News and Analysis (15634)
CLOUD, INTACCT BOOST SAGE YEAR
- Wednesday, 22 November 2017
- News and Analysis
- Written by mark
Sage had a good year for the 12 months ended September 30, reporting 6-percent growth in organic revenue this week. That includes results from the spun off North American Payments business.
QBES SHOWS STRENGTH
- Tuesday, 21 November 2017
- News and Analysis
- Written by mark
Intuit has not said much about QuickBooks Enterprise Solutions in a long time. That changed this week when CEO Brad Smith gave it a strong endorsement during his company's earnings webcast for the first quarter ended October 31.
NEWSLETTER ON HOLD NEXT WEEK
- Friday, 17 November 2017
- News and Analysis
- Written by mark
There will be no Bob Scotts' Insights newsletter of Friday, November 24, as we honor the Thanksgiving holiday. News will continue to be published to this site as events dictate. Happy Thanksgiving.
RANDOM THOUGHTS: FRANKEN
- Friday, 17 November 2017
- News and Analysis
- Written by mark
I guess my level of paranoia was up as I was looking at an application and saw the tab choice. "Get Help?' "I don't need help," I yelled. "Why do they think I need help?" "Calm down," a friend said.
QB ASSISTANT LAUNCHED
- Friday, 17 November 2017
- News and Analysis
- Written by mark
Everybody has a digital assistant these days and Intuit has joined the parade with QuickBooks Assistant. Intuit says the tool utilizes chat to help users is available already for QB Self-Employed for iOS and Android.
XERO CEO SELLING 3 MILLION SHARES
- Friday, 17 November 2017
- News and Analysis
- Written by mark
Xero founder Rod Drury is preparing to sell 3 million shares at $31.50 (New Zealand). At current exchange rates, the deal is worth about $65 million. Xero announced the pending deal on the New Zealand Stock Exchange as a "likely successful purchase by institutional and professional investors".
INTUIT NAMES FIRM OF FUTURE
- Friday, 17 November 2017
- News and Analysis
- Written by mark
Intuit has named Burlington, Ont.-based AIS Solutions as the 2017 Global Firm of the Future. The selection was announced at the vendor's QuickBooks Connect conference underway this week.
DEALING WITH DYNAMICS CONFUSION
- Friday, 17 November 2017
- News and Analysis
- Written by mark
Asked if the Dynamics market is confused, RSM's Steve Ems gave a surprisingly frank answer. "I think it is a problem." For me, to have Ems, Principal and National Business Applications Leader, for RSM, a large reseller, willing to say this publicly underlines just how much confusion there is.
SHOULD (WILL) SAGE RENAME LINE?
- Thursday, 16 November 2017
- News and Analysis
- Written by mark
The headline probably seems like a dumb question, given all the rebranding Sage has done. However, it only refers to the company's strategic products, Live, Intacct and X-3.
QBOOKS ISV $15M FUND SET
- Thursday, 16 November 2017
- News and Analysis
- Written by mark
Lighter Capital, which provides funding to startup tech companies, has created the Lighter Capital Intuit Developer Fund. The announcement at QuickBooks Connect this week says the fund allocates $15 million of Lighter's credit facility to those develop applications for QuickBooks.
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