Armanino McKenna has acquired AccessTek, a Naperville, Ill.-based reseller. The goal is to expand the Intacct practice of the San Ramon, Calif.-based accounting firm. AccessTek, which took on the Internet-based accounting application in 2010, was Intacct's Partner of the Year last year. It is headed by Lindy Antonelli, who joins Armanino on September 1 as a partner, along with her six employees.

European Dynamics reseller Qurius, fated to go from the Dynamics Inner Circle to liquidation in roughly 90 days, has put down the events that have produced its slated demise. In a pre-mortem - in the words of "Monty Python and the Holy Grail", "I'm not dead yet" - and not a post mortem, the company said that "By the end of May, Qurius was in such a shape that the cash position of the other operating companies was not enough to support Qurius Germany."

Acumatica has added the ability to deploy its applications on Windows Azure Virtual Machines as well as on Amazon Web Services. The company has provided installation wizards for cloud IaaS, Microsoft's Infrastructure as a Service offering, so that customers can follow instructions to deploy Acumatica to their chosen cloud provider Read more...