News and Analysis (15677)
ROSE SEEKS DYNAMICS 365 INFO
- Thursday, 18 August 2016
- News and Analysis
- Written by mark
RoseASP is seeking opinions from the Microsoft channel about Dynamics 365, essentially Dynamics NAV online. CEO Linda Rose says the effort, via an online survey, is designed to provide "the questions no one else is asking but yet everyone is thinking about." Previewed during July and expected to be available in the fall, Dynamics 365 is Microsoft's most ambitious effort in the cloud yet.
VARS: SUMMIT TRAFFIC GOOD
- Wednesday, 17 August 2016
- News and Analysis
- Written by
The most widely expressed reseller opinion solicited about the floor traffic at Sage Summit has been it was the best attended conference held by the software vendor. There were, however, some qualms about the quality of attendance in this very quick email survey. Nevertheless, some reseller exhibitors and VARs without booths were enthusiastic about the event.
XERO RETOOLS CERTIFICATION
- Tuesday, 16 August 2016
- News and Analysis
- Written by mark
Xero has revamped its certification program for accountants and bookkeepers. The new effort, which will be released at the end of next month, departs from the usual approach in that there is no final test. "We have revamped all of our education to be story-based," says Amy Vetter, Xero's global VP of education and head of accounting.
MAJOR JOINS CLEARPOINT AS CFO
- Tuesday, 16 August 2016
- News and Analysis
- Written by mark
Tom Major has joined Clearpointe, a Little Rock, Ark.-based managed service provider as CFO. Major moved this month from reseller Interdyn BMI where he was an SVP and worked from July 2012 through July. Before joining BMI, he was CEO and owner of Reach Solutions a Dynamics partner in Arkansas from December 1995 through June 2012. ClearPointe is headed by CEO and co-founder Jeff Johnson, whose managed services offering is described as designed for small and mid-size companies.
SAGE PACKED SUMMIT ATTENDANCE?
- Tuesday, 16 August 2016
- News and Analysis
- Written by PMG Admin
Sage acknowledges it had 15,000 attendees at last month's Summit conference, short of the 20,000 it promised. But the real question is how relevant all those bodies were. We know that the software company was advertising a $99 entry fee up through the start of the Chicago-based event. But there are complaints that Sage was handing out passes like candy and the attendance including people basically off the street.
RANDOM THOUGHTS: MICHAEL PHELPS
- Friday, 12 August 2016
- News and Analysis
- Written by mark
A 91-year old woman at the swimming pool is a frequent opponent of mine in the game, Rummikub. For some reason, last week, she looked at me and spouted, "You're just a baby. I'm twice your age." I replied, "Oh, so you're 133?" ... A man in Rogue River, Ore., recently found pot in a portable toilet.
THINKING ABOUT NETSUITE AND ORACLE
- Friday, 12 August 2016
- News and Analysis
- Written by mark
Questions about Oracle's pending purchase of NetSuite have the industry pondering the impact. And one of those has to been what Oracle will do with the NetSuite channel. Oracle has said it will continue to develop the NetSuite product line, along with its own applications. But that cannot be too comforting to the NetSuite channel and there is evidence NetSuite VARs are nervous enough to approach other vendors.
ACCELLOS LINKS TO X3
- Friday, 12 August 2016
- News and Analysis
- Written by mark
HighJump has developed an integration for its AccellosOne Warehouse Management System and Sage X3 ERP. HighJump said more than 100 Sage users have purchased the company's product for inventory control and order fulfillment. Sage has also selected AccellosOne WMS as an endorsed product.
EXACT U.S. DOMAINS CHANGED
- Friday, 12 August 2016
- News and Analysis
- Written by mark
Exact has changed the domain names for the websites of its three North American manufacturing software websites. Surprisingly, the change has been to remove the word "Exact" from the domains. The domains are now Macola.com, JobBoss.com and MAX4ERP.com. I have an inquiry to public relations of the Netherlands-based company but have not had a response yet.
INTACCT CHOOSES PRESIDENT'S CLUB
- Thursday, 11 August 2016
- News and Analysis
- Written by mark
Cloud software vendor Intacct has named 11 firms as members of its Presidents' Club. The group includes both resellers of Intacct's products and accounting firms that utilize Intacct's applications to provide outsourced accounting services. The pure resellers in the group are AcctTwo Shared Services and Leap the Pond.
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