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INTACCT TARGETS DELTEK SPACE

Dan Druker, IntacctIntacct's discussion of its new product launch indicates the company is looking at both Deltek and Dynamics SL VARs. But outside of the need for a shorter headline than one that mentions both competitors, many of the moves look a bit more aimed at the Deltek market. The cloud vendor's fall release features Intacct Services Resource Planning, ERP for project and services-related businesses. The company also announced an alliance with Clarizen via which Intacct and its channel will resell Clarizen's product which features elements such as work management and resource management.

With integration among Clarizen, Intacct and Salesforce.com, users will have "One-stop insight into everything financial about the project," said product manager Dan Miller. The features introduced also suggest Intacct wants to scale upward a bit. It has Enhance Revenue Management for companies with complex needs in that area. The product has a better ability to handle heterogeneous charts of accounts and Intacct has also expanded the number of companies that its platform supports. It is not a matter of trying to move upstream, but is a matter of being able to handle the needs of companies who use Intacct and grow. "We expect to grow with those companies until they need to go to an Oracle," said Dan Druker, the company's marketing VP.  Not just the project-based elements, point to a direct competition with Deltek. The competition will also occur on the resource management front. When Deltek purchased Maconomy, it also got People Planner, an application in that category and Deltek is moving both Maconomy and People Planner into its channel. Druker said the latest Intacct products and enhancements would appeal to Deltek and Solomon VARs looking for a native cloud application. Of course, in some ways, Deltek has been moving into what Intacct thinks is its space. Before the Maconomy deal, Deltek was not able to get into the accounting firm market. It says Maconomy has changed that. Intacct has an alliance with CPA2Biz, the for-profit arm of the AICPA, so the Maconomy and Intacct moves make this look like a natural battlefield. Services Resource Planning starts at $1,500 per month.

 

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