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EPICOR PUMPS OUT VERSION 9 UPGRADE

Epicor Software, whose Version 9 seems to be one of the hottest products in the financial software market, has come out with what it calls a major new release, 9.05. Since 9's release  late in 2008, the company said it has 140 live customers with 35,000 seats, and as noted in the last newsletter issue, there are reports Epicor is showing up competitively in a way it hasn't in a long time. If you can wade through the press release puffery of analysis from research organizations, the press release actually provides information on the product, although that takes some work. Read more...

EXACT PRODUCT SPREE CONTINUES

Exact has churned out more product announcements in the last two months than in the prior two years.  In the latest rounds, the parent company said that customers can utilize the new Exact E-Risk Management to integrate credit risk information from Dun & Bradstreet into the company's Globe and Synergy products.

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COLUMBUS IT'S AX SALES TANK IN AMERICAS


It wasn't a good year for many companies, but revenue from Dynamics AX slid sharply in the Americas, according to Columbus IT, as it reported results for 2009. While Dynamics NAV sales were unchanged at $5.8 million at the current value of the dollar, the Dynamics AX results were $11.7 million for 2009, down 47 percent from 2008 when measured in Danish kroner. The company discussed the overall drop in American results as related to the sale of subsidiaries last year, but did not touch upon the impact on specific products. Read more...

SAGE HOOKS UP WITH TRUSTWAVE

Sage North America is going to provide security to stores that process or transmit data from consumer credit card via the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard, which will be implemented at small and midsized businesses by TrustWave. Read more...

KLAUS DISCOVERS EPICOR'S VAR PROGRAM

CEO George Klaus has finally owned up to the fact that has company  has a channel program, following Epicor's Five-Star award for Epicor's Partners for Growth Program. Now, this is very strange since Klaus has spent much of his time during Webcasts telling investors and Wall Street that the company is totally direct sales. Now, Klaus said he's proud of the channel program. But it's a strange pride. The company didn't issue a public statement when it named Sam Montana to head its worldwide channel in January nor has it issued a press release to announce the program, that I can find on Epicor's Web site.

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NETSUITE COUGHS UP HAIRBALL AWARDS

With a press release that has one of the longest headlines I've seen in a long time, NetSuite kicked off its inaugural nominee class for the Hairball awards. The awards were implemented by the Web-based software company to honor those it says has untangled what NetSuite calls the "hairball of applications and middleware" in on-premise software. Read more...

SAGE VARS RECORDING X3 SALES

Sage x3 logoSales of Sage's high-end X3 software may never pour in. But after months of signing up resellers, the company is starting to see results. This week, Datel, a reseller in the United Kingdom, said in a somewhat vaguely worded press release that it had made the first X3 sale, and we're all presuming that means in the British Isles. Meanwhile, Jeff Roth, president of SWK Technologies, based in Livingston, N.J., said his organization closed a deal this week as did Canadian CA-Plus.

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IBIS'S VABULAS GET EAGLE AWARD

Microsoft has presented its Eagle award, which is given for an individual's outstanding contributions to the Dynamics Community, to Andy Vabulas. Vabulas is CEO of Ibis, an Atlanta-based reseller, which had 42 percent growth in its Dynamics revenue and 604 percent new ERP license growth for Microsoft's  first half ended December 31. Read more...

SYSPRO SPLITS CHANNEL JOB

Joey BenadrettiIt's a little old as news, but Syspro US has split its channel management position into separate sales and channel relation manager jobs. Joey Benadretti, president of Syspro US says the company hired Stephanie Hargrove "a few months ago" to work with resellers in improving their business operations in areas such as marketing. During the same period, it also introduced a product certification program for VARs, which it plans to gradually extend to end users. Read more...

INTERPRISE PROMOTES UPCOMING SUITE

Interprise Solutions, a SaaS company whose ownership recently changed, is promoting Interprise Suite 5, which it said would be emerging over the next two to four months. The changes included a new Web site, integrating three corporate sites, InterpriseSuite.com, Interprise.tv and ConnnectBusiness.com. Version 5.4 will support Paypal and Google checkout for the shopping cart, more than 200 bug fixes, with V 5.5 offering improved inventory posting. Read more...

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