Deltek Open Plan 3.5, a scheduling and resource management application, has come to market. Herndon, Va.-based Deltek says the new release improves on the product's critical path management scheduling. "This latest update enhances the user experience, delivers more capabilities, and improves integration between Open Plan and other systems," Namita Dhallan, EVP of product strategy and engineering, said in a prepared statement.

UXC Eclipse, based in Australia, has agreed to sell the Ax|is Fashion software from K3 Software Solutions. Headquartered in the United Kingdom, K3 specializes in fashion and apparel applications based on Dynamics products. Ax|is Fashion, built on Dynamics for Retail, is described as "a concept-to-consumer solution that is literally made to measure, ready to wear.

Epicor Software has introduced Epicor Retail Store Point of Sale in the Cloud. The company this month promised the product would significantly reduce deployments from what it said are often one-to-two year ordeals. The system utilizes Amazon Web Services Infrastructure as a Service platform moving all business logic to the cloud. Epicor also says the application enables retailers to "future proof" [a phrase I hope doesn't catch on POS systems to scale and support new countries/regions and new POS devices, along with integrating with new technologies and new partners.

Alex Solomon, co-founder of New York-based Net@Work, says sales of Sage X3 are growing at 30 percent to 40 percent. Despite that, Solomon says that in the Sage lineup X3 "has the weakest leadership. It's mindboggling. You have such a strategic product, and that's where you are investing all your money and your leadership is the weakest they have ever seen." No matter how serious their complaints resellers usually do not tee off about vendor issues publicly.