News and Analysis (15671)
SAP EXEC: CLOUD CLARITY NEEDED
- Tuesday, 04 December 2012
- News and Analysis
- Written by mark
SAP needs to do a better job of educating customers about the impact of its push to the cloud on the installed base, according to Adrian Simpson, chief technology officer of SAP U.K. Simpson made his remarks last week in an interview at the Business Cloud Summit in London.
CEO PARKER LEAVING DELTEK
- Monday, 03 December 2012
- News and Analysis
- Written by mark
Kevin Parker is leaving Deltek after seven years as CEO on Friday, December 7. Mike Corkery, CFO of the software company, will serve as acting CEO. We were told that the private equity investment firm Thoma Bravo, which bought the company in October, tends to buy companies with management it likes.
NEXT WEEK: VAR STARS ANNOUNCED
- Friday, 30 November 2012
- News and Analysis
- Written by mark
The 2012 class of Bob Scott's VAR Stars will be announced next week. The special publication in which the names are revealed will be available as a PDF that will be downloadable from this site. And as usual, major trends in the midmarket reselling business will be discussed in tandem with our listing of 100 quality resellers. This year's list contains a number of first timers, along with familiar names of top performers.
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ACUMATICA MOVES HQ TO WASHINGTON
- Friday, 30 November 2012
- News and Analysis
- Written by mark
Acumatica has relocated its headquarters from Bethesda, Md., to Kirkland, Wash. The vendor says the new office will be open on December 3. COO Yury Larichev says the move is designed to give the company access to the talent pool in Washington to support plans to double channel partner sales, pre-sales consulting and other operational areas next year. He said it would also enable Acumatica to develop strong channel partner support on the West Coast. Microsoft’s cloud platform,” added Larichev. He noted the software engineering team remains in Russia
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DYNAMICS CRM DIRECTION SET
- Friday, 30 November 2012
- News and Analysis
- Written by mark
Marketing automation is going to become a major area of investment for Microsoft Dynamics CRM, according to the company’s latest statement of direction. That statement describes a “focus on driving a new category of integrated marketing solutions.”
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RAND GROUP BUYS BI SPECIALIST
- Friday, 30 November 2012
- News and Analysis
- Written by mark
The Rand Group, a Houston, Texas-based Dynamics reseller, has picked up assets and employees of SMBology. Founded in 2003, SMBology has described itself as offering strategic consulting, user experience design, and application development. In its announcement, Rand emphasized the expansion of services by adding a suite of business applications and custom business intelligence dashboards based on Microsoft Sharepoint.
XERO GETS $49M IN U.S.MONEY
- Thursday, 29 November 2012
- News and Analysis
- Written by mark
New Zealand-based cloud vendor Xero has raised $49 million in capital from its existing investors. Valar Ventures and Matrix Capital Management placed $49 million and also purchased $18 million in shares from Xero’s three largest shareholders.
NETSUITE SIGNS SAGE U.K. DEVELOPER
- Thursday, 29 November 2012
- News and Analysis
- Written by mark
NetSuite has enrolled Eureka Solutions, a reseller based in the United Kingdom, in its channel program. Perhaps more important is that NetSuite has reached into Sage's homeland to pick up a company that had been a Sage loyalist. Visit Eureka's website and one of the prominent choices is "Sage Development".
EXACT NAMES CLOUD HEAD
- Thursday, 29 November 2012
- News and Analysis
- Written by mark
Exact has named an executive to run its new Cloud Solutions division, filling the last major open position in the company's reorganization this year. Hartmut Wagner will start his new job on January 7 and will become a member of the board of managing directors in May. Previously, Wagner was director of Hewlett-Packard's information management software business in EMEA.
NETSUITE PICKS INVESTMENT OVER MARGIN
- Wednesday, 28 November 2012
- News and Analysis
- Written by mark
NetSuite is willing to sacrifice improvement in its operating margins in 2013 in order to invest in promising areas. That message was delivered this week by the company's CFO Ron Gill at the Credit Suisse 2012 Technology Conference.
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