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ALERE HITS THE CLOUD

Friday, 19 November 2010
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alereIn the last three months, TIW, which markets the Alere accounting and manufacturing line, has gone to the Web with Alere Cloud.  And one of the prime elements appealing to end users and resellers is the product's customization capabilities, says marketing director Roy Hoffman. Read more...
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CYMA LINKS WITH PIRACLE

Friday, 19 November 2010
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Accounting software developer Cyma Systems has hooked up with Piracle to make the latter's system the authorized Secure Payment Processing platform for Cyma. Piracle products include Create-A-Check, RapidRemit eXpress and Secure Printing Service users. Cyma has been busier than usual in 2010. It hooked up with Red Gear Technology, parent to TaxWorks, to provide its accounting software in that company's product line. During the summer, it also said Cyma was repositioning itself as a payroll and HR application supplier.

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ONLINE GROWTH OUTSTRIPS QB DESKTOP

Friday, 19 November 2010
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Brad Smithsales improved for Intuit's first quarter ended October 30, but that came as online subscriptions grew by 45.6 while the number of desktop units sold dropped by 20.3 percent.  Intuit sold 217,000 QuickBook Online Subscriptions for the quarter just ended, compared to 149,000 a year earlier. Meanwhile, desktop unit sales dropped to 281,000 from 353,000. Read more...
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TREY PROFITS ON, WELL.

Friday, 19 November 2010
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Trey Resources, parent of Sage reseller, SWK Technologies, turned in one of those profitable quarters that gives me the opportunity do some interesting financial analysis.  The company made $730,785 for the third quarter ended September 30, compared to a loss of $325,502 a year earlier. Read more...
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LAHEY LANDS AT JOB FIRM

Friday, 19 November 2010
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David LaheyDavid Lahey, an accounting software veteran, had taken a position as VP of Customer Success at Jobvite, a start-up which has social recruiting features.  Lahey was most recently EVP of sales and marketing at SpeedTax, the sales-and-use software tax company, but left abruptly after nine months there. Read more...
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DYNAMICS GP R2 PENDING

Friday, 19 November 2010
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Didn't this used to be called a pre-announcement?  That's what Microsoft has done in publicizing the fact that it will issue Dynamics GP 2010 R2 in March, although I'm not sure what to call these kind of statements when the press release also includes information about the companies that have been successfully using the product. Read more...
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NEXT ISSUE: DECEMBER 3

Friday, 19 November 2010
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Happy Thanksgiving. There will be no newsletter next Friday, Black Friday, November 26. The regular publication schedule will resume on December 3.
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AVALARA TAPS EPICOR VET

Thursday, 11 November 2010
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Sales-and-use-tax vendor Avalara has named Kevin Riegelsberger, best known in the accounting profession from his years at Epicor, as its president and chief operating officer. Riegelsberger was most recently CEO of Estorian, which provides applications for mainframe storage applications. Read More A founder of Platinum Software, now known as Epicor, Riegelsberger held several executive-level positions at that financial software company. Read more...
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TRIBRIDGE TALKS ABOUT GROWTH PLANS

Friday, 12 November 2010
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Tribridge, Microsoft's worldwide partner of the year for 2010, has signaled its plans to acquire other resellers with capital it has secured through equity funding from LLR Partners.  The press release announcing the investment doesn't mention the amount raised, apparently the $24 million that was the subject of an SEC filing in September. Read more...
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PLUMBLINE GOES INTO DYNAMICS AX

Friday, 12 November 2010
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Dynamics AX logoPlumbline Solutions, originally formed as the outsourced developer of Dynamics SL applications, has been shifting its direction. Havng previously added work on Dynamics GP, it has begun providing services for Dynamics AX. The announcement of the AX expansion came in a press release in August, although I didn’t find it in what was then a very bland website and which has now become a (comparatively) more colorful,  appealing site.

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