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CCH UPGRADES VAR PROGRAM

cch logoCCH has launched a new Partner Program for preferred VARs that handle its CorpSystem sales-and-use tax software. The company says there are "more options from the entire portfolio of CCH indirect tax solutions". But the real news may be this is the first we have heard from the CCH channel in about two years. Read more...

NEW LAWSON RELEASE OUT

lawsonlogoLawson Software has introduced Infor10 Lawson SE, which the company termed a marriage of Infor and Lawson technology and products. Infor acquired Lawson four months ago and Infor pledged to keep Lawson going and to develop and integrate its product line. The latest version offers interfaces for users of either organization’s product line.

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NEW AVATAX INTROED.

avalara logoSales-and-use tax vendor Avalara has released its latest version of AvaTax. The new edition gives customers access to the Geo-Location Engine, which determines the exact location within a sales tax jurisdiction.  To determine applicable taxes for a location, the tool utilizes latitude and longitude coordinates passed into a mapping engine that includes more than 11,000 taxing jurisdictions. The technology also supports cases where an address is not available, such as construction sites, or where an address has not yet been established.

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ACCOUNTMATE TARGETS SAGE VARS

David Dierke, AccountMatePicturing Sage as flip flopping in the market, AccountMate has been targeting the competitor’s reseller base via an email campaign. “We got a gigantic response,” says CEO David Dierke. "We had triple the number than we had seen in the past." AccountMate has sold itself to prospective channel partners as a company in which VARs can reach executives.

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SAGE GIVES HOUILLON STOCK

Pascal HouillonPascal Houillon, chief executive of Sage North America, has received a grant of 369,181 shares of Sage stock. At the current market price, the shares have a value of about $1.7 million. However, it takes a few years for all to vest. Houillon got the grant as a member of the executive committee. Since he is not a Sage Group director. Houillon’s salary does not become public. Other news of interest, but not terribly important to most of us, was that Lloyd’s Bank Group filed a noticed that its stock holdings have increased and are now about 6 percent of Sage’s shares.

 

 

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CEO: BYD STRONGEST IN GERMANY

William McDermott SAP

This is not going to come as a big surprise. But SAP Co-CEO William McDermott says that Germany is the strongest market for Business ByDesign. In his appearance at the Barclays Capital 2011 Global Technology Conference this week, he made comments that I have not heard previously about the cloud application and its strength in the company's home country.

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SUGARCRM ON GROWTH PATH

 larry augustinWith new offices open in Raleigh, N.C., and Cambridge, England, SugarCRM is on a growth spurt that will see its work force double in a year. The company issued press releases announcing the new offices while Larry Augustin, CEO of the open source vendor, outlined plans recently at the Credit Suisse 2011 Technology Conference

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MICROSOFT OUTSOURCES TO HITACHI IN FARGO

Hitachi ConsultingMicrosoft has picked Hitachi Consulting, which also happens to be a Dynamics reseller, to supplement its Microsoft Business Solutions IT team located in Fargo, N.D. Hitachi will establish a technical development center in Fargo, the birthplace of Great Plains. Read more...

INVESTOR WANTS CDC SOFTWARE CEO OUSTED

Peter Yip, CDC SoftwareThe strange tale of CDC Software continues as an investment firm  has demanded the board of directors fire CEO Peter Yip.  Meanwhile, NASDAQ is taking action to delist the company's stock and last month Deloitte & Touche resigned as outside auditor. Wynnefield Capital Funds, which owns 12.3 percent of the public float of CDC Software's Class A Common Stock, took uncommonly strange language over the board's decision to place Yip on medical leave instead of firing him after he was found to have lied under oath. Whew!

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SAGE TO RESELL HR CLOUD APPLICATION

Clifton Sage North America is getting to the cloud in the human resource market by reselling another company's software. Sage has signed a reseller agreement via which it will sell CornerStone OnDemand's SaaS product "in conjunction with its Sage Employer Solutions line of HR management tools." The product will start getting to market through this deal early next year but getting it into the Sage channel is likely to be a gradual process.

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