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EXACT NEW HQ A SIGN OF OPTIMISM?

Exact logoMaybe I’m reading too much into this. But I’d like to think when a company moves into a new headquarters facility that it is expressing confidence in its future. Anyway, Exact has moved into a new HQ building after 25 years in the same spot in Delft, the Netherlands, into the Technopolis Innovation Park in the same city. The press release didn’t describe the size of the building, but said that for the 500 employees in Delft the new facility offers “a flexible, open work environment, in terms of both time and space.” Read more...

MICROSOFT ROLLS OUT GP 2010, SURPRISE

It would have been hard not to miss the build up and there was only a bit of letdown when the press release issued under NDA before it was made public turned out to be for Dynamics GP 2010. Considering the number of launch events resellers have scheduled for the new version, there weren’t too many people that didn’t know this product was hitting the market soon—general release is May 1. Errol Schoenfish, director of product management, said there are three themes with GP 2010. Read more...

COLUMBUS IT GETS CFO; NEEDS TRANSLATOR

Columbus IT, the international Dynamics VAR based in Denmark, has announced that  Hans Henrik Thrane starts as CFO on July 1. The translator is my idea. The press release announcing his appointment got me thinking that some of the Web site is not done by a Native English speaker when it stated that Thrane started “as at 1st July 2010.”  The management bios are where work is needed. One executive “holds a master in Accounting and Finance”, another  "has the business degree in informatics” …  and a third is “currently pursuing MBA from Indian School of Business Management.” Read more...

ADVENTURES IN PC-LAND

My display on my Hewlett-Packard notebook developed a serious flicker and some nice color bars, along with a spreading discoloration. It looks like it got hit, except that all I remember doing is turning it slightly on the Amtrak train seat tray to use it. After digging out the support telephone number for HP support, I recited the product serial number, my home address, family history and elementary school grade average to verify my identify to be told it was a motherboard problem and the warranty expired six days ago. Read more...

SPEEDTAX AND BAASS HARMONIZE

Speedtax logoSpeedTax, which makes online sales-and-use tax applications, is working with Canadian Accpac reseller BAASS Business Solutions to deliver an application that will meet the needs of companies affected by Canada’s Harmonized Sales Tax legislation. HST replaces a structure of a federal goods and services tax and provincial sales taxes with one sales tax. While it was already in effect in four provinces, HST takes effect on July 1 in Ontario and British Columbia.  Read more...

N-ABLE STARTS HOW-TO TRAINING PROGRAM

n-able logoN-Able Technologies, which makes remote monitoring and management software for managed service providers, has introduced a training program for its N-central 7.0 software. The Ottawa-based company called it a field and Web-based training program designed to help with new customer acquisitions and placing all existing small and midsize business customers' networked devices under management. Read more...

NET@WORK GETS FITZGERALD GROUP

Net@Work made its last acquisition in 2009 when it picked up the Sage business from Solutions Strategists. Net@Work has acquired Sharon, Mass.-based Fitzgerald Group and will be maintaining that office and keeping owner Mike Fitzgerald. Fitzgerald's MAS 90/200 and 500 business will become part of Net@Work.  However, the Deltek software reselling business will not, according to Net@Work co-founder Alex Solomon. "We are not picking up Deltek. It didn’t make sense," says Solomon. Net@Work said that would add to its more than 130 consultants and support personnel. Fitzgerald, which employed about 12 people, was named to the Sage's President Circle for 2009, its third straight year and the fifth time in seven years. Meanwhile, Solomon noted that hascompany has begun selling Sage's high-end X3 manufacturing package. It hired Marco Garneri, who had been employed by an Italian reseller, and had him move to New York to provide technological knowledge and consulting for the X3 business.

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BIZ ADVICE ON TAP AT INSIGHTS

Sage has a banker coming to its Insights conference next month and that's one of the best ideas I've heard about the annual reseller confab. The session was detailed by Rob Johnson, senior director of partner programs at Sage North America, at an event held recently in New York City. He said that resellers need business advice on how to obtain capital and a lot of other issues surrounding the use of money and financing. Read more...

SWK REPORTS BIG DEAL

SWK Technologies has reported a major sale, the kind of announcement that hasn't happened formally in a while so its economy must be improving. The Livingston, N.J.-based Sage reseller said the deal was to a major financial services company in New York with the MAS 500 software and services adding up to more than $100,000. Read more...

ZENITH INFOTECH OPENS ZENITH UNIVERSITY

Zenith logoZenith Infotech has opened Zenith University, a Web-based, interactive learning management system, for its managed service channel members. ZU will give the access to training on the complete line of Zenith’s backup and disaster recovery and remote monitoring and management systems. There are more than 40 courses online with plans to add more regularly. Subjects include the virtualization of failed servers, mastering Zenith’s managed services infrastructure, configuring portals and general troubleshooting. Read more...

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