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INTACCT GOES AFTER ASSOCATIONS

Friday, 27 August 2010
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Intacct is working with Avectra to provide association management and financial management applications by integrating Avectra’s NetForum Pro system with Intacct’s online financial applications. They will jointly market and sell the software. Is it just me, or do others find it overly obvious when these releases about integration of systems talk of "eliminating the need for manual re-keying of data between systems"? Read more...

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SAGE ADDS FOUR MIP VARS

Friday, 27 August 2010
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Sage had said it would enlarge its reseller base for MIP Fund Accounting and this week's announcement of four additional VARs is the first sign of progress on that front. Those firms include ADSS Global of Exton, Penn., a Sage stalwart with Accpac and MAS 90/200 on its product line, and Kerr Consulting & Support of Houston, Texas, which handles Accpac, Sage Pro and Cyma. Fund accounting has always had a good representation from CPA firms and two joined the MIP effort in this round, Joseph Eve, a regional firm based in Great Falls, Mont., and Kernutt Stokes Brandt & Co. LLP of Eugene, Ore.

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AVALARA LINKS WITH SAP B1

Friday, 27 August 2010
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Avalara has introduced AvaTax for SAP Business One through a partnership with Argentis Consulting. The integration of AvaTax and Business One provides access to sales and use tax services delivered by the Avalara product. Argentis also implements business applications such as SAP R3 and integrates e-commerce products as well as providing development and consulting services.

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IBM CHANNEL BAFFLED BY SOCIAL MEDIA

Friday, 27 August 2010
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In case you thought you were the only one who can't figure out how to use social media for business effectively, IBM this week released a survey that shows you are not. A survey of 1,000 partners worldwide found 45 percent are experimenting with social media business strategy to generate new revenue streams. But three quarters of those are uncertain how to use it as an effective sales tool. Read more...

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NO ISSUE SEPTEMBER 3

Friday, 27 August 2010
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I’m assuming you don't want to read this stuff on a getaway weekend any more than I do. And since we publish 48 issues a year, next Friday is a good day to head out to whatever your favorite summer's end weekend spot is. We resume on Friday, September 10 with business as normal. Or perhaps, abnormal. You decide.

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DYNAMICS SL DEALERS SCRAMBLING?

Friday, 20 August 2010
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Noting the number of Dynamics SL dealers moving onto the Acumatica platform made me realize that the Solomon crowd faces a problem when Microsoft starts taking orders for last cigarettes and blindfolds for many of its smaller VARs this fall. My impression has always been that Solomon had more lifestyle VARs than Great Plains did, although I have nothing to back that up. Read more...
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FINDING INTUIT ISPS VERY HARD

Thursday, 19 August 2010
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It has always been tough remembering where Intuit puts the link for its Intuit Solution Provider program on the company's Web site. In fact, one reseller said the lack of visibility has been a sore point with the ISP Advisory Council. And now, that link has disappeared. My memory is that the link was just below "Buy Online". Under that now is simply one for "ProAdvisor. Log in to Receive Discounts." Read more...
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VAR TO SAAS MOVE SPEEDING UP?

Friday, 20 August 2010
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David DierkeThe signings are starting to trickle in. Last week’s article noted Arxis Technology signing to carry SAP’s Business By Design. During the last week it was Shafer Solutions, another Sage VAR that has agreed to carry Intacct’s online product. With former Sager Taylor Macdonald doing the Intacct recruiting, I’m sure we’ll see more Sage recruits just as another article in this edition notes, Acumatica, which has some former Dynamics people aboard, is doing a good job of enlisting from that VAR gene pool. Read more...
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CEO: INTUIT OUTAGES DUE TO “POOR EXECUTION”

Friday, 20 August 2010
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Brad SmithIntuit CEO Brad Smith has put the blame for Intuit's lengthy system outages in June and July where many of us thought it probably should be placed. "It's was pure execution. It's something we need to fix," he said during yesterday's fourth-quarter earnings financial conference call. Read more...
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SAGE CUTS CRM VAR

Friday, 20 August 2010
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Sage North America has terminated the reselling contract of a SalesLogix VAR for pitching the reseller's customer base to switch to Salesforce.com, a competing customer relationship management program Sage terminated the reseller and said it would reassign its customers to other VARs, according to a letter from Jeffrey Gregorec, VP of sales and strategic alliances for Sage CRM Solutions. Read more...
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