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MICROSOFT SPELLS OUT CHANNEL DOWNSIZING

Thursday, 29 April 2010
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Jeff EdwardsHow far Microsoft plans to go in shrinking its channel got definition this week from Jeff Edwards, director of partner strategy. During an interview at this week’s Convergence user conference in Atlanta, Edwards said there are about 950 United States partners and the company “needs 300 to 400.” Microsoft has spent the last year signaling it wants to drive business to larger VARs, the midsize ones to grow and the smaller ones to combine. Read more...
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SURPRISE ISSUE

Friday, 23 April 2010
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This issue wasn’t supposed to exist because my family and I were supposed to leave for Amsterdam on April 15 and be in Paris today. But, well … you know. We’ve gotten a full refund on airfare and are filing claims for cancellation insurance and hope to use that money again. So the missing issue, one of the four not published annually, will be missing another Friday, probably in June, so we can spend that money to get to Europe. Next week should be full of informaton as I will be attending Convergence in Atlanta. However, I'm paying attention to any reports of active volcanos in Georgia.
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CRG RELEASES PROJECT ACCOUNTING CUBES

Friday, 23 April 2010
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The Corporate Renaissance Group has released Project Accounting Cubes for Dynamics GP Project Accounting. The company said the cubes enable users to complete detailed reporting and analytics within Project Accounting in a drag-and-drop environment. The cubes work with Excel and other analytical packages. CRG also introduced a Universal Data Connector to enable users to import data from any external source into Cost Allocator. Read more...
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NETSUITE HAIRBALLS ON PARADE? NOT!

Friday, 23 April 2010
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NetSuite LogoThere’s a profound sense of disappointment that after a promising press release issued on March 25, NetSuite has yet to publish the names of the winners of its first-annual Hairball Awards. Thirty companies were nominated for the honor, named for their ability to untangle the hairball of code in corporations, and the winners were to be announced at last week’s SuiteCloud conference in California. Read more...
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DYNAMICS REVENUE TURNS AROUND

Friday, 23 April 2010
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Revenue from Dynamics products rose for the first time since the September 2008 quarter as Microsoft reported results for the third quarter ended March 31. Dynamics revenue was up 3 percent over last year’s corresponding period and that contribution left sales for the nine months down 1 percent. The company does not provide actual dollar amounts for its Dynamics results. The results are buried inside of Microsoft Business Division, whose revenue was $4.24 billion in the most recently ended quarter, was down from $4.5 billion a year earlier. Read more...
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WALKER LEAVING SAGE

Thursday, 22 April 2010
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There shouldn’t be too many people in the Sage world who don’t know that Sage Group announced earlier this week that Paul Walker will be leaving after 26 years with the company and 16 years as chief executive. That would seem to signal a change in direction. What change? I don’t think any of us know the secrets of Newcastle-Upon-Tyne, home of the mother ship for Sage North America. His departure, which seems contingent on finding a replacement, came after last week’s speculation by CitiGroup analysts that the healthcare group is ripe for being sold off. I continue to read their remarks as applying to healthcare, not the whole company. Read more...
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ADVENTURES IN PC-LAND

Thursday, 22 April 2010
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My HP notebook developed a serious flicker and some nice color bars, along with a spreading discoloration. It looks like it got hit, except that all I remember doing is turning it slightly on the Amtrak train seat tray to use it. After digging out the support telephone number for HP support, I recited the product serial number, my home address, family history and elementary school grade average to verify my identify to be told it was a mother board problem and the warranty and/or support contract expired six days ago. “But we didn’t get the computer until June. How could it have expired?” Read more...
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ACUMATICA DEBUTS 1.4

Thursday, 22 April 2010
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Acumatica, which makes Internet-based and on-premise financial applications, has released Acumatica 1.4. Among the new features are import and export tools for integrating Acumatica with external applications and data in either deployment method along with new logistics management features that include advanced drop shipment, barcode printing and landed cost functionality. Read more...

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EXACT NEW HQ A SIGN OF OPTIMISM?

Thursday, 22 April 2010
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Exact logoMaybe I’m reading too much into this. But I’d like to think when a company moves into a new headquarters facility that it is expressing confidence in its future. Anyway, Exact has moved into a new HQ building after 25 years in the same spot in Delft, the Netherlands, into the Technopolis Innovation Park in the same city. The press release didn’t describe the size of the building, but said that for the 500 employees in Delft the new facility offers “a flexible, open work environment, in terms of both time and space.” Read more...
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MICROSOFT ROLLS OUT GP 2010, SURPRISE

Thursday, 22 April 2010
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It would have been hard not to miss the build up and there was only a bit of letdown when the press release issued under NDA before it was made public turned out to be for Dynamics GP 2010. Considering the number of launch events resellers have scheduled for the new version, there weren’t too many people that didn’t know this product was hitting the market soon—general release is May 1. Errol Schoenfish, director of product management, said there are three themes with GP 2010. Read more...

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