Intuit has eliminated a $1,000 annual fee for members of its Intuit Solutions Provider program. A spokesperson said that the decision "is consistent with Intuit’s practice of constantly reviewing and evaluating the right program requirements and benefits to meet the needs of the company’s customers, solution providers". That seems to have been the biggest news out of the Intuit Solution Provider Summit 2011, which was held October 9 through 12.

The Sage Group, parent to Sage North America, has been sued by a private equity firm over its decision to drop a bid for MYOB this year. Sage broke the news in issuing a statement which said that, "Sage strongly rejects the claim, which it understands to be in the region of A$130m, and will defend itself vigorously."

Organizations that talk to SAP because of their interest in SaaS often bring NetSuite into the discussions.  That was the process outlined this week by NetSuite’s CEO Ron Gill at the Piper Jaffray Technology, Media & Telecommunications Conference. Gill said NetSuite often gets into deals it otherwise wouldn’t when SAP talks to prospects first.

The Panorama Consulting Group has issued its top ten predictions for the ERP market for next year.  The most interesting thing is what two of them may mean in terms of opportunity. These are No. 3, acceleration of ERP failures and No. 5, fewer do-it-yourself ERP products. There’s a direct relationship between these since it’s the D-I-Y jobs that lead to failures. It’s sort of like the TV sitcom when the main character tries to fix the plumbing to save money and ends up spending a bundle to rebuild the bathroom.