Sage has introduced X3 V6.2 offering two editions of its high-end ERP package. The first is the Standard Edition, a preconfigured option for companies with fewer than 50 users. The application comes with a role-based portal with 16 predefined roles, along with a library of more than 200 standard visual process flows, predefined statistics and reports as well as a setup wizard tool, data migration tools and plug-and-play functionality.

The number of active users of QuickBooks Enterprise Solutions rose by 25.6 percent in one year as Intuit closed its third quarter on April 30 with 54,000 active customers. That’s compared to 43,000 in the year earlier quarter and the figure is 50-percent higher than the same quarter two years ago. It would be interesting to get a break out of direct sales versus channel on this, not that I expect that’s likely to happen. But I’ll guess there can’t be that much coming in from VARs.

The merger of Activant and Epicor under the latter’s name has led to a company led by two senior executives from the former. With Epicor CEO George Klaus stepping aside to remain as chairman, his former spot was taken by Activant CEO Pervez Qureshi. Qureshi, who was president and CEO of Activant from 2006, served as COO and EVP starting in 2004. He is joined in the executive suite by CFO Kathy Crusco, who moves into the same spot with the combined companies. She joined Activant in May 2007. Read more...