News and Analysis (15708)
SORTING OUT WORK/LIFE BOUNDARIES
- Friday, 09 July 2010
- News and Analysis
- Written by mark
Having gone into the work-at-home, work-on-vacation, work in Europe life style, the thought has often hit me that there are no work days. There are tasks and it becomes simply a matter of when they need to be done. When they are finished it's back to things other than work. There are adjustments to be made, such as dealing with a French keyboard in which the "q" is placed where "a" is on an English keyboard, numbers that are all available via a shift key and the Web essential colon and backslash on the same key in the lower row.
Read more...FUJITSU HITS ACCOUNTING MARKET
- Friday, 09 July 2010
- News and Analysis
- Written by mark
Fujitsu has entered an alliance with sales-and-use tax vendor SpeedTax to reach accounting firms. And while potential relationships with resellers have yet to be detailed, it seems probable they will be. In the meantime, Kimberly Hogan, who heads the company's initiative, said Fujitsu intends to enter relationships with organizations in areas that include bill management and payment workflow, tax preparation, supply chain management, and stock options management.
SAGE LOSES ACQUISITION BID
- Friday, 09 July 2010
- News and Analysis
- Written by mark
The Sage Group is back in the merger-and-acquisition business, but the efforts of the English parent of Sage North America to take over a Polish company did not succeed. Sage bid 12.75 pounds a share for Teta, an ERP and HR vendor based in Wroclaw, Poland. However, Unit4, whose products include Coda and Agresso and which had previously placed a bid, came back with an offer of 12.80 pounds per share. Sage dropped its effort saying it could not justify a higher price. However, the move demonstrates that Sage, which purchased nothing of significance in 2009, sees the market differently this year.
Read more...SAP EXTENDS SYBASE OFFER
- Friday, 09 July 2010
- News and Analysis
- Written by mark
SAP has extended its cash tender offer for the acquisition of Sybase at $65 per share. The offer was previously scheduled to expire on July 1, but the deadline was extended until 9 pm New York time, July 16. The original offer was conditioned on approval by the European Commission, which has until July 22 to review the deal. That's the expiration date of the 25-working-day review provided under European Union merger regulations.
Read more...SMALL TOWN WIFI; VERY OPEN
- Friday, 09 July 2010
- News and Analysis
- Written by mark
Each time, I visit my hometown, Madison, Ind., I appreciate the openness of WiFi networks. It's the high-tech version of the farm community in which people don't lock their doors. Hopefully, nobody there reads this article. You can get on the public library's network simply by agreeing not to do the usual array of nasty things online. That's funny because the staff vigorously patrols the desktop units to keep nonmembers off those.
Read more...BLYTHECO TOP AVALARA VAR
- Friday, 09 July 2010
- News and Analysis
- Written by mark
Blytheco, Sage's perennial award-winning reseller, has been named as Business Partner of the Year by Avalara. It is the second time Blytheco has won the top honor given by the Bainbridge Island, Wash.-based sales-and-use tax vendor. Avalara cited Blytheco as standing "head and shoulders above a list of superlative, high-performance resellers, ..."
Read more...LAWSON REVS UP; NET DOWN
- Friday, 09 July 2010
- News and Analysis
- Written by mark
Although Lawson Software's results fell for the year ended May 31, the software vendor ended fiscal 2010 with improved results for the fourth quarter. That period saw the company produce revenue of $197 million, up 6 percent from $186.2 million for the same period a year earlier. And organic revenue was up 8 percent for the compared periods. Earnings were cut by a $5.6 million increase in the income tax provision, that stemmed from a variety of reasons.
Read more...ROSEASP TAKES GP TO THE CLOUDS
- Friday, 09 July 2010
- News and Analysis
- Written by mark
ASCENDIX SHIFTS TO DYNAMICS CRM
- Friday, 09 July 2010
- News and Analysis
- Written by mark
OPENAIR GOES EUROPEAN
- Friday, 09 July 2010
- News and Analysis
- Written by mark
NetSuite has launched a new version of OpenAir, its professional services automation package, for the United Kingdom and Europe. The SaaS vendor approached the situation with its usual modest claims. In the words of the press release "NetSuite OpenAir for international companies is a powerful solution that has the potential to do for services business what SAP's R/3 software did for the manufacturing industry in the early 1990s with its pioneering work in establishing best practices for ERP. And what NetSuite press release would be complete without talking about the need for companies that use other products "to replace their current hairball of disparate, costly and often poorly integrated applications ..."
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