Exact has made its Synergy application, which offers CRM, human resources and workflow functions, available for the iPhone and IPad. The free application is available on the App Store and the company says it provides the same functionality that a user has on Synergy ASP or Exact Synergy Enterprise. CEO Martijn Janmaat said support for the Android platform will be available in the near future, but did not give a more precise time frame.

Sage North America says that attendance for Summit, its concurrent user and partner conference, has moved past 4,000 attendees. The conference is being held July 10-15 at the Gaylord National, just downstream from the nation’s capital. The breakdown that was pushed out to Twitter showed 1,200 partners,1,850 customers, 500 exhibitors and 500 Sage employees. That beats a prediction of 3,000 that had been used on the page promoting the show to exhibitors. The show replaces the Insights partner conference and the separate Summit user conference that was not held last year. Having the shows the same week at the same site has many advantages.

Serenic Corp., which markets the Navigator NFP accounting line, turned in a fourth-quarter that redeemed its performance for the year ended Feb. 28. The company earned $409,923 for the fourth quarter, compared to a loss of $154,260 a year earlier. (All figures in Canadian dollars). Revenue for the final period was $3.1 million, up 26.4 percent from $2.4 million for the prior year’s corresponding period. The company ended fiscal 2011 with $82,806 in net income, down 72.1 percent from $297,689 for fiscal 2010. Read more...

The steps needed to get reselling prospects trained and ready to sell has turned into a bottle neck for SAP's recruitment of VARs for its web-based Business ByDesign. “We have had to slow down recruitment because our enablement was backing up,” says Kevin Gilroy, the North American SAP SVP who is running channel development. However, Gilroy says the company is ahead of schedule in its plan to get “one thousand feet on the street.”