News and Analysis (15659)
BLYTHE: SAGE REBRANDING A BAD IDEA
- Tuesday, 09 August 2011
- News and Analysis
- Written by mark
Steve Blythe, CEO of Blytheco, Sage's largest VAR and its perennial top award winner, thinks that the plan to rebrand Sage's product line with the same number system the vendor uses is a bad idea. I won't get into the appearance on August 5 and the disappearance the same day of a blog post called "Why the Sage Rebranding Idea is Just Plain Stupid."
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NETSUITE STOPS NEW SALES TO SMALLER BIZ
- Monday, 08 August 2011
- News and Analysis
- Written by mark
NetSuite is ignoring the girl that brought it to the online technology dance, the sub-$10,000-a-year customer. That was the message delivered today by Ron Gill, the CFO, in remarks at the Pacific Crest Technology Leadership Conference. "We simply stopped signing new business in that business. The small customers represent about 6 percent of revenue and 40 percent of customers.
AICPA'S CITP GETTING REAL
- Friday, 05 August 2011
- News and Analysis
- Written by mark
After many years in which members got their tech union card without the need for a test, the American Institute of CPAs is rolling out its exam for the Certified Information Technology Professional credential. Right now, there are 1,800 CITPs and other than their technology experience they have one thing in common – they didn't have to take a test to add the credential to their name and they never will since they are forever grandfathered.
Read more...BIG INTUIT INVESTOR SELLS
- Friday, 05 August 2011
- News and Analysis
- Written by mark
Having covered the way Relational Investors forced its way onto the Intuit board a couple of years ago, I lost track of the firm's holdings. Relational has been known as an expert in corporate governance. In the case of other companies, it has bought enough share to wind up on the board by threatening proxy fights and it has claimed some CEO heads; obviously not at Intuit.
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FISHBOWL, EFILECABINET ALLY
- Friday, 05 August 2011
- News and Analysis
- Written by mark
Fishbowl Inventory and eFileCabinet have signed an agreement to sell each other's products and are developing an integration that will be launched at Intuit's Summit 2011 conference in October. Fishbowl customers will be able to order features of the eFileCabinet document management system via through account representatives. The official announcement said the integration would cut down on the need to enter the same data in the two programs. And that seemed to cover everything of value in the integration.
Read more...QLIK TECHNOLOGIES DROPS TO LOSS
- Friday, 05 August 2011
- News and Analysis
- Written by mark
QLIK Technologies, which markets QlikView, lost $2.2 million for the second quarter ended June 30, a sharp swing from net income of $3.5 million in last year’s corresponding period. Revenue for the most recently period was $74 million, an increase of 45 percent from $51.1 million a year earlier.
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BYD TARGETS PRO SERVICES
- Friday, 05 August 2011
- News and Analysis
- Written by mark
With feature pak of Business ByDesign 3.0, SAP is making a big push for serving professional services. That's not an area the German software giant has been strong in, acknowledged Frank Iannotti, North American VP for- Business ByDesign. Previously that market was a much stronger arena for Lawson Software, PeopleSoft and Oracle.
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SAGE NAMES NEW SIMPLY CHIEF
- Friday, 05 August 2011
- News and Analysis
- Written by mark
Sage North America has named Nancy Harris, most recently chief operating officer at ESO Solutions, as VP and general manager of Sage Simply Accounting. Harris replaces Jamie Sutherland, who resigned the position in April, as mentioned elsewhere in this newsletter. Harris runs pretty much everything related to Simply, a low-end accounting system that is sold principally in Canada. Before the stint at ESO, she spent nearly a decade with Asure Software.
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DELTEK PICKS GOVCON HEAD
- Friday, 05 August 2011
- News and Analysis
- Written by mark
Deltek has hired Tom Mazich as the new EVP and GM of its GovCon business unit. And for many of our readers, his appointment is probably more important for the fact that he replaces Carolyn Parent, who was forced out earlier this year, along with Richard Lowrey.
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BMI WINS IMIS AWARD
- Friday, 05 August 2011
- News and Analysis
- Written by mark
InterDyn BMI was given two awards at the 13th annual Innovations conference of Advanced Solutions International in May. ASI, which markets the iMis product line, gave BMI the award for Vertical Innovation and also named the reseller to the 2010 Chairman’s Circle.
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