Concur, which markets travel-and-expense management applications, is rebooting its reseller program. The company has some legacy relationships, but really has not relied heavily on channel recruitment and sales. That is changing, according to Bob Lewis, the company’s senior director of business development. “VARs are now finding us,” says Lewis, who said the interest has been a bit surprising. However, he said Concur is getting approached by Microsoft and NetSuite VARs about adding the online offerings.

Adaptive Planning, which markets online budgeting and forecasting applications, has named NetSuite as Worldwide Partner of the Year. And I would have to assume that given the description of those things factoring into the award - bookings, margin, innovative approaches, marketing, customer loyalty and collaboration – that the level of sales of what is sold as NetSuite Budgeting has a lot to do with that.

Nonprofit vendor AccuFund is readying its AccuFund Anywhere cloud product for a launch sometime in March or April. The system is designed to have a great deal of familiarity for users, according to President Peter Stam. The Cloud product “uses all the same reports we use in the windows product.” The system will also use the SQL Anywhere database, also used in the desktop product.