It isn't hard to see more evidence of the realignment of resellers who have been selling midmarket financial packages. Last week's newsletter talked about the realignment in the Microsoft channel, which included five major resellers putting together a distribution group.  This week's edition has information about the decision of CBIZ to get out of the market and, the split of the former Faye Pollack & Associates into two organizations, one selling infrastructure and networking products, the other pursuing the accounting software dream. Read more...

FPA Technology Services (formerly known as Faye Pollack & Associates) has been named Partner Innovator of the Year by Level Platforms. The company said the award recognizes Craig Pollack of FPA Technology Services for advancing the innovative use of Level Platforms Managed Workplace. The Rookie of the Year award was given to Aaron Donaldson of RSM McGladrey. Read more...

Acclivity, which took over the operations of MYOB in North America, has introduced AccountEdge for Windows 2010. This is one of the last steps away from the use of the product and company names of MYOB, which started years ago in Rockaway, N.J., but whose focus is now in countries like Australia.  Read more...

The push to get attendees to Microsoft Convergence at the end of April is on. Perhaps I haven't paid attention to this in past years, but it does seem like there's more effort going into putting notices on resellers' home pages and into the Dynamics community of Microsoft's Web site than in prior years. Is that because the economy has the host making an extra effort or Microsoft is also worried that not everybody is eager to rush to Atlanta?

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