Infinity Info Systems, a New York City CRM reseller, has a history of winning awards, both vendor and other honors. This month, it was selected for the third consecutive year for the U.S. Chamber of Commerce Blue Ribbon Small Business Award. Seventy-five winners were selected nationwide and will be honored America’s Small Business Summit 2011, May 23 to 25, in Washington, D.C. The award honors businesses that demonstrate excellent business practices in several areas, including strategy, employee development, community involvement, and customer service.

It was just a post by one person on the Microsoft Dynamics Community site, a statement that GP isn’t dead and there’s a lot coming in the next release. The idea that Microsoft has oiled a creaky product came in a reseller conversation that indicated there are a lot of welcome changes. But a succession of information on that website looks like someone is drumming up cheerleaders for products other than Dynamics AX.

Martijn Janmaat, CEO of Exact, the parent of the Macola line, has said he would not seek to extend his stay in the position past the one year that he said he would serve.  Janmaat, who was on the software vendor’s supervisory board, found himself thrust into the position in August 2010 after the job’s prior occupant, Raj Patel, left after five years. The best way to phrase it is that Janmaat set about cleaning up the mess that was left behind, which included an aging product line with no plans for moving some key applications forward and a company that was spread too thinly across the world.

Deltek has released a new version of Maconomy Analytix, a business intelligence application for professional services firms. The product utilizes technology from Business Objects, the SAP BI product. It has live business reporting and an intuitive ad hoc query tool and when I read the press release and visited the website, I ended with no clear idea of what is new in this version. When Deltek purchased Maconomy last year, it cited the latter’s strength in reaching certain markets that Deltek had been unable to crack and that included sales to accounting firms.