News and Analysis (15657)
SMITH: INTUIT NOT GOING UP MARKET
- Thursday, 13 June 2013
- News and Analysis
- Written by mark
CEO Brad Smith's statement this month that Intuit will not go up market should not surprise anyone. It simply describes what we have seen in the way Intuit has operated distribution and development for QuickBooks Enterprise Suite. However, Smith's comments at the Bank of America Merrill Lynch 2013 Global Technology Conference marks a definitive statement about strategy that I don't remember Intuit having articulated so clearly.
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MBS: EXEC CHANGES COMING?
- Thursday, 13 June 2013
- News and Analysis
- Written by mark
The Dynamics channel is start to bubble with speculation that there are some serious executive changes likely at Microsoft Business Solutions. Since it feels like I rarely speak to the same people in executive interviews year-to-year at Convergence, I'm not sure if that's a new development. What seems more certain is that Michael Park, who was the MBS VP of worldwide sales marketing and operations from July 2009 through August 2012, has left to join HP, a company that can use an influx of talent.
NETSUITE INTROS SPECIALIZED PRODUCTS
- Wednesday, 12 June 2013
- News and Analysis
- Written by mark
NetSuite has rolled out specialized products for Demandware and Magento. The similar offerings seem to be a different product direction than we have seen from the San Mateo, Calif.-based cloud company, with both Demandware and Magento described as operating in an omni-channel environment.
VAR PROGRAMS STALLING
- Wednesday, 12 June 2013
- News and Analysis
- Written by mark
The combination of new players in the market and the move to the cloud in the last few years produced one of the strongest recruitment efforts in the VAR market in a long time. But in the last two years, many of those programs have stalled after a flurry of activity. Two years ago, SAP had the best-run channel conference I've ever attended in Savannah, Ga., a program that was disciplined in staying on message and saying the right things for the channel.
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- Friday, 07 June 2013
- News and Analysis
- Written by mark
Pannell Kerr Forster of Texas has sold its Dynamics NAV practice to Sikich, headquartered in Naperville, Ill. The move takes Houston, Texas-based PKF out of the mid-market ERP VAR business and the deal also includes PKF's Dynamics CRM business. CPA Greg Price and eight members of the NAV team stay in Houston as part of Sikich.
SAGE SELLS $400M U.S. NOTES
- Friday, 07 June 2013
- News and Analysis
- Written by mark
Sage has completed a $400 million issue of U.S. Private Placement loan notes. This is one of those things that does not have a lot of immediate interest in the channel (or probably to anybody but the purchasers and Sage). But the loan issue suggests a certain amount of confidence in the over-all business. At least, it would take a positive image of the company in the United States in order to float the notes, something better than having Sage viewed as a producer of Stone Age software, as often described by rival NetSuite.
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DYNAMICS CRM GOES INTO OFFICE ORBIT
- Friday, 07 June 2013
- News and Analysis
- Written by mark
Microsoft is readying the launch of the next generation of Dynamics CRM, code-named Orion. But probably more important to resellers from a business point of view is the company’s move to discontinue Dynamics CRM Online on the platform of Microsoft Business Solutions, the company unit responsible for the four Dynamics accounting packages. Orion gives CRM a refreshed interface and Microsoft has set up a partner launch portal.
GOLDMINE SETS EMAIL, PHONE LINKS
- Thursday, 06 June 2013
- News and Analysis
- Written by mark
GoldMine has established phone and email connections for users through partnership with two developers. The CRM company says that users of GoldMine 9.2 Premium Edition users can now make and record calls through a partnership with Synety, which makes popular CloudCall on-demand business telephony products. Telephony functions include desktop click-to-dial, integration of detailed call histories, and the ability to embed recordings of calls directly into contact records.
QLIK TECH PICKS NEW CFO
- Thursday, 06 June 2013
- News and Analysis
- Written by mark
Qlik Technologies has named Tim MacCarrick as chief financial officer to replace William Sorenson, who announced in February his plans to leave the company for personal reasons. MacCarrick, whose new position is effective July 1, was previously COO of global vendor finance for De Lage Landen International, a position he took in January 2011. He joined that company in June 2010.
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RAND GROUP HIRES AX MANAGER
- Thursday, 06 June 2013
- News and Analysis
- Written by mark
The Rand Group, a Dynamics reseller based in Houston, Texas, has hired Heather Bevins as manager of its Dynamics AX practice. The announcement was made in late May. However, Bevins’ LinkedIn page shows she joined the value-added reseller in March. Previously, she was with Liberty Lake, Wash.-based ScreenTek in two different positions starting in February 2008.
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