News and Analysis (15673)
SUGAR RELEASES VAR HONOREES
- Friday, 17 June 2011
- News and Analysis
- Written by mark
SugarCRM has released the names of resellers that it honored at its channel conference in April. And among the awards handed out was the naming of the following as MVPs for outstanding performance: BrainSell, Cynergy Solutions, Epicom, GrowIT, Insignio CRM, iZeno, Loaded Technologies, Profiling Solutions, RedK, and Redpill Linpro. The company also said Levementum became its first member of the Million Dollar Club with more than $1 million in billings. The only name I recognized was BrainSell, which handles much of Sage’s financial software lineup and a variety of CRM packages including SalesLogix, Sage CRM, Dynamics CRM and PIvotalCRM.
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ALFAPEOPLE NAMES VITAK DIRECTOR
- Friday, 17 June 2011
- News and Analysis
- Written by mark
AlfaPeople, which specializes in the retail market, has named David Vitak as partner and director of product management for its operations in the United States. Vitak was director of product management and marketing at Navision and Damgaard and was a key player when Navision began building its channel in this country. AlfaPeople says Vitak, based in the Atlanta area, has been in involved in several large store-focused implementations as the chief architect and pre-sales lead.
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NETSUITE INKS BURR PILGER MAYER
- Friday, 17 June 2011
- News and Analysis
- Written by mark
NetSuite has entered a systems integrator partnership with Burr Pilger Mayer, a San Jose, Calif.-based accounting firm, which plans to build a cloud integration practice. Besides implementing and supporting the NetSuite line, the firm will build vertical applications for the NetSuite SuiteCloud platform. It plans to write applications to serve companies in markets including manufacturing, technology, retail, professional services and life sciences.
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OPEN SYSTEMS ADDS VENDOR
- Friday, 17 June 2011
- News and Analysis
- Written by mark
Open Systems has been active in 2011 in its announcement of members of its Preferred Vendor program. In fact, I don’t think it’s had this much news about such vendors in the almost 20 years I’ve been covering this business. This time, it has added SmartLinc, which will integrate its web-based shipping system, Process Shipper, with the Traverse and Open Systems Accounting Software Lines. Process Shipper supports all carriers from UPS, USPS, FedEx, DHL, LTL and Full Truck load carriers to regional carriers, local couriers or a company’s own vehicle fleet. Read more...
SERENIC OKS STOCK BUYBACK
- Friday, 17 June 2011
- News and Analysis
- Written by mark
Canadian Serenic Corp., which owns the Serenic Navigator nonprofit accounting software line, has a plan to buy back up to 10 percent of its publicly traded stock. The company will conduct a Normal Course Issuer bid under which it could buy up to 938,249 of the 9.38 million that are publicly traded. That’s out of a total 15.2 million common shares issued and outstanding. The bid starts on June 23 and ends on June 22, 2012 or earlier if the number of shares sought has been obtained. Read more...
SAP DEBUTS SME BI LINES
- Friday, 17 June 2011
- News and Analysis
- Written by mark
SAP has introduced new versions of its business intelligence products for small and medium-sized enterprises. These are Crystal Server 2011 and version 4.0 of BusinessObjects Edge Business Intelligence. Crystal Server (once known as Crystal Reports Server) is designed for small companies and departments. The official announcement said Crystal Server customers in sales and market departments can utilize the bundled BusinessObjects Explorer “to navigate and drill down to granular levels and monitor how those campaigns are affecting return on investment (ROI) in real time.” The products are scheduled for general release in the third quarter.
Read more...INFOR REVS UP 12 PERCENT
- Thursday, 16 June 2011
- News and Analysis
- Written by mark
Infor reported revenue of $509.8 million for the fourth quarter ended May 31, an increase of 12 percent over $453.7 million a year ago. Infor? This is a company that has previously given only a general range in its annual revenue and this appears to be a company getting ready for a public offering, how soon it’s hard to tell. But there are few other reasons that I can think of as to why private companies start reporting numbers. It's been believed annual revenue is in the $2.5 billion range, but given the May year end, adjusting for seasonality would be a bit difficult.
Read more...INFOR STARTS NEW CHANNEL PROGRAM
- Friday, 10 June 2011
- News and Analysis
- Written by mark
Infor has established the Infor Partner Network which the company says offers competitive commissions, new performance bonuses, a training program and certification. There is also the normal Market Development Funding offer. According to a statement, Jeff Abbott, VP of global alliances and channels, wants to double Infor's channel revenue over the next three years and the network is a key part of that. Infor is also offering a three-tiered program with associate, silver and gold levels that depend on performance.
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MAS BASE GETTING SQL SERVER
- Friday, 10 June 2011
- News and Analysis
- Written by mark
Sage is making way for SQL Server in Version 4.5 of the MAS line, scheduled for release in the fourth quarter. The ability to utilize SQL Server was released in October, but only for new customers, according to Erik Kaas, senior director of product management. Now, the installed base can choose between the Microsoft database engine and Sage’s historic Providex. That’s one of the additions in the road map that Sage has laid out, with many of the changes encompassing technology and features that have started in the Accpac line.
MALWARE FOLLIES
- Friday, 10 June 2011
- News and Analysis
- Written by mark
Red flags should go up before anyone downloads freeware. But seeking to bypass the fee for WinZip, I downloaded something promising called JZip.Yes, it opens zipped files, but it also installs a toolbar and itself as the preferred search tool in place of Google (and I assume about anything else.) It took a few days for me to realize and the fact that it’s also immune the normal tools for changing home pages on Firefox and Internet Explorer and the Norton 360
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