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SPEEDTAX DOES NETSUITE

SpeedTax, the Laguna Hills, Calif.-based sales-and-use tax vendor, has produced an integration of its application with the NetSuite platform. The integration was accomplished by use of NetSuite’s SuiteCloud development platform. The integration between the two Internet-based packages, well, you know the drill, lets NetSuite users handle the variety of sales-and-use tax functions that SpeedTax does for all the other accounting packages for which it has integrations.
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ACCELLOS BUYS VIRTUAL DISPATCH

Accellos, which makes supply chain execution software, has acquired the assets of Virtual Dispatch, a Stoufville, Ontario-based company that markets on-premise and Internet-based transportation management applications.  Accellos said it would integrate some of the acquired assets into its Stratus cloud computing portfolio. Read more...

SUGAR CRM OFFERS OEM VERSION

SugarCRM, the open source software company, has introduced Sugar Platform Edition for the OEM market. The new version from the company that has been enlarging its foothold among mid-market ERP resellers is designed to let OEMs incorporate the CRM product's functionality in business suites and vertical applications. OEMs have access to the Sugar source code and development tools. Read more...

KASEYA SETS UP THIRD-PARTY PROGRAM

Kaseya, which makes IT management applications, has established the Kaseya Third Party Integration Program that enables ISVs to integrate their applications via Kaseya Virtual System Administrator (VSA) as an add-on element by utilizing Kaseya APIs. Integrated products will be featured on Kaseya's website and ISVs have the opportunity to participate in joint sales and marketing activities. Read more...

DYNAMICS IN THE CLOUDS?

Dynamics logoAs they said in the old westerns, "It's quiet out there; too quiet." The question is whether Microsoft has something going on in the clouds or is completely clueless about putting its Dynamics ERP packages into a SaaS environment. I have a lot of trouble believing a company that has been this successful is completely clueless, although you can't rule it out. Read more...

SBS CHARTS VAR AGGREGATION

Jim Bowman and Joe Longo, who were partners and Solomon resellers before they sold their New Jersey-based reselling firm BMS to ePartners in 1999, have joined up again, this time to collect other Dynamics resellers who might be endangered by the new Microsoft partner program. In their post-ePartners experience, Bowman founded Woodbridge, N.J.-based SBS Group. Longo followed Solomon founder Gary Harpst and his new companies. Read more...

NETSUITE HIRING IN R&D

NetSuite plans to grow its development group by about 30 percent and the company said this week in issuing a statement that it is recruiting for 150 jobs. Those are in all functional areas, including sales, customer service and support and engineering and development. Jobs in product development are the largest single area of postings with sales positions second in this wave of hirings. NetSuite lists information about open positions at. www.netsuite.com/careers.

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SOFTWARELINK CLOSES X3 DEAL

About a year and a half after taking the first steps to became a dealer for Sage’s X3 package, SoftwareLink, based in Alpharetta, Ga., has sealed its first  sale of the high-powered manufacturing application. Owner Stan Kania says there are two more deals in the pipeline that he expects to complete by year's end. Asked if the return was worth the large investment and long sales cycle,  Kania replied, "Yes."

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INTUIT CHANNEL MUTATING

BJ SchacknowskiIntuit hasn't announced a change in its channel strategy, but it is implicit in the title change for BJ Schaknowski, who leads the company's channel efforts. He had been director of the Intuit Solution Provider Channel, but in August he became Director - Indirect Channels Sales & Marketing. On his LinkedIn page he described that as being the "Lead Intuit Solution Provider, Distribution, OEM, DMR [direct market resellers], Franchise and Hosting Channels." Read more...

EXACT LINKS WITH AVALARA

Exact logoExact has developed AvaTax for Exact, a version of Avalara's sales-and-use-tax application, that integrates with three Exact software products: Macola ES, Macola Progression and Globe. The integration provides the usual set of capabilities that the web-based Avalara product has brought to other mid-market packages including address validation, jurisdiction, rate, boundary, and rule research, automated rate calculation, returns preparation and remittance.
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