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AICPA RELEASES TOP SOMETHING LIST
- Friday, 04 June 2010
- News and Analysis
- Written by mark
The AICPA’s newly released Top Technology Initiatives reminded me a lot of the Big Ten sports conference. A few years ago, the Big Ten admitted Penn State University to the league, but decided that even with 11 members it would keep the Big Ten name. The first of 10 issues on the AICPA list was the following: “Security of data, code & communications/data security & document retention/security threats.”
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NETSUITE HOPES BBD ISN’T BAD
- Thursday, 03 June 2010
- News and Analysis
- Written by mark
NetSuite has one of the most interesting ways of welcoming a competitor to a market in terms of its discussion of SAP’s introduction of BusinessByDesign, a SaaS product. NetSuite welcomes SAP to the SaaS market because having a big player join should stimulate interest in Internet-based products, finance SVP Ron Gill said at the Cowen & Co. conference this week. But his company is more worried that SAP will discourage users from considering SaaS.
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SORTING OUT BLACKBAUD's PARTNER PAGE
- Thursday, 03 June 2010
- News and Analysis
- Written by mark
Since Blackbaud has been testing out the reseller channel again for The Financial Edge, I ventured into the Blackbaud Connect Partner Network page on its Web site. I found a handful of organizations carrying the nonprofit accounting package and another handful that continue to sell the Kintera FundWare application. But the most interesting thing there reminds me of last week’s discussion of Microsoft’s Pinpoint, another Web-based partner search tool.
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INFOR DEVOURS BRIDGELOGIX
- Thursday, 03 June 2010
- News and Analysis
- Written by mark
Infor has hit the acquisition trail again with the purchase of Bridgelogix, an Infor solution partner that makes barcode data collection systems. Bridgelogix technology integrates with some Infor ERP systems. The most notable thing about the announcement was that Infor used the word “solution” three times in a 53-word paragraph. Bridgelogix, an Infor solution partner, makes barcode data collection solutions, and the acquisition will allow for close alignment of Bridgelogix’s complementary solutions ….
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F9 READIES V5 FOR MAS 90/200
- Thursday, 03 June 2010
- News and Analysis
- Written by mark
With Microsoft replacing FRx with Management Reporter, F9, owned by Infor, has been spinning out press releases at faster clip than it has for a long time. That includes the announcement that F9 Version 5 for Sage MAS 90/200 will be released on July 1 and F9 is recruiting customers for a beta program that starts on June 15. Version 5 features are designed to make use of Excel 2007.
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EXPLAINING THE DSD NETWORK
- Friday, 28 May 2010
- News and Analysis
- Written by mark
After explaining what I thought I knew about DSD Business Systems M&A program in the last newsletter, I got an email from owner Doug Deane clarifying how it works. The network is not a buying group, as I printed. DSD purchases the resellers' customers with the local dealers keeping their business name as a dba of DSD Business Systems. Read more...
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SAGE IRONING OUT PARTNER PORTAL
- Friday, 28 May 2010
- News and Analysis
- Written by mark
Sage North America is replacing its antiquated CRM system and rolling out a Partner Portal which is designed to be a single point of contact for the channel. It’s part of the effort to take the disparate systems accumulated by acquisition and standardize on one system. It’s an important initiative, as indicated when top management went into a closed session at the Insights conference to discuss the bumps and problems that go along with a project like this.
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ACCUFUND HONORS TOP VARS
- Friday, 28 May 2010
- News and Analysis
- Written by mark
AccuFund, which makes nonprofit accounting software, named its top VARs at its annual meeting a few weeks ago. It handed out its Partner Leadership awards to the following: ComputerWorks NFP Solutions of San Dimas, Calif., as volume leader overall and in non-profit sales; TSG Systems with offices in Valparaiso, Ind., and Red Wood City, Calif., volume leader in government sales; and EMK of Export, Pa., as volume leader in total new sites. Also given awards were NWBS Consulting of Anchorage, Alaska, marketing leader; and Watkins, Ward and Stafford of Europa, Miss., as Rookie of the Year.
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- Friday, 28 May 2010
- News and Analysis
- Written by mark
When I looked for information about the Intuit Solution Provider Program (within the section on QuickBooks Enterprise Solutions), it struck me how Intuit says customers can buy QBES. Under a prominent box, labeled “Next Steps” is a hyperlink telling visitors to “Buy It Online.” Below that, another box provides a down-menu via which QBES be compared to packages including Dynamics GP, and the Sage MAS line and Peachtree.
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TRYING MICROSOFT PINPOINT
- Friday, 28 May 2010
- News and Analysis
- Written by mark
Pinpoint was available on the Microsoft Web site some months ago in a beta form. Now that the search mechanism has been featured on the company’s homepage (it went off today), it’s obviously been launched, although I can’t say exactly when. Pinpoint, a tool for finding different organizations, including resellers, developers, can be searched by a variety of criteria, including company and software.
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