Infor's report for the year ended April 30 was a bit unusual and probably more interesting the actual numbers. At the beginning of its earning conference call, it was stated CEO Charles Phillips was not available. That's not something that happens often on a fiscal year presentation.
FinancialForce has decided to turn its human capital management business over to ADP. The decision was announced at the cloud software company's CommunityLive conference this week. CEO Tod Nielsen, on the job for six months, said the company needs to focus on what it can do best.
Solver, whose products include data analytics software, has launched Solver Brazil. The new organization will work with resellers in the area to sell and implement the company's the CPM tools that are part of BI360.
Chief data officer Tony Stewart is taking over leadership of Xero's small business products. The change was made as Xero announced Duncan Ritchie chief product and platform officer, his taking a sabbatical starting this month. Ritchie, who joined the New Zealand-based cloud company six years ago, will evaluated new roles within Xero later this year. The company said Ritchie led the recently completed platform migration to Amazon Web Services.
The Internet of Things has gotten hot, judging from the number of demonstrations and sessions at recent conferences, including Epicor's Insights and SAP's Sapphire. At the latter conference, a demonstration was made using a power drill to make a hole in a piece of concrete.
There was to be high-level food at the conference I was to attend. "How do you feel about foie gras and caviar? Do they have pigs in a blanket?" I...
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...
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...
An SAP Leonardo Center has opened in Paris, France. The center is the first in a series to be established around the world to provide showcases for a variety of...
Infor's report for the year ended April 30 was a bit unusual and probably more interesting the actual numbers. At the beginning of its earning conference call, it was stated...
At his company's recent Community Live conference, Tod Nielsen, CEO of FinancialForce, said Microsoft had "massive chaos in field ops". The chance to pin him down on his keynote remarks...
FinancialForce made its recent Community Live conference a bit of a coming out party. It was the first time the cloud software company invited analysts and press to its event...
Avalara has added 22 certified partner integrations to its long list of links to other applications to more than 550. The certifications means Avalara has approved the links to the...
Infor has introduced Infor Visual 9.0, which is designed for order-driven manufacturing companies. Markets using the product include aerospace and defense; automotive; high tech and electronics; industrial manufacturing; machinery and...
Xero has released a new check style editor that enables users to select from multiple print layouts, including 3-up checks. Users can also print MICR encoded checks of blank stock...
Solver has introduced BI360 Cloud, the latest version of its CPM suite, which is built on Microsoft's Azure platform and Excel-powered. The company describes the product as sporting "a business...
Gravity Software has released a purchase order module. Gravity, written on the Dynamics 365 platform. The module allows for a separate receiving function to ensure the items were received in...
Adaptive Insights has introduced a visual analytics offer with interactive dashboards which the company says, "enable unprecedented self-service analytics access for finance and business users across the organization." The dashboards...
There was to be high-level food at the conference I was to attend. "How do you feel about foie gras and caviar? Do they have pigs in a blanket?" I...
The fiftieth anniversary of the release of "The Beatles" groundbreaking album, Sergeant Pepper's Lonely Heart Club Band" is being updated with the release of Sergeant Pepper's Assisted Living Band". It...
There's a sign on a street in Boonton, N.J., the next town over, warning "Heavy Pedestrian Crossing." Hey, why should they get special treatment? ... Just back from the SAP...
A Montana State University professor sued Wal-Mart for libel alleging an employee at the Bozeman store listed his occupation on a fishing license as a "toilet cleaner." I don't know...
The local supermarket has a line of natural cat food. It appears to be very authentic—I found Fresh-killed Bird and Squashed Rat. There's also a natural dog food brand led...
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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