While one of Intuit's claims to fame is its accounting product, QuickBooks, the company is enunciating a new way to get more customers into the back office. And that's by the front office. The company sold more units of QB for the year ended July 31, but that came through heavy discounting.

A blog entry this week on the Dynamics community site, by Dynamics leader Kirill Tatarinov, remarking about his seven-year career at Microsoft, shows how hard it is to keep Web sites fresh. There have been only five "Executive Insight" articles posted this year. It's hard for top people to keep these filled because of demands of their time.

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