The VAR signup war is on in the cloud. Acumatica, Intacct and NetSuite all issued press releases this week about their newly recruited VARs.  We’ll pass on the box shore for the moment, who has signed up the most, the biggest or best. The fact that the pace of announcements is picking up so rapidly, with both NetSuite and Intacct making inroads at accounting firms, showing the scope of the change. And that can mean only one thing – companies are looking at and buying Internet-based financial applications at a pace we haven’t seen before. Read more...

This is more in the line of Sage officially announced Accpac 6.0, since the company has been selling the next generation of this product since December. So anything said here is hardly a big secret. Also, this is more a hold-the-line announcement, getting something into the market until the real product comes out at the end of the year. The main thing hitting now, the portal interface, gives everyone a chance to get familiar with the program. Read more...