Exact this week previewed Macola 10.4 at its Evolve customer conference in Atlanta, Ga. The software company, which expects to introduce the product in June, said 10.4 includes Workspace 2.0, a new generation of personalized workspaces for day-to-day business tasks. It will utilize an alliance with Qlik Technology to provide a business intelligence tool, Exact Insights Powered by Qlik, and also will support its Latin American expansion by offering IFRS reporting.

Epicor Software intends to become a more channel friendly company and to produce a definitive plan in October. "We are migrating toward a partner-led model, we are not there yet," Bob Aronson, the company's SVP of sales, said at this week's Insights conference. The company is close to a 100-percent channel approach in Canada and Latin America. While it will not move that direction in the United States, Epicor plans to make the channel a much more significant part of revenue here. Aronson said the company is simplifying a program that included a 67-page document for managing partners.

NetSuite has opened a headquarters in Amsterdam, the Netherlands, to run its operations in Benelux companies—the Netherlands, Belgium and Luxembourg. The cloud-based software company announced several steps that accompany that move, including an alliance with Deloitte in Belgium and the introduction of NetSuite OneWorld for Benelux-headquartered companies.