Companies appear to be taking advantage of improved revenue to ramp up spending, probably spending they were reluctant to make during the height of the recession. That’s suggested by the earnings reports by Deltek for its December quarter and Intuit for its January quarter. Read more...

Ross Systems, which is owned by CDC Software, has introduced Ross in the Cloud, a SaaS version of its Ross ERP suite. This application is hosted by Ross and is available on a monthly subscription price based on number of users, application configuration and service term. Read more...

Syspro has hired consulting firm, iPlan Industrial Engineers, to write a guide that helps executive decision makers set strategy for selecting, implementing and operating ERP systems. Syspro said the process is based around iPlan’s “Degrees of Freedom” framework with the book providing different strategies for “1) the system aspect, 2) the business processes aspect and 3) the people organization aspect in achieving the business objective.”

With the new CEO, Martijn Janmaat, making comments about changes that represent a continued reflection on the job performance of his predecessor Raj Patel (my view), Exact reported improvement in its financial condition. While revenue dropped by 1.9 percent for the year ended December, it grew in the second half with growth accelerating in the fourth quarter.