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CRG RELEASES PROJECT ACCOUNTING CUBES

The Corporate Renaissance Group has released Project Accounting Cubes for Dynamics GP Project Accounting. The company said the cubes enable users to complete detailed reporting and analytics within Project Accounting in a drag-and-drop environment. The cubes work with Excel and other analytical packages. CRG also introduced a Universal Data Connector to enable users to import data from any external source into Cost Allocator. Read more...

NETSUITE HAIRBALLS ON PARADE? NOT!

NetSuite LogoThere’s a profound sense of disappointment that after a promising press release issued on March 25, NetSuite has yet to publish the names of the winners of its first-annual Hairball Awards. Thirty companies were nominated for the honor, named for their ability to untangle the hairball of code in corporations, and the winners were to be announced at last week’s SuiteCloud conference in California. Read more...

WALKER LEAVING SAGE

There shouldn’t be too many people in the Sage world who don’t know that Sage Group announced earlier this week that Paul Walker will be leaving after 26 years with the company and 16 years as chief executive. That would seem to signal a change in direction. What change? I don’t think any of us know the secrets of Newcastle-Upon-Tyne, home of the mother ship for Sage North America. His departure, which seems contingent on finding a replacement, came after last week’s speculation by CitiGroup analysts that the healthcare group is ripe for being sold off. I continue to read their remarks as applying to healthcare, not the whole company. Read more...

ADVENTURES IN PC-LAND

My HP notebook developed a serious flicker and some nice color bars, along with a spreading discoloration. It looks like it got hit, except that all I remember doing is turning it slightly on the Amtrak train seat tray to use it. After digging out the support telephone number for HP support, I recited the product serial number, my home address, family history and elementary school grade average to verify my identify to be told it was a mother board problem and the warranty and/or support contract expired six days ago. “But we didn’t get the computer until June. How could it have expired?” Read more...

ACUMATICA DEBUTS 1.4

Acumatica, which makes Internet-based and on-premise financial applications, has released Acumatica 1.4. Among the new features are import and export tools for integrating Acumatica with external applications and data in either deployment method along with new logistics management features that include advanced drop shipment, barcode printing and landed cost functionality. Read more...

EXACT NEW HQ A SIGN OF OPTIMISM?

Exact logoMaybe I’m reading too much into this. But I’d like to think when a company moves into a new headquarters facility that it is expressing confidence in its future. Anyway, Exact has moved into a new HQ building after 25 years in the same spot in Delft, the Netherlands, into the Technopolis Innovation Park in the same city. The press release didn’t describe the size of the building, but said that for the 500 employees in Delft the new facility offers “a flexible, open work environment, in terms of both time and space.” Read more...

MICROSOFT ROLLS OUT GP 2010, SURPRISE

It would have been hard not to miss the build up and there was only a bit of letdown when the press release issued under NDA before it was made public turned out to be for Dynamics GP 2010. Considering the number of launch events resellers have scheduled for the new version, there weren’t too many people that didn’t know this product was hitting the market soon—general release is May 1. Errol Schoenfish, director of product management, said there are three themes with GP 2010. Read more...

COLUMBUS IT GETS CFO; NEEDS TRANSLATOR

Columbus IT, the international Dynamics VAR based in Denmark, has announced that  Hans Henrik Thrane starts as CFO on July 1. The translator is my idea. The press release announcing his appointment got me thinking that some of the Web site is not done by a Native English speaker when it stated that Thrane started “as at 1st July 2010.”  The management bios are where work is needed. One executive “holds a master in Accounting and Finance”, another  "has the business degree in informatics” …  and a third is “currently pursuing MBA from Indian School of Business Management.” Read more...

ADVENTURES IN PC-LAND

My display on my Hewlett-Packard notebook developed a serious flicker and some nice color bars, along with a spreading discoloration. It looks like it got hit, except that all I remember doing is turning it slightly on the Amtrak train seat tray to use it. After digging out the support telephone number for HP support, I recited the product serial number, my home address, family history and elementary school grade average to verify my identify to be told it was a motherboard problem and the warranty expired six days ago. Read more...

SPEEDTAX AND BAASS HARMONIZE

Speedtax logoSpeedTax, which makes online sales-and-use tax applications, is working with Canadian Accpac reseller BAASS Business Solutions to deliver an application that will meet the needs of companies affected by Canada’s Harmonized Sales Tax legislation. HST replaces a structure of a federal goods and services tax and provincial sales taxes with one sales tax. While it was already in effect in four provinces, HST takes effect on July 1 in Ontario and British Columbia.  Read more...

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