Plex Systems has released the Plex Market Forecast Manager, as  part of the Plex Supply Chain Planning Suite. Forecast Manager enables manufacturer to integrate internal and external data with demand plans.

A survey of IT professionals showed 75 percent believe the cloud provides more security than do their own data centers. And internally businesses are using scores of products to provide security, according to the recently released Oracle and KPMG Cloud Theft report.

Intuit has increased the number of custom fields in QuickBooks Online Advanced. The company said this month’s new features includie 12 fields, raising the total to 36.