The SBS Group has brought In Balance of Bakersfield, Calif., into its network. The California company is now known as the SBS Group Central California office as SBS continues to expand under the Microsoft Master VAR program. The other two Master VARs, Tribridge and Socius, have signed one each so this continues to be pretty much an SBS show. In Balance sells Dynamics GP, SL and CRM. In Balance is headed by CEO Sandy Foster.

 

Read more...

Acumatica has beefed up its channel team with two hires. The most interesting is the naming of Mike Silver to lead partner consulting. Silver founded Omnios which was purchased by the SBS Group. Not surprisingly, Silver's roots as in selling Solomon, which is the architectural ancestor of Acumatica's application. Read more...

It seems appropriate to mention up front that Serenic signed Catapult ERP, a reseller based in western Canada as part of its channel this month. That's on top of three U.S. VARs picked up in April and some international ones last year. Read more...

No, NetSuite did not make a big deal about replacing QuickBooks in its first-ever Suitey awards. But in the six categories in which the displaced financial package was named, QuickBooks was involved in six of them. The Suiteys were handed out last week and replaced the infamous Hair Ball Awards. Read more...