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EXACT LINKS WITH AVALARA
- Friday, 24 September 2010
- News and Analysis
- Written by mark
Exact has developed AvaTax for Exact, a version of Avalara's sales-and-use-tax application, that integrates with three Exact software products: Macola ES, Macola Progression and Globe. The integration provides the usual set of capabilities that the web-based Avalara product has brought to other mid-market packages including address validation, jurisdiction, rate, boundary, and rule research, automated rate calculation, returns preparation and remittance.Read more...
SAGE PICKS UP NAVISION VET BURTT
- Friday, 24 September 2010
- News and Analysis
- Written by mark
Sage has hired Rick Burtt, a long-time Microsoft Dynamics NAV employee, as channel development and strategy manager. Burtt has been at Sage North America for a month. Before that, he spent eight years with Navision in the U.S., and then the next eight years with Microsoft which purchased Navision in 2002. At Microsoft, he was global alliance business development manager until July. Early in his career, he was with Peachtree for two years and started with Navision in 1994. At that Atlanta-area based organization, he spent four years as VP of finance and operations and was director of business development when Navision was acquired.
Read more...BLACKBAUD CREATES INTERNATIONAL UNIT
- Friday, 24 September 2010
- News and Analysis
- Written by mark
Blackbaud has named Brad Holman as the president of its new International Business Unit, which brings together the nonprofit software vendor's international operations in one organization. Based in Sydney, Australia, Holman will be responsible for operations in England, Hong Kong, Australia and the Netherlands, along with international business development activities.
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ROSETTA STONE'S LANGUAGE PROBLEM
- Friday, 24 September 2010
- News and Analysis
- Written by mark
SMITH: INTUIT OUTAGES "A COMEDY OF ERRORS"
- Friday, 24 September 2010
- News and Analysis
- Written by mark
The computer system outages that hit Intuit during the summer stemmed for a series of human errors, CEO Brad Smith told attendees this week at the annual Intuit Investors Day. "If I walked you through all the things that happened, it would be a very disappointing comedy of errors." The most serious outage started on June 15, lasted more than 24 hours and knocked out most Intuit online applications including credit card and payroll processing and the ability to make tax deposits. It put many small businesses out of operation for the interim. On July 20 and most of July 21, a commercial power outage knocked out QuickBase, Intuit's online development platform, and the Accountant's Copy File Transfer System.
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BLYTHECO BUYS SFA TECHNOLOGY
- Friday, 24 September 2010
- News and Analysis
- Written by mark
Sage reseller Blytheco has acquired SFA Technology, a Denver-based CRM reseller which markets Sage SalesLogic. The company will relocate to Blytheco’s Denver office with SFA principal Patrick Cherry joining the Blytheco staff.
Read more...DELTEK NAMES MARKETING OFFICER
- Friday, 24 September 2010
- News and Analysis
- Written by mark
Deltek has named Kevin Iaquinto as chief marketing officer, reporting directly to Kevin Parker, CEO of the Herndon, Va.-based software company. He most recently served as SVP of global marketing for Software AG for three years, where he managed efforts in more than 70 countries. Before the Software AG gig, he was VP of corporate marketing for webMethods for two years. Iaquinto replaced William Clark, who was EVP and chief marketing officer with Deltek for almost five years. He left in August and is now SVP and chief marketing officer, a newly created position, at Savi Technology, a Lockheed Martin company.
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CYMA REFOCUSING ON HR/PAYROLL
- Friday, 24 September 2010
- News and Analysis
- Written by mark
Cyma Systems, which has been in the accounting software business for more than 30 years, has reached an agreement under which Cyma is reselling the BizNet Excel Business Information Suite. The press release announcing the deal noted that it was "is a significant step in CYMA's drive to change its corporate focus and redefine the company's brand."
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SAAS TAKING OFF BUT….
- Friday, 17 September 2010
- News and Analysis
- Written by mark
For all the talk of Internet-based financials starting to catch on, there's evidence that the category is still new for many. Members of the Information Technology Alliance who were hoping for a presentation on VAR experiences with SaaS products couldn’t find any traditional VARs among the membership who had experience selling the cloud. This week, NetSuite CFO Ron Gill told an audience at the Deutsche Bank Technology Conference that "We do still spend a portion of the sales cycle talking about SaaS" and he quickly noted that "Nobody makes an RFP for CRM without mentioning SAS, that’s not true for ERP." Read more...
NETSUITE SIGNS VARS
- Friday, 17 September 2010
- News and Analysis
- Written by mark
There’s a contest going on to announce VAR signings and VAR and customer defections. This time NetSuite put out its PR about enlistments. Among the first two mentioned, one is very important and the other is an organization that was more visible a few years ago. In the very important range is Fargo, N.D.-based Eide Bailly, which seems a counter to Intacct’s signing LarsonAllen last year. NetSuite said the firm is a long-time Sage reseller, but there's no evidence of that on its Web site. Read more...
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