Edgewater Technology roared out of the second quarter ended June 30 with revenue of $23.4 million, up 94 percent from $12 million in last year’s corresponding period. While it lost $90,000 that was sharper lower than $1.3 million in red ink a year earlier. And $562,000 was taken off earnings in what were termed non-routine operating expenses associated with its acquisition of Meridian Consulting International. Read more...

SAP finally hit the market in volume with its long-delayed SaaS-product, Business By Design. The official announcement bills the new Business By Design as providing "the mature customer lifecycle management capabilities necessary to support a large volume rollout and reduce the cost of delivery." It also provides multi-tenancy. Tools for ramping sales up quickly include start packages that offer standard features at fixed implementation prices.

It's not quite ready to compete with Julia Child, but the Microsoft Dynamics GP 2010 Cookbook, authored by Mark Polino, principal consultant at Atlanta-based IBIS, provides features and techniques for helping customers improve their use of Dynamics GP. The company claims that "most recipes are applicable to previous Dynamics GP versions as well as GP 2010." The recipes are consolidated from a 50 Tips in 50 Minutes for Dynamics presentation in 2008, to which another 50 tips were added. The book can be ordered Amazon and Barnes & Noble.

The best way to look at NetSuite's results for the second quarter ended June 30, is that it took the nearly $7 million increase in revenue over last year's corresponding period and pumped it into growing the company. That meant an extra $2.2 million went into product development, up 18.4 percent over a year ago, while an additional $3.6 million went into sales and marketing, up 19.8 percent and another $1 million into G&A, or plus 16 percent.