Sage Exchange, a platform for its payment services division, was part of the flurry of Sage news that has come out in the past month. And it’s part of the Sage effort to make payment processing a service that works across most product lines as  was the vision when the company purchased Verus for several times revenue in 2006. The theory was sound. But it didn’t get put into practice. That has been changing over the last year under Greg Hammermeister, president of the Payments Solutions Division. Read more...

Microsoft has put FRx out to pasture and just introduced its replacement, Management Reporter 2.0, which is apparently going to tag along with all four Dynamics financial applications at no cost. However, it is only available initially with Dynamics GP 2010. I’m assuming this is designed to deter those who might seek to purchase an FRx alternative. Management Reporter does many of the same things as FRx so let’s look at the things Microsoft says are different. Read more...

SAP is interesting company to watch right now, not for its product efforts, but for the impact of its new CO-CEOs, Bill McDermott and Jim Hagemann Snabe on the company’s personality. Does this means SAP will have better software? Does it mean BusinessByDesign will be a big hit? I have no clue. But the fact that SAP junked a single CEO system to go back to the company’s historical Co-CEO system is worth watching. Unfortunately, I didn’t pay enough attention to say how the Web site differs from before the two took over. But some things stand out. Read more...

Fine Solutions, a Dynamics reseller based in Seattle, Wash., has acquired the Dynamics clients if Portland-based ISM, a city in which Fine had opened an office in 2009 to handle important clients. Fine is expanding its professional services and aerospace practices into Washington. Fine sells Dynamics AX and GP, along with technology based on Office SharePoint Server. Read more...