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INTUIT’S PATZER: MINT UEBER ALLES
- Thursday, 25 February 2010
- News and Analysis
- Written by mark
The head of Intuit’s personal finance division thinks his Mint code base should be the platform for most Intuit products. Aaron Patzer, whose company was acquired by Intuit last year, spelled out his view of a one-code-for-all-Intuit technologies this week at the 2010 Pacific Emerging Technology Summit.
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INTUIT HAPPY WITH RESULTS AS ONLINE BOOMS
- Friday, 19 February 2010
- News and Analysis
- Written by mark
In the quarter in which it has to make money, the period in which it sells a substantial part of its tax software products, Intuit reported a 34.1 percent increase in net income on an 8 percent rise in revenue for the second quarter ended January 31. And CEO Brad Smith pointed to strong growth in TurboTax online, Internet-based payroll and online banking as driving growth and pushing the company to raise its guidance for the year ending June 30.
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- Friday, 19 February 2010
- News and Analysis
- Written by mark
A new research organization, the SMB Group, has formed to provide research, analysis and consulting services for vendors serving the SMB technology market. It was founded by analysts Sanjeev Aggarwal and Laurie McCabe. McCabe has been an attendee at many conferences held by ERP vendors over the years. She spent five years at AMI Partners and is also an affiliate analyst for Hurwitz & Associates.
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INTUIT'S QBES STILL ON A ROLL
- Friday, 19 February 2010
- News and Analysis
- Written by mark
Sales of QuickBooks Enterprise Solutions outpaced much of the market as shown by Intuit's report of its second quarter ended January 31. The company said it had 41,000 active users (users on maintenance) at the end of the period. That was up by 17 percent from the 35,000 users a year earlier.
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ACUMATICA BUILDS CHANNEL IN INDONESIA
- Friday, 19 February 2010
- News and Analysis
- Written by mark
Probably no one expects to be affected by the growth of Bethesda, Md.-based Acumatica, which markets SaaS-based financial software through its Indonesian arm. But I think that if I were a reseller, I would want any vendor that I might partner with to be viable in more than just the United States.
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VAR REALIGNMENT BUILDING
- Friday, 19 February 2010
- News and Analysis
- Written by mark
It isn't hard to see more evidence of the realignment of resellers who have been selling midmarket financial packages. Last week's newsletter talked about the realignment in the Microsoft channel, which included five major resellers putting together a distribution group. This week's edition has information about the decision of CBIZ to get out of the market and, the split of the former Faye Pollack & Associates into two organizations, one selling infrastructure and networking products, the other pursuing the accounting software dream.
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FPA GETS LEVEL PLATFORM AWARD
- Thursday, 18 February 2010
- News and Analysis
- Written by mark
FPA Technology Services (formerly known as Faye Pollack & Associates) has been named Partner Innovator of the Year by Level Platforms. The company said the award recognizes Craig Pollack of FPA Technology Services for advancing the innovative use of Level Platforms Managed Workplace. The Rookie of the Year award was given to Aaron Donaldson of RSM McGladrey.
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ACCOUNTEDGE FOR WINDOWS DEBUTS
- Thursday, 18 February 2010
- News and Analysis
- Written by mark
Acclivity, which took over the operations of MYOB in North America, has introduced AccountEdge for Windows 2010. This is one of the last steps away from the use of the product and company names of MYOB, which started years ago in Rockaway, N.J., but whose focus is now in countries like Australia.
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CONVERGENCE ATTENDANCE PUSH ON
- Thursday, 18 February 2010
- News and Analysis
- Written by mark
The push to get attendees to Microsoft Convergence at the end of April is on. Perhaps I haven't paid attention to this in past years, but it does seem like there's more effort going into putting notices on resellers' home pages and into the Dynamics community of Microsoft's Web site than in prior years. Is that because the economy has the host making an extra effort or Microsoft is also worried that not everybody is eager to rush to Atlanta?
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CBIZ LEAVING TECHNOLOGY BUSINESS
- Thursday, 18 February 2010
- News and Analysis
- Written by mark
CBIZ, the Cleveland, Ohio-based professional services firm, has decided to get out of the technology business, including the sale of midmarket accounting products. The what I like to call a sort of accounting firm classified its three technology units as discontinued operations effective with the end of its year on December 31 and is winding down the operations as current installations are completed.
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