This issue of Bob Scott's Insights was delayed by problems involving the computerused in producing the stories. We apologize for the delay and are happy to belatedly bring you the Sept. 6, 2013 issue.

With Intuit hosting a conference of influencers in Mountain View, Calif., and Xero holding its first conference in San Francisco, things got a bit testy on Twitter. We were calling it the Twitter Wars. But one theme struck me as I hit both gatherings. At the Intuit Summit event, one question on the second day was about attracting and keeping talent and having aging firms and events.

Infor has published the compensation rates for its top executives. While the contracts are not new, it is the first time they have been published since Infor become a public reporting company. Under an Oct. 9, 2010 agreement, CEO Charles Phillips got a $800,000 annual salary and can earn an annual bonus of up to $1.2 million and was granted 2 million shares initially.

A deal through which Intuit encouraged QuickBooks users to migrate to Intacct to meet growth needs has ended. The arrangement ended quietly in the last few months, according to Dan Wernikoff, VP and general manager of Intuit's Small Business Financial Solutions Division. The program, which began late in 2011, was designed to encourage QuickBooks users to move to Intacct's Internet-based accounting application when they had outgrown the Intuit product and the companies conducted joint marketing.