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NET@WORK GETS FITZGERALD GROUP

Net@Work made its last acquisition in 2009 when it picked up the Sage business from Solutions Strategists. Net@Work has acquired Sharon, Mass.-based Fitzgerald Group and will be maintaining that office and keeping owner Mike Fitzgerald. Fitzgerald's MAS 90/200 and 500 business will become part of Net@Work.  However, the Deltek software reselling business will not, according to Net@Work co-founder Alex Solomon. "We are not picking up Deltek. It didn’t make sense," says Solomon. Net@Work said that would add to its more than 130 consultants and support personnel. Fitzgerald, which employed about 12 people, was named to the Sage's President Circle for 2009, its third straight year and the fifth time in seven years. Meanwhile, Solomon noted that hascompany has begun selling Sage's high-end X3 manufacturing package. It hired Marco Garneri, who had been employed by an Italian reseller, and had him move to New York to provide technological knowledge and consulting for the X3 business.

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BIZ ADVICE ON TAP AT INSIGHTS

Sage has a banker coming to its Insights conference next month and that's one of the best ideas I've heard about the annual reseller confab. The session was detailed by Rob Johnson, senior director of partner programs at Sage North America, at an event held recently in New York City. He said that resellers need business advice on how to obtain capital and a lot of other issues surrounding the use of money and financing. Read more...

SWK REPORTS BIG DEAL

SWK Technologies has reported a major sale, the kind of announcement that hasn't happened formally in a while so its economy must be improving. The Livingston, N.J.-based Sage reseller said the deal was to a major financial services company in New York with the MAS 500 software and services adding up to more than $100,000. Read more...

ZENITH INFOTECH OPENS ZENITH UNIVERSITY

Zenith logoZenith Infotech has opened Zenith University, a Web-based, interactive learning management system, for its managed service channel members. ZU will give the access to training on the complete line of Zenith’s backup and disaster recovery and remote monitoring and management systems. There are more than 40 courses online with plans to add more regularly. Subjects include the virtualization of failed servers, mastering Zenith’s managed services infrastructure, configuring portals and general troubleshooting. Read more...

SUGARCRM UPDATES INTERFACE

SugarCRMSugarCRM, which markets open source customer relationship management software, has released a beta Sugar 6 which provides a new user interface designed to speed up and simplify use while providing interoperability with other web applications and mobile devices. Some of the change comes from a revamped User Setup wizard. The application also provides a shortcut bar throughout all screens. Read more...

THE LOST ART OF PROMOTING CONFERENCES?

Obviously this item doesn't apply to Microsoft, which has given the Web a huge dose of Convergence that's hard to miss. But there are two shows going on this week, right now, and if you went to one vendor's Web site, you could miss it.  Exact Engage, a user conference, ended yesterday. Read more...

LOOKING AT INFOR'S RESELLERS


Infor logoWhen Infor announced on April 6, that it had signed 25 new resellers, it didn't release any names. And it's been hard to find new ones via a Web search. One of the few that came up was Merino Consulting Services, an American subsidiary of an India-based Infor channel partner (whether these companies are simply VARs is something I'm not clear on). Read more...

DELTEK EXEC PAY DROPS

Compensation for three top Deltek executives dropped last year as the value of equity awards shrank. CEO Kevin Parker pulled in $1.6 million in compensation for 2009, down 46.1 percent from $2.3 million the prior year.  That was because the value of his equity awards dropped to $588,000 from $1.4 million. Read more...

CYMA BUNDLE OFFERED

Cyma logoCyma Systems has put together a specially priced bundle of products for nonprofit, 501(c)(3) charitable organizations that is available until July 31 for such companies provided their annual revenue is $5 million or less. These organizations can purchase the combination of General Ledger, Accounts Payable, and Grant Tracking modules with two concurrent users, the database application and one year of software updates. Cyma says the regular price is more than $3,800, but the bundle is being offered for $795.

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SAGE SALE TALKS; NOT LIKELY, BUT

Some have been reading a report from Citigroup analysts, quoted in the publication, Accountancy Age, as stating that Sage might sell its North American operations. I read the statement from the analysts as not saying that at all, but leaving the impression the financial organization thinks Sage’s healthcare business might be on the block. Here's the key statement about Sage North America as a candidate for acquisition. Read more...

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