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INTUIT NAMES FIRM OF FUTURE

Juliet Aurora, AIS SolutionsIntuit has named Burlington, Ont.-based AIS Solutions as the 2017 Global Firm of the Future. The selection was announced at the vendor's QuickBooks Connect conference underway this week.

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DEALING WITH DYNAMICS CONFUSION

Steve Ems, RSMAsked if the Dynamics market is confused, RSM's Steve Ems gave a surprisingly frank answer. "I think it is a problem." For me, to have Ems, Principal and National Business Applications Leader, for RSM, a large reseller, willing to say this publicly underlines just how much confusion there is.

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SHOULD (WILL) SAGE RENAME LINE?

sageThe headline probably seems like a dumb question, given all the rebranding Sage has done. However, it only refers to the company's strategic products, Live, Intacct and X-3.

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QBOOKS ISV $15M FUND SET

Lighter CapitalLighter Capital, which provides funding to startup tech companies, has created the Lighter Capital Intuit Developer Fund. The announcement at QuickBooks Connect this week says the fund allocates $15 million of Lighter's credit facility to those develop applications for QuickBooks.

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MYOB BUYS RECKON UNIT

 Clive Rabie, Reckon MYOB has purchased Reckon's Accountant Group—both companies are based in Australia. The roughly $136 million deal brings three businesses to MYOB, Reckon APS, Reckon Elite and Reckon Docs, which are sold to accounting firms in Australia. However, the deal is interesting more because of its impact elsewhere.

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ONE IN FIVE HATE WORK TECH

Scott Kamieneski, Unit4One in five workers hate their workplace technology and a third of professionals dislike their business software applications. That is the finding of a survey by Netherlands-based Unit4, which received responses from 1,057 full-time U.S.-based professionals.

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SAGE LOOKS TO ENTERPRISE PARTNERS

Scott Ehman, SageSage X-3 is increasingly running into the Tier One products. And the software company is looking at larger firms for the product's channel. "We are increasingly seeing Sage X-3 go up against Oracle and SAP," Scott Ehman, Sage's VP of North America partner strategy and sales, said during a recent interview.

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SWK SALES REMAIN SLUGGISH

SWKRevenue growth for SilverSun Technologies remained sluggish for the third quarter ended September 30. Reseller SWK Technologies comprises all of the parent's operations.

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RANDOM THOUGHTS: BRAZILE

Donna Brazile, photo by Ron AiraAt a conference this week, I heard it stated that in the mobile, social media area, the attention span of Americans has dropped 30 percent and that means. What did you think fo the game last night? I think I'll have ice cream.

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EDGEWATER REALIGNS UNITS

Jeffrey Ruthrford, Edgewater Technology Edgewater Technology reported a down third quarter for the period ended September 30. However, interim CEO Jeremy Rutherford indicated this week business unit realignment will help it resume growth. The company reported a third-quarter loss of $149,000, compared to net income of $15,000 a year earlier.

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