The only thing standing between Intuit and growth in net income for the third quarter ended April 30 was taxes. The company had operating income of $1.4 billion, a rise of 12.4 percent in the third quarter of fiscal 2016. After taxes, that dropped to earnings of $964 million, down 6 percent from slightly more than $1 billion in last year's corresponding period.

I am wary of the move towards consumerization since so much I have seen makes instruction very cartoony. I just saw this at a medical center: "You've just lost a leg. Before the doctor tries to sew it back on, here is some helpful information you ought to know.

Sage unleashed a number of new products at Summit earlier this month. But consistent with the approach of recent months, it has adopted a puzzling approach of lumping announcements together, an easy way to have products become lost. Included in the new list was Sage X3 VII with a variety of features including end-to-end supply chain management, flexible product and faster global financial management.