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MICROSOFT SEEKING MASTER VARS
- Friday, 12 August 2011
- News and Analysis
- Written by mark
Microsoft is continuing to look for a way to keep smaller resellers involved in selling Dynamics while at the same time talking about how it will cut non-producers and is introducing, or at least testing, a Master VAR plan. "September 1 marks the date when Microsoft plans to launch a pilot of a "Master VAR" program for Dynamics partners," says an email from Craig Maurer, president of S2 Technologies, which is soliciting other dealers in partnership with the Katalys Group.
AX NOW MATCHES GP?
- Friday, 12 August 2011
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INTUIT DROPS PROLINE BRAND
- Friday, 12 August 2011
- News and Analysis
- Written by mark
Intuit is dropping the ProLine brand that it had launched as method of tying together its product lines. While that doesn't directly affect many readers of this newsletter, it shows how tough rebranding can be. The issue is that everyone knows TurboTax and QuickBooks, but almost no one knows the Intuit name. Sound familiar? Read more...
SAP DEBUTS NEW BIZ OBJECTS
- Friday, 12 August 2011
- News and Analysis
- Written by mark
BLYTHE: SAGE REBRANDING A BAD IDEA
- Tuesday, 09 August 2011
- News and Analysis
- Written by mark
Steve Blythe, CEO of Blytheco, Sage's largest VAR and its perennial top award winner, thinks that the plan to rebrand Sage's product line with the same number system the vendor uses is a bad idea. I won't get into the appearance on August 5 and the disappearance the same day of a blog post called "Why the Sage Rebranding Idea is Just Plain Stupid."
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NETSUITE STOPS NEW SALES TO SMALLER BIZ
- Monday, 08 August 2011
- News and Analysis
- Written by mark
NetSuite is ignoring the girl that brought it to the online technology dance, the sub-$10,000-a-year customer. That was the message delivered today by Ron Gill, the CFO, in remarks at the Pacific Crest Technology Leadership Conference. "We simply stopped signing new business in that business. The small customers represent about 6 percent of revenue and 40 percent of customers.
AICPA'S CITP GETTING REAL
- Friday, 05 August 2011
- News and Analysis
- Written by mark
After many years in which members got their tech union card without the need for a test, the American Institute of CPAs is rolling out its exam for the Certified Information Technology Professional credential. Right now, there are 1,800 CITPs and other than their technology experience they have one thing in common – they didn't have to take a test to add the credential to their name and they never will since they are forever grandfathered.
Read more...BIG INTUIT INVESTOR SELLS
- Friday, 05 August 2011
- News and Analysis
- Written by mark
Having covered the way Relational Investors forced its way onto the Intuit board a couple of years ago, I lost track of the firm's holdings. Relational has been known as an expert in corporate governance. In the case of other companies, it has bought enough share to wind up on the board by threatening proxy fights and it has claimed some CEO heads; obviously not at Intuit.
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FISHBOWL, EFILECABINET ALLY
- Friday, 05 August 2011
- News and Analysis
- Written by mark
Fishbowl Inventory and eFileCabinet have signed an agreement to sell each other's products and are developing an integration that will be launched at Intuit's Summit 2011 conference in October. Fishbowl customers will be able to order features of the eFileCabinet document management system via through account representatives. The official announcement said the integration would cut down on the need to enter the same data in the two programs. And that seemed to cover everything of value in the integration.
Read more...QLIK TECHNOLOGIES DROPS TO LOSS
- Friday, 05 August 2011
- News and Analysis
- Written by mark
QLIK Technologies, which markets QlikView, lost $2.2 million for the second quarter ended June 30, a sharp swing from net income of $3.5 million in last year’s corresponding period. Revenue for the most recently period was $74 million, an increase of 45 percent from $51.1 million a year earlier.
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