FinancialForce.com has launched FinancialForce SRP, a Services Resource Planning product. It combines Salesforce CRM, with professional services automation and accounting. The 526-word press release may set a record for buzzwords and puffery and other than being built on the Force.com platform, it seems to do a lot of the things you’d expect from the applications. Read more...

Deltek has trotted out Deltek Connect for Microsoft Outlook which is now compatible with Outlook 2010. Connect integrates the Microsoft application with Deltek’s Vision, Costpoint and GovWin CRM. Connect was developed in partnership with InvisibleCRM, which writes a variety of integration tools for Outlook and Windows.

Everest Software, which has made various runs at the mid-market with its ERP line, hasn’t said much since it was acquired by Versata in August 2010. Versata has acquired a stream of technology companies, most not in the financial software arena, and let them continue under their own names. Now Everest has a redesigned site which calls the operation “A Cloud 9 company.” The new website (new since I visited it about two weeks ago) is lacking in contact information. There’s no telephone number or office location and the section labeled “Store” isn’t a webstore in the sense that anything is being sold. Read more...

Infor is doing more than just buying companies. This week it announced it plans to hire about 400 software developers to expand its engineering organization. The privately held company attributed the investment to great third quarter results, which it said included 17-percent license growth and cash operating margins of 24 percent. It also added 400 net new customers during the quarter. Recruitment was to begin immediately with the expansion expected to be completed by year’s end. Additional development efforts are being made in all product areas.