News and Analysis (15673)
ROSE TWITTER FANS TOP 20K
- Friday, 25 February 2011
- News and Analysis
- Written by mark
Rose Business Solutions, a Dynamics VAR headquartered in San Diego, is pretty serious about Twitter – it topped 20,000 followers in January and now has 22,906 followers. “We have a process down and it works. About 11 percent of the traffic on our sites comes from Twitter. For myGPcloud this has equated to customer adds.
SAGE BUYS MERCHANT PORTFOLIO
- Friday, 25 February 2011
- News and Analysis
- Written by mark
Sage Payment Solutions has acquired what it described as a “small portfolio of merchant customers processing on third-party platforms from Heartland Payment Systems.” The acquisition was the fifth of its type in the last 12 months. There was no definition of what “small” meant in terms of the number of customers or the type of customers and terms were not disclosed. However, the announcement said the unit is focusing on “strategic growth through acquisitions of targeted portfolios.”
Read more...FISHBOWL PUSHING UP MARKET?
- Friday, 25 February 2011
- News and Analysis
- Written by mark
Fishbowl Inventory is positioning the company’s inventory control application in what looks like a conscious effort to push a bit up-market suggesting that it is being pulled up market by its users. Noting its product’s widespread use with QuickBooks, the company this week issued a press release stating “But many people don’t realize Fishbowl Inventory is growing in popularity as a standalone asset tracking solution among divisions and departments of large organizations.”
Read more...SAP INTROS BI VERTICALS
- Friday, 25 February 2011
- News and Analysis
- Written by mark
SAP continued on a path it started last fall with the launch of vertically focused analytic applications with the launch of six next entries in the Business Objects line. The six new applications are IP Rights Analysis, Upstream Operations Performance Analysis, Staff Productivity Management for Healthcare, Healthcare Practitioner Spend Analysis and Reporting Planning for Public Sector, raising the number of applications in this effort to 16.
SAGE MAKING MASTERBUILDER PUSH?
- Friday, 25 February 2011
- News and Analysis
- Written by mark
Two press releases might not be a lot to base this theory on. But Sage this week issued two press release about happy MasterBuilder customers and that’s twice the amount it’s issued in the period starting March 5, 2009, which is where the current press release archive starts. Read more...
MICROSOFT DUMPING ORACLE DATABASE
- Friday, 25 February 2011
- News and Analysis
- Written by mark
Tucked into the announcement of a connector between Dynamics CRM and Microsoft Dynamics AX and a Data Migration Assistant for Microsoft Dynamics AX was the flat out statement that the Dynamics AX 2012 release will exclusively use SQL Server. Hence the migration assistant, which is billed as using a wizard for each step of the process “making it quick, easy and cost-effective to use.” Read more...
EXACT PUSHES ALLIANCE MIGRATION
- Friday, 25 February 2011
- News and Analysis
- Written by mark
Exact is encouraging businesses that utilizes its Alliance manufacturing software to move to its Max application. The migration pitch is on the company’s website and poises these questions for Alliance users: “Has your business outgrown Alliance? Are you struggling to effectively schedule and track production?
Read more...ACCOUNTMATE HANDS OUT AWARDS
- Friday, 25 February 2011
- News and Analysis
- Written by mark
Since AccountMate isn’t having a conference this year – the company is holding a series of regional roundtables – the software vendor has released its list of award winners for Jan. 1, 2010 through Jan. 31, 2011. Not surprisingly, it looks very similar to the list of award winners announced at its conference in October. Read more...
NETSUITE OPENS DOWN UNDER
- Friday, 25 February 2011
- News and Analysis
- Written by mark
NetSuite has opened an office Melbourne, Australia, which the company says will serve the market in Victoria and South Australia. Operations will be headed by NetSuite sales executive Rick Lanman. The company says it has 500 customers for its web-based products in Australia.
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UNIT 4 REPORTS DOUBLE-DIGIT GROWTH
- Friday, 25 February 2011
- News and Analysis
- Written by mark
Unit 4, which markets the Coda and Agresso software lines, reported that it had double-digit increases in revenue and income for both the year and fourth quarter ended December 31. The company, which does not use resellers, said that revenue for the most recently ended quarter was about $170.5 million, up 20.7 percent when measure in euros. EBITDA rose to about $42 million, an 11.7 percent increase over the corresponding period a year earlier. Read more...
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