News and Analysis (15657)
AUSSIE QUICKEN NAME CHANGED
- Friday, 28 December 2012
- News and Analysis
- Written by mark
When is Quicken not Quicken? It is when it is the newly named Reckon Accounts, marketed by the company which has been Intuit’s partner in Australia. In March, Reckon told Intuit it would not renew the agreement via which it has sold Quicken and QuickBooks products in that country. That agreement expires on Feb. 14, 2014 and the company expects to save about $6.2 million in annual royalty payments to Intuit.
ALFAPEOPLE EXEC MOVES TO U.S.
- Thursday, 27 December 2012
- News and Analysis
- Written by mark
Per G. Mikkelsen, the founder and former general manager of Alfapeople U.K., has moved into a new position for the company in the Seattle region. Since October, Mikkelsen has served as worldwide director of business development from his new location in the Pacific Northwest.
CYMA 13 RELEASED
- Thursday, 27 December 2012
- News and Analysis
- Written by mark
Cyma has begun shipping Cyma 13, the latest release of its accounting and fund accounting software. The company says the version expands its presence in payroll process for general business, nonprofits and the area of payroll for service bureaus, PEOs, PSOs, fiscal agents and CPAs.
ACUMATICA GETS CPE APPROVAL
- Thursday, 27 December 2012
- News and Analysis
- Written by mark
Acumatica is now registered as a sponsor of continuing education by the National Association of State Boards of Accountancy. The cloud vendor is now listed on NASBA's National Registry of CPE sponsors. Mike Silver, director of partner enablement for Acumatica, noted that about 25 percent of the company's resellers are CPAs. The approval lets CPAs receive CPE credit by taking Acumatica product training programs that cover its financial, distribution CRM and project accounting suites.
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NETSUITE’S NELSON SELLS $16M STOCK
- Wednesday, 26 December 2012
- News and Analysis
- Written by mark
NetSuite CEO Zach Nelson had a very good December as made by far the most significant sales of stock he made for 2012, in fact the most in at least 18 months. In several lots, Nelson sold about $16 million in NetSuite shares, the overwhelming amount through automatic sales, a technique executives of publicly held companies utilize to avoid problems with insider trading.
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NEW DYNAMICS MARGINS PINCH AX VARS
- Friday, 21 December 2012
- News and Analysis
- Written by mark
With Microsoft moving Dynamics AX into its volume licensing program, the company has also trimmed margins for its resellers. The new rates went into effect on September 1 and are valid through June 30, the end of Microsoft’s fiscal year. The playbook emerging is not a big surprise – resellers need to move from simply reselling Microsoft software to adding their own IP and specialization and that message has been around for a few years.
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PRONTO SOFTWARE OPENS DALLAS OFFICE
- Friday, 21 December 2012
- News and Analysis
- Written by mark
Australian vendor Pronto Software has opened an office in Dallas, Texas. The Melbourne-based financial software company has had a channel recruitment effort in this country for about two years but at last count had signed only five VARs in the United States and Canada so this represents a significant acceleration of efforts here. The company also opened new branches in its home country in Perth and Adelaide, along with doubling space at its Melbourne Development Centre and establishing a new Sri Lanka Development Group based in Colombo, Sri Lanka.
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SAGE PUTS OUT YEAR-END UPDATES
- Friday, 21 December 2012
- News and Analysis
- Written by mark
Sage North America has been busy in December with the release of important product updates - most recently Sage 100 ERP 2013 with Sage 500 ERP 2013 and SalesLogix 8.0 coming earlier in the month. There is one notable feature, Visual Process Flows available in both accounting software packages. The company could have done a better job in pointing this out - in fact, it simply issued separate press releases.
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ADAPTIVE PLANNING NAMES CFO
- Thursday, 20 December 2012
- News and Analysis
- Written by mark
Adaptive Planning has named David Pefley as CFO. Pefley takes over from founder Robert Hull who has been cutting back the number of titles that he holds. That includes shedding the CEO position last fall when the company hired John Herr for that Job. Hull still holds the title of president. Pefley joins the maker of on line budgeting software after serving a year as a consultant.
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3CLOGIC INTEGRATES WITH SUGARCRM
- Thursday, 20 December 2012
- News and Analysis
- Written by mark
3CLogic, which offers cloud-based contact centers, has integrated its contact center software with SugarCRM. The integration, 3CSugarCRM, links the open source CRM product with inbound, outbound and blended contact center applications. The system supports voice, chat, text, and social media interactions across the contact center within SugarCRM and also provides PCI compliance by eliminating the need store customer credit card information in SugarCRM or in the 3CLogic contact center platform. The 3CLogic centers are hosted on Amazon Web Services.
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