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SUGARCRM NAMES PRODUCT CHIEF
- Thursday, 14 April 2016
- News and Analysis
- Written by mark
SugarCRM has hired Richard Green as chief product officer. In the job, he will lead the company's SugarCRM's engineering and product management teams, The Cupertino, Calf.-based cloud CRM vendor says Green brings expertise in enterprise software, predictive analytics, mobile application design and open source technology. Green was most recently senior sales executive/premium domain broker for Afternic/GoDaddy where he had worked since July 2010.
UNIT4 DEMOS DIGITAL ASSISTANT
- Thursday, 14 April 2016
- News and Analysis
- Written by PMG Admin
Unit4 has demonstrated a Digital Assistant at Connect, its user conference in Amsterdam, the Netherlands. The Unit4 Digital Assistant is scheduled for availability next year. Built on the company's People Platform Premium Edition, the new product combines information from a variety of sources and performs activities on its own initiative and can be configured based on user preference.
TRUECOMMERCE HONORS NEXTEC
- Thursday, 14 April 2016
- News and Analysis
- Written by PMG Admin
TrueCommerce has named reselling firm NexTec Group as Partner of the Year for its work in the Sage EDI arena. TrueCommerce, a subsidiary of HighJump, said such awards honor its VARs for overall sales, professionalism, participation and customer feedback. "NexTec showed innovative spirit, excellent knowledge of commerce network requirements and outstanding customer service," Haitham Ghadiry, sales and marketing VP for TrueCommerce, said in a prepared statement.
EPICOR CHANGES CHANNEL HEADS
- Wednesday, 13 April 2016
- News and Analysis
- Written by PMG Admin
Epicor Software has reformulated its channel leadership. Matt Bauer, who started as channel director for the Americas in February 2012, left the company in January. His duties have been taken over by John Matterson, who became a senior director for the channel program in October. A spokesperson said that Matterson "has taken on an expanded role which includes what Matt was doing.
ANGUS NORTON LEAVING XERO
- Tuesday, 12 April 2016
- News and Analysis
- Written by PMG Admin
Chief product officer Angus Norton is leaving Xero after working in that position since October 2014. Based in New Zealand, Norton is returning to his home in Seattle, Wash. His duties are being taken over by Duncan Ritchie, chief platform officer, with the product and platform teams being merged together as the cloud-based software company completes its platform migration to AWS.
ENVISION CONFERENCE? NO VISION
- Friday, 08 April 2016
- News and Analysis
- Written by mark
Satya Nadella, CEO of Microsoft, makes a very expensive emcee. And given his keynote at last week's Envision conference, the man who made $18.3 million for the year ended June 30 (which works out to slightly more than $2,000 an hour), hardly earned his keep. He talked about the use of video bots to mediate electronic communication, but his function was primarily what I call "Playing the acts on and off the stage".
CCG SPINS OUT SOFTWARE UNIT
- Friday, 08 April 2016
- News and Analysis
- Written by mark
Deltek reseller Central Consulting Group has spun off its software arm as EleVia Software. CCC co-founder Jim Falkanger, now CEO of EleVia Software, cited a "tremendous" response to CCG's offering add-on products for Deltek Vision beginning in 2009. "To better meet the increasing demand for both our products and our consulting services, we're separating the two to give each a sharper focus," he said in a prepared statement.
INFOR RAIDS ORACLE RETAIL
- Thursday, 07 April 2016
- News and Analysis
- Written by mark
Unless there is a deal I have not heard about, Infor has been raiding Oracle Retail for the last several months. It's hardly the first time Infor has hired experienced Oracle staff. When Infor CEO Charles Phillips came from Oracle in 2010, he brought a team of senior execs with him and the COO, CFO, CMO and one of two presidents Infor presidents are from Larry Ellison's company. There were also several retail hires from Target.
STUDER RETURNS TO ORACLE
- Thursday, 07 April 2016
- News and Analysis
- Written by PMG Admin
After spending a year (officially) at NetSuite, Fred Studer, has returned to Oracle after being away from that software company since September 2007. He has come back to Oracle as SVP of product development. Studer was chief marketing officer at NetSuite from December 2014 through December 2015 when he was forced out. Before that, he worked at Microsoft from September 2007 through December 2014.
EPICOR MAKES PALSULE CTO
- Thursday, 07 April 2016
- News and Analysis
- Written by mark
Himanshu Palsule seems to do well wherever he goes. And after serving since November as head of global delivery for Epicor Software, the software company has made him chief technology officer. He replaces CTO Jeff Kissling who was become chief scientist with a focus on research and technology innovation. Kissling had held the position since May.
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