Vertex has hired Bob Holt as channel sales manager. Holt joined the sales tax software company in August at a time when it is ramping up activity in the midmarket.
Avalara has certified 34 companies whose products meet the sales-and-use tax company’s requirements for integration. The company says there are now more than 600 pre-built integrations with a wide variety of business applications.
Avalara lost $17.8 million for the second quarter ended June 30, 39 percent more than the $15.4 million in red ink prior year. Revenue for the most recently ended quarter was $63.7 million, rising 25 percent from $50.9 million a year ago.
Sage has named Ron McMurtie as chief marketing officer, after he served as an interim CMO since November. Before that, he was EVP of customer marketing for the software company from November 2016 through September 2017.
Compensation for named executives for Infor dropped back to relatively normal levels for the year ended April 30, 2018. Compensation for 2017 was inflated by bonuses handed out for their work on the major investment in Infor by Koch Industries.
AcctTwo has been named Sage Intacct Partner of the Year for 2008, the fifth consecutive year it has won the award. The award to the Houston, Texas-based firm, headed by...
2018 BSI Top 100 VARS Bob Scott's Insights would like to congratulate all the 2018 BSI Top 100 VARS winners. This year's selection of Bob Scott's Top 100 VARs comes at a...
The speculation over when the market will move to the cloud is over. Resistance has faded and however many holdouts there are, financial cloud software is mainstream. Read more to...
The last year has been one of change—the cloud has moved from being something everyone talked about to something most resellers are doing something about. It is also a market...
Moving to the cloud represents a challenge for mid-market accounting software resellers. Some make it more challenging by making the switch from marketing desktop applications to relying on subscription sales...
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...
AcctTwo has been named Sage Intacct Partner of the Year for 2008, the fifth consecutive year it has won the award. The award to the Houston, Texas-based firm, headed by...
Intuit has established a support program for “our most valued customers” called the QuickBooks Priority Circle for its higher-end products. Priority Circle support is available only to users of QuickBooks Online...
SAP has named an external ethics advisory panel for artificial intelligence. The Germany-based company said recently it was the first European company to do so. But other companies have been...
Infor says its work with systems integrators is ramping up. The software company did not provide many details as it reported financial results for the first quarter ended July 31.
Wendy Gorrie, a partner and general manager, has left Baass Business Solutions. Gorrie was with the Thornhill, Ont.-based reselling company from December 2014 by its acquisition of Plus Computer Solutions.
Fishbowl has added business intelligence capabilities to its Fishbowl Manufacturing and Fishbowl Warehouse inventory management software. The company said recently the upgrade enhances reporting queries.
Sage has introduced Sage Intacct Budgeting and Planning, a product stemming from the company’s acquisition of Budgeta this year. It is in limited released and expected to be generally available...
Major updates have been made to Zoho One, a suit of cloud applications from Pleasanton, Calif.-based Zoho. The company said Zoho AI will soon combine information from multiple apps for user...
Viewpoint has launched ViewpointOne, a cloud-based construction management system for contractors. The Portland, Ore-based company said this week the new product combines its financial system with its Team and Field...
In a new release, KeyedIn Projects now supports a range of project management frameworks from traditional waterfall and agile to hybrid and custom approaches. In addition, KeyedIn this week said...
A friend commented after I said I had started practicing my musical instrument after a long time away, that it “Must be just like riding a bike.” “I don’t know,”...
Saw an array of coffee at a store that had a blend called “Dakota Roast”. Ah yes, I remember my youth in the coffee fields of the Dakota? Oh you...
In the latest reboot of Batman under development, the caped crusader is tazed by police after law enforcement received complaints about a suspicious character in a costume was hanging around...
There have been rumors the Russians have penetrated the American power network. I was getting suspicious when the return address on my electric bill was “V. Putin, The Kremlin, Moscow”.
Just finished playing Bubble Witch Saga level 91—it looks like I have a misspent second childhood under way. … All those who had France playing Croatia in the World Cup...
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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