AccountMate has released AccountMate 8 for SQL and Express incorporating new module, Custom Field Manager, which enables authorized users to add custom fields to new tabs within all accounting modules. Fields can also be added to the database while custom fields can be read-only or editable in select screen forms and the software can be customized to capture additional information without the need to modify source code. Also new is the ability to drill down on details in the Executive Summary Report, the ability to temporarily hold or increase customer credit limits, combine electronic payments during bank reconciliation, allocate quantity updated during work order explosion and support multi-step processing of work orders. Read more...

After an interview in March turned up Exact’s plans to develop its channel, it seemed time for an update, particularly since the number of resellers that were shown on the site this month, 30, are the same number shown in March. So I called Exact to talk to Frank Grogan, the director of channel sales. I was put through, except that Grogan now is VP of product development for a company in the healthcare business. Read more...

Somehow the 8-K filed by Edgewater Technology slid by me in March. But it still makes good reading to see Fullscope’s results as an independent company. And among the most notables figures was that the company had $28 million accumulated loss and a $3.9 million shareholder’s deficit on Dec. 31, 2008.  Fullscope lost $350,037 in fiscal 2008, compared to net income of $945,036 for 2007. Read more...

Cougar Mountain Software has kept its software line PCI compliant with the release of Denali 2.9. PCI is a standard for business that store, process or transmit credit and debit card data. To meet the PCI Standard Cougar is working with Merchant Warehouse whose Web-based MerchantWare Transport works with Denalis Accounts Receivable, Point of Sale, and Order Entry modules. When purchases use credit or debit cards in a system utilizing Denali, all data is transmitted to MerchantWarehouse’s payment gateway and all data is processed outside of Denali and the authorization automatically returned to the appropriate Denali module. Read more...