tax Office with CertCapture Exemption Certificate Management Solution offered by Tax Technology Services. The integration lets purchases use CorpSystem’s tax rate and taxability content with CertCapture’s certificate monitoring, indexing, communications, Web Portal and audit response capabilities. CertCapture exemption certificate management features include digitized capture and management of paper and electronic; the ability to collect certificates from customers via e-mail, fax, mail or Web Portal and add them directly to the client database along with the ability to ensure certificates are valid and accurate.

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MICROSOFT NAMES WINNERS

Xacpt logoIn the newly aligned Microsoft awards, XAPT, was the ERP partner of the year and hardly a newcomer to awards.  XAPT was the Dynamics AX Excellence Partner of the Year Award in 2006 and 2008. While it’s listed as a U.S. company in the press release, the XAPT web site shows it as a Hungarian company, owned by New Frontier Holding, with branches in the U.S. and other countries. Read more...

NETSUITE EXPANDS IN N.Z.

NetSuite logoNetSuite has moved into the New Zealand market with a deal with Liberate I.T. You’d think this was a World War II announcement of an amphibious invasion as the press release speaks of Liberate as “a progressive firm liberating New Zealand businesses from I.T. hassles.” Liberate will provide implementation and support services and also has practices in wholesale/distribution, manufacturing, and professional services. Liberate is the child of a traditional ERP company, Soltius, which is otherwise an SAP house. Soltius handles Business 1, All-in-One, Business Objects, SAP ERP and NetWeaver. Its website does not, however, show Business ByDesign in the lineup. I am assuming this orientation has something to do with its creation of a unit to handle NetSuite.

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UNIT 4 OFFERS “SHARED JOURNEY”

Unit 4 has launched Share Journey for public and private sector organizations for both Agresso Business World and Coda Financials. Shared Journey is designed to let groups of companies establish a shared services operation based on either ERP line. The system is available with three components. These include a virtual machine environment of choice allowing grouped users to migrate to whatever cloud/hardware environment suits them best. There is also a private/public cloud environment and a redundant web backbone and data storage hub. The cloud deployment is managed by Unit4 IT Solutions on the Unit4 Hybrid Computing Platform. Read more...

LAWSON REPORTS 4Q

Lawson logoIn what was presumably its next-to-last report of fourth quarter results, Lawson Software this week handed out preliminary numbers. It expects revenue for the quarter ended May 31 to be in the range of $208 million to $212 million. That compares with year-ago revenue of $197 million. Earnings per share are expected to range between six and seven cents per share, compared to two cents a year ago. Read more...

ACCUFUND INTROS EMPLOYEE PORTAL

Nonprofit vendor AccuFund has introduced an Employee Portal as a new web-based component in its AccuFund Accounting Suite. The portal’s customizable interface enables organizations to provide employee access to organizational news and personal information. It can be utilized through an internal network or over the web via an SSL connection. Employees see only information designed for them and their department. PDFs of documents such as health enrollment forms can be attached for printing or download. Read more...

FISHBOWL BUYS OUT SHAREHOLDER

David WilliamsThe management and employees of Fishbowl Inventory have purchased all the interest from what was described as a former majority shareholder.

There were a lot of glowing statements of praise from CEO David Williams and president Mary Michelle Scott, but little on the details other than the employees now own 100 percent of stock. The statements  did not disclose the price or the name of the former shareholder. Read more...

SIKICH PICKS UP EPICOR

Sikich logoSikich, the Aurora, Ill.-based accounting firm, has added Epicor ERP to its financial software application line up. The addition was made in the last month and follows its December announcement of SAP’s Business ByDesign. However, Sikich has not yet itself publicly announced the new product as it did with the SAP product. Jeff Rudolph, who runs the practice, said simply the addition was made because the firm, "Just wanted to expand our offerings."

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