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CRM ONLINE EVENT ON TUESDAY?

Friday, 01 October 2010
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Microsoft has a big Dynamics announcement on Tuesday  and while there's nothing official about it yet, the betting is that it is about Dynamics CRM Online, which is not the biggest secret around.   The product, which will be named Dynamics 2011, was put into beta early in September.  Read more...
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LATEST PICKS IN RESELLER DERBY

Friday, 01 October 2010
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The signup announcements continue to trickle out to the reseller community about traditional VARs that are willing to step into the clouds.  Last week, Boyer & Associates, a Minneapolis-based dealer, signed on with Acumatica, the Solomon-like Internet and on-premise application vendor. Read more...
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DELTEK BUYS INPUT

Friday, 01 October 2010
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deltek logoDeltek has acquired database and market information company Input for $60 million in cash.  Deltek had nearly 200 employees and revenue of $26.2 million for 2009 which makes the purchase price more than two times trailing revenue, which isn't bad.   Deltek has been busy this year, having acquired the European project-based software company Maconomy for $72.7 million, which was not as good a multiple as Maconomy had 2009 million revenue of about $41 million.  Read more...
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JMT VP MOVED TO NFOCUS

Friday, 01 October 2010
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For whatever reason yesterday, I had a "whatever happened to" moment about Tom Thornton, who joined nonprofit reseller JMT Consulting two years ago as VP of sales.  A search of LinkedIn showed the answer is that in July he became VP of community solutions at nFocus Software.  Read more...
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EXACT SIGNS RESELLERS

Friday, 01 October 2010
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Exact logoBased on the headline, this looked promising.  But the problem is Exact, which markets the Macola, Globe and Synergy lines, is talking about the fact that it signed 27 of its current resellers to a new reselling program.  It had 30 so it's hard to be that impressed.  These companies can now carry the label "Certified Partner."  Read more...
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SAP AND SAGE?

Friday, 01 October 2010
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It's been a while since one of these (fill in the blank) wants to acquire Sage news items. This time, SAP is the rumored suitor. I have no idea if this rumor is any more valid than the series we've seen over the years, but there it is. Sometimes I think every time some investors think their Sage stock is a little too low, they start a rumor that someone is going to buy Sage. Read more...
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LAHEY DEPARTS SPEEDTAX

Friday, 01 October 2010
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David LaheyDavid Lahey, who seemed to be assuming an important position at SpeedTax, has left to pursue other interests after serving as VP of sales and marketing since early February. Lahey had been very visible until his sudden departure, and now is listed in that kind of faux title that LinkedIn forces you into as "Accomplished Software Executive with Comprehensive Channel and Global Experience."

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BLYTHECO BUYS ANOTHER CRM VAR

Friday, 01 October 2010
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Sage reseller Blytheco is on a mini-consolidation kick in the CRM market and just announced its second acquisition of a Sage CRM reseller in two weeks. Last week, Blytheco said it had acquired SFA Technology, a Denver-based SalesLogix reseller. Read more...
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HIGHJUMP ACQUIRING TRUE COMMERCE

Friday, 01 October 2010
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HighJump, which markets a variety of software packages, is acquiring True Commerce, which has been a steady exhibitor at Microsoft and Sage conferences. The True Commerce product line includes EDI translation and data mappin Read more...

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SPEEDTAX DOES NETSUITE

Friday, 01 October 2010
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SpeedTax, the Laguna Hills, Calif.-based sales-and-use tax vendor, has produced an integration of its application with the NetSuite platform. The integration was accomplished by use of NetSuite’s SuiteCloud development platform. The integration between the two Internet-based packages, well, you know the drill, lets NetSuite users handle the variety of sales-and-use tax functions that SpeedTax does for all the other accounting packages for which it has integrations.
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