Under the sea is taking on a new meaning with Microsoft’s announcement it is testing underwater datacenters. The software company is in the second phase of the program in which it is operating a prototype on the seafloor near Scotland’s Orkney Islands.
Max Q Technologies has launched Max Q Cannabis. The Danbury, Conn.-based company’s Tweet this week said it has introduced “the most modern, scalable, integrated cannabis manufacturing management solution”
So much for the Adaptive insights initial public offering. Workday is acquired the cloud-based budgeting and planning software company. Workday this week said it will pay $1.55 billion for Palo Alto, Calif.-based Adaptive, including $150 million in unvested equity issued to the target company’s employees.
The long-awaited (too long-awaited) Bob Scott's Top 100 VAR for 2018 will be published next week. Tune in here for the winners and thoughts on the industry. How many VARs will be purchased before then? Just kidding.
Rootstock Software has hired Per Norling as general manager, international. Norling will oversee the company’s operations in EMEA and APAC and along sales, customer success and support, and recruiting channel implementation partners.
Xero CFO Sankar Narayan will leave the New Zealand-based company in December, the New Zealand-based cloud software company said this week. Taking his place on October 1 will be chief accounting...
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...
Xero CFO Sankar Narayan will leave the New Zealand-based company in December, the New Zealand-based cloud software company said this week. Taking his place on October 1 will be chief accounting...
Epicor has hired two global VPs and by my read, means they have replaced two others. Andy Coussins was named SVP and head of international sales while Jason Taylor was...
Syspro has launched the PartnerUP Program, a new channel program in the United States. The company says the program is part of a global drive to grow its footprint.
Alison Forsythe has joined Honeywell as GM of enterprise software solutions. She served as GM of Macola from 2013 and under her the company initiated a new channel program and...
Stephen Scholl, Infor's president of global field operations, has left the company as of July 11. That follows the May 4 departure of Duncan Angove, president of product and support...
Max Q Technologies has launched Max Q Cannabis. The Danbury, Conn.-based company’s Tweet this week said it has introduced “the most modern, scalable, integrated cannabis manufacturing management solution”
FinancialForce.com has released its spring release, which make significant enhancements to its suite, including Billing Central. The suite features a new user interface offering greater configuration capabilities and utilizing Salesforce Lightning...
Tableau Software has introduced Tableau Prep, a data preparation product, which the company says features a direct visual experience for data preparation for customers. Prep is built around three coordinated...
Priority Software, whose products include the AccountEdge line, has released Priority V. 18.2. The new version for Mac and Windows is described as featuring enhanced system openness and mobile capabilities...
Manufacturing software vendor QAD has introduced Sage Miguel 1, the latest phase of its cloud-based Channel Islands architecture. The company said it focused on enhancements to sales, services, requisitions and...
I was with a friend at a motorcycle shop. All of a sudden, one motorcycle roared to life and pushed into the sales person. He put it back in place...
A few observations about the World Cup: The Polish team set record for fewest total vowels in the names of its entire roster of players. FIFA officials are also considering some...
Analysts are guessing the source of President Trump’s series of executive pardons. He apparently has always misunderstood the phrase “pardon me” … It was nice to see locals provide a home...
Samsonite CEO Ramesh Tainwala has resigned amid accusations he padded his resume. He has also been accused of roughly handling luggage and taking up too much space in the overhead compartment...
Humor is a function of shared culture. Imagine what the cavemen joked about when the standup comic, Shecky Ugh, made his appearance around the camp fire. “How about that wheel?
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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