Tectura has expanded its relationship with Cegid Group, which provides vertical software, to increase its offerings in the fashion and luxury retail industry in the United States and the Asia Pacific region. The companies will collaborate on deployments serving local and multi-national retailers Cegid Group is a good-size provider of enterprise management and vertical software and had $346 million in revenue for fiscal 2009. Read more...

Atlanta area-based Ibis, one of Microsoft’s truly award-winning VARs, has become a member of Partner Power, an international organization that offers Dynamics AX/NAV and CRM.It also markets more than 70 vertical packages. Ibis joins three other U.S. dealers that are part of Partner Power. The others are Sikich, based in Aurora, Ill.; Business Management International, based in New York City; and PKF Texas, based in Houston. Read more...

Although Intuit made a brief effort at explaining how its QuickBooks market share dropped during to 87 percent for the first quarter ended October 31 from 94 percent at the end of the fourth quarter, a lot more detail came out this week. Intuit says it wasn’t a matter of competitors (meaning essentially Peachtree) selling that much more. Intuit sold 30,000 less units than it did a year earlier. Read more...

Resellers for Sage North America have been talking much of the year about the upcoming release of Accpac 6.0, code name Orion, which appears to be one of the most strategic software moves coming from the organization over the next year or two.  Sage released a few details in response to a request for its comment on a NetSuite press releases, issued this week, about the number of Sage customers it had converted. (See related item, this issue). Read more...