Epicor Software has unveiled Epicor ERP version 10 at its annual customer conference. The product is already available and the company this week gave a description of the features, along with the names of nine companies already live with the product. Epicor 10 gives users the choice of on-premise, cloud or managed service deployment and comes with a touch-enabled interface.

Infor will cut margins for maintenance and support, amid what appears to be broad new approach that will have a severe impact on its channel. The change is effective June 1. There are reports that maintenance and support margins, are being cut 50 percent and that the channel was blindsided by a move that will have a severe impact. Also making the rounds is the belief that Infor is going to stretch out payments to its channel.

A weak pipeline in the United States hurt Columbus in the first quarter ended March 31 and drug down North American results. "We did not close enough deals in Q4 and it impacted us in Q1," CEO Thomas Honoré said during this week's earnings webcast in describing the problems in this country. No other details about the pipeline shortage were discussed. The company reported North American revenue dropped by 15.3 percent for the first quarter ended March 31, while EBIDTA for the continent fell 78 percent from last year's corresponding period.

Dynamics reseller Socius has signed Deep River Technologies as a sales affiliate under the Microsoft Master VAR program. Deep River is only the second affiliate announced by one of the three American Master VARs in 2014 and the other was Socius' signing of NorthLake Partners earlier this year. The SBS Group, which has been the most active of the three, has not announced any so far this year and Tribridge, the other Master VAR, has signed only one in the program's more than two years in operation.