SAP is increasingly pitching its often-maligned Business ByDesign cloud application into two-tier installations. The product is aimed at divisions at companies that run the SAP Business Suite at the enterprise level. It's a strategy also being followed by competitor NetSuite which pitches its SaaS application as something that companies with SAP at the core can deploy at divisions. However, SAP argues that It is far easier to integrate two SAP-developed products than one from SAP and one from an outsider.

Intuit has reached an agreement with Revel Systems, which will develop QuickBooks Point of Sale powered by Revel Systems. The application, which will be available next year, is an iPad POS application that works with QuickBooks Online. Intuit has an online wait list for the product. This reminded me that a couple of years ago, I asked an Intuit spokesperson whether traditional desktop hardware/software POS systems--sold by companies such as Intuit--would become obsolete because of the use of mobile devices.

BCS ProSoft has announced plans to expand into the Houston, Texas, and Denver, Colo., markets by the end of next year. The plan was outlined by CEO Clark Haley in discussing the organization of a staffing organization, BCS ProStaff. Currently operating in San Antonio, Texas, BCS carries Sage 100 and 500, Deltek Vision and NetSuite.  The new unit will provide staff with skills with a large variety of mid-market accounting packages in the San Antonio and central Texas market.

An increase in subscription revenue of 56.3 for the nine months ended September 30, drove growth at the Prodware Group, a Dynamics reseller based in France. The company says that means subscription revenue hit 7.7 percent of revenue, compared to 5.1 percent in last year's corresponding period. Prodware operates in France, Great Britain, Spain, Germany and Israel.