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SAGE MOVING PRESIDENT'S CIRCLE EVENT

Tom Miller, SageSage North America is moving its President's Circle event to the same site as its Summit conference next year. Instead of being held at the Fontainebleau Hotel in Miami, it is moving to the Gaylord Opryland in Nashville, Tenn., just before Summit, which is scheduled for August 12 through 17. Tom Miller, the company's channel VP said Sage felt the "recognition component" for the President's Circle wasn't as strong as it could be when the event was separate. That's the official story. Read more...

INFOR HQ GOING TO BIG APPLE IN 2012

Charles Phillips, InforSoftware giant Infor is moving its headquarters to New York City next summer. Infor’s headquarters in Alpharetta, Ga. will operate as its main shared services center, housing functions such as finance, human resources and tax. The new HQ will be located at 641 Avenue of the Americas.

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VAR STARS COMING DECEMBER 2

The long-anticipated Bob Scott's VAR Stars 2011 will be announced on December 2. And to heighten the anticipation, there will be no newsletter on Friday, November 25. Actually, that schedule has a lot more to do with Thanksgiving than it does with anticipation. Do you really want to be reading this thing on Black Friday? In any case, brake a leg, a turkey leg that is. Or break the leg of the fowl of your preference. Read more...

ACCOUNTMATE MAKES 3RD-PARTY LINKS

accountmate_logoAccountMate has linked its financial software to the payment processing services of Accelerated Payment Technologies. APT’s X-Charge system provides automated payment processing to AccountMate users. X-Charge handles credit and debit card payments, gift cards and e-checks, with real-time access to customer information. Read more...

INTUIT’S QBES MARCHES ON

Brad Smith, IntuitIntuit’s QuickBooks Enterprise Solutions reached 60,000 active subscribers on October 30 as the mid-market product moved up by 3,000 customers from three months earlier. The company gave those numbers as it issued its financial results for the first quarter ended October 30.  That’s the third quarter in row the number of active subscribers - those on maintenance as opposed to those who buy and don't stay - went up by 3,000. And the growth pushes the total to a third higher than it was at the end of fiscal 2010 on July 31, 2010. Read more...

EUROPEAN DYNAMICS VARS IN FLUX

Bo MarinsenGiven that the firm was named to Microsoft’s Inner Circle this year, it’s interesting that the CEO and founder of reseller Norriq has gone out the door this week.  The Danish firm has issued a press release stating that the board of directors has dismissed CEO Bo Martinsen. (Bo knows Dynamics?) The company also hired a new CFO for its French business. Norriq is the third important Dynamics reseller in Europe to undergo serious changes. That includes the sale this month of reselling operations by both Qurius and Columbus IT Partner to Prodware. All four companies made the Inner Circle for 2011.

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ALFAPEOPLE MOVES INTO QUATEMALA

GuatemalaAlfapeople, a Dynamics AX retail specialist, has opened operations in Guatemala. That’s the second new country entered this year by the Microsoft reseller—the first came when Alfapeople entered the United States in late winter. Based in Europe, Alfapeople seems to be moving the opposite direction of Columbus IT Partner, as noted in another item. Read more...

ALCHEMEX OFFERS PFW BI

alchemex logoAlchemex has launched Sage PFW ERP Intelligence, an Excel-based business intelligence application. What is more interesting is what the press release announcing the product doesn’t say. It doesn’t say that Alchemex is now owned by Sage and other than the fact that Sage officially confirmed the purchase; nothing has been put on either companies’ website about the deal.

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SERERRA OFFERS NETSUITE APP

sererra logo Sererra, which carries a variety of SaaS-based applications, has launched a Facebook Webstore Application for those utilizing the NetSuite eCommerce platform. The Sererra product enables NetSuite users to have catalog information, checkout, customer center and functionalities hosted in NetSuite. However, customers do not have to leave Facebook to shop or complete the purchase transaction. Sererra carries a wide line of SaaS products including Intacct, SAP Business ByDesign and Salesforce.com While it was a Platinum sponsor of Intacct's recent reseller conference, the products it has developed for the cloud are more concentrated on NetSuite. Read more...

BDO SOLUTIONS GOING OVERSEAS

Michael StranzBDO Solutions, the consulting and reselling arm of BDO Canada, is expanding into the European market in cooperation with other BDO firms. The reseller, which handles Dynamics GP and NAV, has gotten operations up and running with BDO Netherlands, according to Michael Stranz, a partner in the Waterloo, Ontario, office. The reselling business, which employs 70, is also planning to move into other European countries Read more...

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