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GEFFEL GONE AS SAGE TIMBERLINE GM

Friday, 22 January 2010
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Long-time Timberline executive John Geffel has left Sage North America within the last week. Geffel joined Timberline in 1983 when it was an independent, publicly held company. He became SVP marketing in December 1999 and joined Sage when it acquired Timberline in 2004. Geffel had been general manager of the CRE division (construction, real estate) that markets Timberline's construction applications for Sage. Jodi Uecker-Rust, president of Sage Business Solutions,  is handling the duties until a new GM is hired.

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RUSS GRAF TURNS UP AT AVALARA

Friday, 22 January 2010
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Former reseller Russ Graf has been hired as a western regional sales manager for sales-and-use tax vendor, Avalara. Graf co-founded two reselling businesses, Effective Systems Consulting and ProSoft Technologies. Read more...

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RED WING INTROS RATIO MODULE

Friday, 22 January 2010
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red wing logoRed Wing Software, based in the Minnesota city of the same name, has released a ratio module for its CenterPoint Accounting line. The module enables users to analyze financial data by utilizing a variety of industry-standard ratios. Read more...
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ATLANTA CONFERENCE HOT SPOT

Friday, 22 January 2010
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Those of us who attend conferences for different vendors find the host cities going in waves. I've suspect there's competitive bidding going on. In the last few years, a lot of vendors went to the Gaylord Hotels, picking up some savings on the opening of the Gaylord National and rotating through the chain. Atlanta is on the map this year. Read more...
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HIRING ON THE CHANNEL EXEC SIDE

Friday, 22 January 2010
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Last week's issue focused on reports of channel recruitment by several companies, including SAP. And events of the last two weeks support the idea that SAP is ramping up activity as it has hired a North American channel VP while SugarCRM, an open source vendor, picked up an SAP vet for its channel development. Read more...
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MICROSOFT AND INTUIT JOIN HANDS IN THE CLOUDS

Friday, 22 January 2010
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Microsoft and Intuit have agreed to integrate capabilities of Microsoft's Windows Azure and Intuit's Partner Platform so that developers can write more apps in the clouds. This announcement is aimed at small business, and it shows the push Microsoft is making for Azure, which is something of an operating environment for SaaS applications. Read more...
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SAGE OFFICIALLY LAUNCHES X3

Friday, 22 January 2010
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sageIt was sort of a grand opening event as Sage had the worldwide launch of Sage ERP X3 yesterday in France; a grand opening in the sense the store has been open a few years. The newsiest part of this debut of the latest version of one of Sage’s worldwide products was that the company has created an international team to support the development of the Sage ERP X3 business. Read more...
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SAP HOSTING EVENT: HIRES CHANNEL VP

Thursday, 21 January 2010
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Before making any deep analysis about an SAP invitation to a channel event in Las Vegas in late February, I was thinking the company tends to have its get-togethers for Business One VARs about this time of year. But I was happy to hear from SAP. I thought maybe it had lost email privileges. Read more...
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SUGARCRM PICKS CHANNEL EXEC

Thursday, 21 January 2010
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SugarCRM, a manufacturing of open source CRM products, has hired Chuck Coulson as vice president of business development. I mention SugarCRM for the first time in this newsletter because it has been reported as one of the vendors that is knocking on reseller's doors. Read more...
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KASEYA INTEGRATING LENOVO TECHNOLOGY

Thursday, 21 January 2010
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Managed services provider Kaseya has reached an agreement via which it and PC vendor Lenovo will work on joint education and marketing programs for managed services resellers. Read more...
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