If Trey Resources, parent to Sage reseller SWK Technologies, was betting its future on Sage’s X-3 software, it looks like bet is starting to pay off with two sales during the quarter. And the company, which has changed its name to SilverSun Technologies, continues to untangle its spaghetti capital structure. Revenue jumped to $2.8 million for the first quarter ended March 31, up 51 percent from $1.8 million in last year’s corresponding period. The company reported net income of $465,653 in the most recently ended period, up from $401,990 a year earlier. Read more...

Syspro, the manufacturing software specialist, has entered the Internet application world with Syspro BusinessLive, its SaaS offering. The product is available for a monthly subscription price. I’d offer more details, but most of the announcement touts the standard benefits of cloud products – the low monthly cost, ability to have updates, no need for large up-front IT or capital costs and yadda, yadda, yadda.

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After attending a February SAP channel conference, I thought we’d start hearing the names of more resellers signing on for Business ByDesign, the SAP cloud product. There was a list of new VARs shown in one conference session and SAP very nicely shared the list with me since I couldn’t copy all the names during the brief time the slide was displayed. But we haven’t really had announcement. One company shown on the list, vehemently denied having signed for ByD. We also haven’t seen signings of heavyweight resellers. Read more...

BJ Schaknowski, who has headed Intuit's channel program, is leaving the company to assume a similar role with CA Technologies, the company once known as Computer Associates. In the last two weeks, I had an exchange about the difficulty in finding the Intuit Solution Provider program on the company's website, but was assured that the company is committed to the channel. But having trouble finding a program on a website is not a terribly strong signal of commitment, in my opinion. Read more...