The Corporate Renaissance Group has released Project Accounting Cubes for Dynamics GP Project Accounting. The company said the cubes enable users to complete detailed reporting and analytics within Project Accounting in a drag-and-drop environment. The cubes work with Excel and other analytical packages. CRG also introduced a Universal Data Connector to enable users to import data from any external source into Cost Allocator. Read more...

There’s a profound sense of disappointment that after a promising press release issued on March 25, NetSuite has yet to publish the names of the winners of its first-annual Hairball Awards. Thirty companies were nominated for the honor, named for their ability to untangle the hairball of code in corporations, and the winners were to be announced at last week’s SuiteCloud conference in California. Read more...

There shouldn’t be too many people in the Sage world who don’t know that Sage Group announced earlier this week that Paul Walker will be leaving after 26 years with the company and 16 years as chief executive. That would seem to signal a change in direction. What change? I don’t think any of us know the secrets of Newcastle-Upon-Tyne, home of the mother ship for Sage North America. His departure, which seems contingent on finding a replacement, came after last week’s speculation by CitiGroup analysts that the healthcare group is ripe for being sold off. I continue to read their remarks as applying to healthcare, not the whole company. Read more...

My HP 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 mother board problem and the warranty and/or support contract expired six days ago. “But we didn’t get the computer until June. How could it have expired?” Read more...