Sales tax vendor Avalara has raised $96 million in new capital. Fifty million of that will be used to fund growth and acquisitions while the remainder was used to repurchase...
Sales tax vendor Avalara has raised $96 million in new capital. Fifty million of that will be used to fund growth and acquisitions while the remainder was used to repurchase shares from early investors. The latest round of financing brings the total raised by the Seattle, Wash.-based company to $300 million.
Danny Estrada, who has spearheaded [email protected]'s CRM program, has left the New York City-based reseller. Estrada had been with [email protected] since October 2005 and served as its CRM Practice Director. His LinkedIn profile shows that he has founded a company named E Squared, based in Red Bank, N.J. His profile explains the reason for his departure this way:
Richard Duffy, who was an Acumatica VP for 18 months, has started a new business in Sydney, Australia. Duffy's LinkedIn profile shows that this month he became CEO of SMB Solutions, which is designed to provide marketing consulting services for those involved with products such as SAP Business One, Acumatica and MYOB Advanced.
Diane Haines, who one reseller described a quarterbacking a lot of Sage 100 efforts, has left Sage. Haines has joined Open Sesame, based in the Portland, Ore., area, as VP of marketing. Haines LinkedIn profile shows Open Sesame provides on-demand elearning courses for Global 2000 companies. She was with Sage for six years as a VP of marketing.
I have invented a new kind of computing for those who aren't particularly adept at technology. It's called "Clod-based Computing". .. One of the things I have always wanted to do is place "No Exit" signs on all the exits from a roundabout. I would then wait and take bets on the maximum number of revolutions for drivers too timid to disobey the signs. ... Tonight, I believe, is the Harvest Moon. I think our society needs to update such outdated concepts as that and the Hunter's Moon.
Annual Report: 2016 BSI Top 100 VARs The web has reduced the need for large channels; the difference between reseller and ISV is blurring and perhaps most important, the younger generations...
The selection of mid-market accounting software resellers for Bob Scott’s VAR Stars rests on one basic principle: quality, not revenue, as the deciding factor in picking the 100 businesses that...
2015 BSI Top 100 VARS The last few years have seemed to be a story of survival. But the revenue figures reported by this year’s Top 100 VARs tell a much...
This was somewhat the year of the cloud when it comes to the 2014 VAR Stars. A majority of them carry cloud products, a bare majority. But for those selected...
Moving to the Cloud: Aging channel leadership and the usual vagaries of vendors in the reselling channel. This year’s BSI’s Top 100 VARs comes as technology and people are in...
Sales tax vendor Avalara has raised $96 million in new capital. Fifty million of that will be used to fund growth and acquisitions while the remainder was used to repurchase...
Danny Estrada, who has spearheaded [email protected]'s CRM program, has left the New York City-based reseller. Estrada had been with [email protected] since October 2005 and served as its CRM Practice Director...
Richard Duffy, who was an Acumatica VP for 18 months, has started a new business in Sydney, Australia. Duffy's LinkedIn profile shows that this month he became CEO of SMB...
Diane Haines, who one reseller described a quarterbacking a lot of Sage 100 efforts, has left Sage. Haines has joined Open Sesame, based in the Portland, Ore., area, as VP...
I have invented a new kind of computing for those who aren't particularly adept at technology. It's called "Clod-based Computing". .. One of the things I have always wanted to...
Exact has introduced Smart Shop Floor with Exact for Manufacturing. Existing customers of Exact for Manufacturing, a cloud-based program, can receive Smart Shop Floor for free for one users. Additional...
AccuFund has introduced the Position Control Module, an add-on to the Payroll Module in the AccuFund Accounting Suite. The new application tracks employees by position and ascertains which positions are...
Macola 10.4 has become available from Exact. The changes to the manufacturing software package include enhancements to workflow management tools via configurable workflow rules. Work can be viewed or remarked...
Avalara has extended its support for products from Infor to three of the financial software company's applications. Connectors are available for Infor LN, M3 and Distribution SX.e. That brings the...
HighJump has introduced a supply chain analytics module, HighJump Pulse. The module is described as providingan enterprise-level view of warehouse and distribution operations to enable process improvements.
There has been a lot of press about the tendency of batteries in Samsung's devices to catch on fire. My Galaxy Note burst into flames but fortunately I was able...
A 91-year old woman at the swimming pool is a frequent opponent of mine in the game, Rummikub. For some reason, last week, she looked at me and spouted, "You're...
The guy next door is our neighborhood's angry-old man. A couple of nights ago, he sat in his car in front of his house for hours setting off and silencing...
At the QuickChek Festival of Ballooning this week it was discovered that surprisingly the Chris Christie balloon did not need to be inflated. Festival organizers said it carried a naturally...
Now that he has endorsed Hilary Clinton as the Democratic nominee for president, Sen. Bernie Sanders will appear in a series of TV commercials in which he is asked, "How...
Bob Scott has been informing and entertaining the mid-market financial software community with his email newsletters for 10 years. And he has been covering this market through print publications for 18 years, first as technology editor of Accounting Today and then as the Editor of Accounting Technology from 1997 through 2009. He has covered the traditional tax and accounting profession during the same time and continues to address that as executive editor of the Progressive Accountant.
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