What a difference five years makes. Five years ago, New Orleans was high and dry (well, low and dry?), but things were about to get wetter. And five years ago then corporate VP Doug Burgum was a presenter at Microsoft's annual financial analyst day on July 28, 2005. Fortunately, a query brings up the transcript in which Burgum told analysts about GP 9.0. Read more...

Sage is giving its reselling channel the opportunity to sell its healthcare products. The company believes that given the stimulus money and healthcare program this is going to be a revenue opportunity for one to two years and given the size of the industry, I'd say more. The first reseller to sign is Alliance Solutions Group, a Bradenton, Fla.-based VAR that sells Timberline, among other Sage products.

The SBS Group, a Woodbridge, N.J.-based reseller, has hired Dynamics sales specialist Lou Gralau as its strategic account manager. Graulau had previously been sales and marketing VP for Manhattan-based Queue Associates, also a Dynamics SL reseller. He will evaluate the business processes of potential clients and assisting in an advisory role for other members within the SBS corporate team. It seems to me with the litigated jump of two key Sage X3 product guys from Nextec to SWK Technologies this year that we are seeing more poaching than we’ve seen in a while.

Intacct is working with Avectra to provide association management and financial management applications by integrating Avectra’s NetForum Pro system with Intacct’s online financial applications. They will jointly market and sell the software. Is it just me, or do others find it overly obvious when these releases about integration of systems talk of "eliminating the need for manual re-keying of data between systems"? Read more...