News and Analysis (15657)
SAGE SELLING ACT, SALESLOGIX, FUND
- Friday, 15 February 2013
- News and Analysis
- Written by mark
Sage has done more to simplify its product line in the last two years than it has in the previous 20. The company is selling seven products that it considers non-core. Those in the United States are SalesLogix, Act, and Sage NonProfit Solutions, the old MIP. The deal was for about $145 million, most of it cash. European products in the mix are C&I, ATL, Automotive and Aytos. This carries forward plans announced last year by chief executive Guy Berruyer to deal with his company's multitudinous product mix.
CLIENTS FIRST STARTS NON-ERP OPS
- Friday, 15 February 2013
- News and Analysis
- Written by mark
Based on the premise that there not a lot of new midmarket accounting clients to be had, Clients First Business Solutions is diversifying. It has established Cutting Edge Marketing with the purchase of a business formed by Bruce Ciarleglio, president of the new division. "When you look at ERP today, the market place overall is a struggle," says Clients First CEO Sheldon Kralstein. "It doesn’t matter if it’s Epicor, Sage or SAP. It’s an overall struggle."
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DYNAMICS EXCELLENCE AWARDS; A 'BIG' EVENT
- Thursday, 14 February 2013
- News and Analysis
- Written by mark
The Dynamics Excellence Awards, which are given to customers, are a big event, big in the sense that the resellers associated with the winners largely represent the large fry. In particular, four Hitachi Solutions America and two Edgewater Fullscope customers won awards. Tribridge, which has more than $100 million in revenue, had one winning client. Fullscope is somewhere in mid to upper $20-million-range and Hitachi mixes in its Dynamics business with a lot of higher end stuff, which makes it outsize for this market.
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ARMANINO NAMES CONSULTING PARTNERS
- Thursday, 14 February 2013
- News and Analysis
- Written by mark
Armanino has name two technology practice leaders as partners of the San Ramon, Calif.-based accounting firm. John Dunican, who leads the Adaptive Planning practice, and John Horner, who runs the QlikView business, got the promotions this month. Dunican, who joined Armanino in 2005, serves as consulting partner for CFO Advisory Services. Adaptive Planning is an online budgeting application.
BLACKBAUD SUBSCRIPTIONS SOAR
- Thursday, 14 February 2013
- News and Analysis
- Written by mark
Blackbaud subscriptions dramatically increased as a percentage of revenue for the company for 2012. The Charleston, S.C.-bard nonprofit software vendor continued to move away from reliance on license revenue as subscription income reached 40.5 percent of revenue for the fourth quarter ended December 31, up from 29.1 percent of the total in 2011's final reporting period. The year was tougher on the bottom line than in 2011 as Blackbaud worked to digest its purchase of Convio.
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SUGARCRM GETS QUICKBOOKS INTEGRATION
- Wednesday, 13 February 2013
- News and Analysis
- Written by mark
Epicom, part of SugarCRM's developer channel, has released its QuickBooks integration for SugarCRM. The product is available on the Intuit App Center. The integration from Austin, Texas-based Epicom is the first SugarCRM integration on the app center and is s compatible with multiple versions of QuickBooks including Pro, Premier and Online as well as all supported versions and licensed editions of SugarCRM and Sugar Community Edition.
ACUMATICA NABS ANOTHER M'SOFT EXEC
- Wednesday, 13 February 2013
- News and Analysis
- Written by mark
Online accounting software vendor Acumatica has reached into the Microsoft pool again. The company has hired Christian Lindberg as VP of Partner Solutions. The announcement was made by another Microsoft refugee, Stijn Hendrikse, Acumatica's chief marketing officer. Lindberg is responsible for the company's ISV channel.
SAGE ONE AT RETAIL; AND WHY?
- Monday, 11 February 2013
- News and Analysis
- Written by mark
During tax season, I usually browse the software shelves at Staples. This year, beneath the Sea of Green, the Intuit section of the software display which takes its name from the green QuickBooks boxes, were a couple of starter kits for Sage One, Sage's low-end online accounting package. The boxes were on the bottom shelf of a multiple-shelf display and if you could read the boxes without kneeling on the floor then you either have very good eyes (maybe very young) or opera glasses.
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CHANNEL MANAGER LEAVES KEYEDIN
- Monday, 11 February 2013
- News and Analysis
- Written by mark
Patrick Coulbourne, a former Epicor channel guy, has left the position of VP of channels and ecosystems for Keyedin Solutions. Coulbourne held the job at KeyedIn, from January 2012 through this month. He had been senior director of channels for Epicor from January 2010 until his departure there and had been one of the few Epicor channel people that in the last few years to make an effort to talk to the press about the Epicor channel without having to be pursued.
DYNAMICS MISSING REV GOALS?
- Monday, 11 February 2013
- News and Analysis
- Written by mark
A strong message came through in the last month that all is not well in Dynamics land. The specific bad news is the claim that the company fell short of its revenue goals in the first half of fiscal 2013, except that CRM Online bailed everything out. Officially, Dynamics revenue was up by 12 percent for the second quarter ended December 31. But there is a claim that Kirill Tatarinov, head of Microsoft Business Solutions, and the U.S Dynamics sales VP are delivering the bad news on meeting numbers in meetings with the channel aimed at getting things moving.
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