Eighteen months ago, Sage opened its first Customer Business Center in Atlanta. It also opened a center in Dublin, Ireland. When the centers were first announced, the company said more would open "to revolutionize the way it supports customers around the world."
My thinking was that after Microsoft moved its Dynamics products to the cloud the behemoth would roll over competitors. That may have been a bit premature. Some admittedly brief conversations with resellers yielded a picture that Dynamics 365 Enterprise Edition is doing really well while Dynamics 365 Business Edition, not so well.
Dynamics revenue increased by 10 percent in Microsoft's third quarter ended March 31. The company said that was 11 percent in constant currency. In its SEC filing recently, Microsoft did not provide actual revenue figures. Nor did it publish the kind of figures that allowed us to calculate actual revenue for the second quarter.
ComputerWork NFP was given one of AccuFund's 2016 Partner Leadership awards at a recent reseller meeting. The Ontario, Calif.-based organization was cited as the overall volume sales leader and volume leader in government sales and both total unit and add-on sales.
Syspro has released Espresso Xpress Cart, a mobile sales ordering app for distributors and manufacturers. Paulo de Matos, chief product officer of the software company, said the design stems from the consumerization of IT.
Syspro plans to show a web version of Syspro 8 in the fourth quarter. The company will offer a dual interface so companies can choose to deploy a Web client...
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...
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...
Syspro plans to show a web version of Syspro 8 in the fourth quarter. The company will offer a dual interface so companies can choose to deploy a Web client...
The theme of "We Love the Channel" came through loud and clear at SAP's recent Partner Summit. It was announced both at keynotes and through interviews during that conference and...
Syspro has reached agreements that with Lynq and Prophix Software to extend the capabilities of Syspro's software. Linq's Smart Manager Manufacturing Execution System provides a compete manufacturing lifecycle, including planning...
Eighteen months ago, Sage opened its first Customer Business Center in Atlanta. It also opened a center in Dublin, Ireland. When the centers were first announced, the company said more...
My thinking was that after Microsoft moved its Dynamics products to the cloud the behemoth would roll over competitors. That may have been a bit premature. Some admittedly brief conversations...
Syspro has released Espresso Xpress Cart, a mobile sales ordering app for distributors and manufacturers. Paulo de Matos, chief product officer of the software company, said the design stems from...
RRetail Pro International says its Retail Pro Link has been certified for use with SAP Business One. The Link Pro utilizes DI-API and ECM communications to move retail data between...
Epicor Software has released iScala, which adds a new user interface to the cloud-based product. The application is designed for small- to medium-midmarket companies and subsidiaries of larger multi-nationals in...
The Copley Consulting Group, an Infor VAR based in East Greenwich, R.I., has released Expenseline, an expense management application designed for Infor CloudSuite Industrial (SyteLine) users. The application enables businesses...
Tax software vendor Avalara has updated its CertCapture and CertExpress applications handling exemption certificates. A wide variety of sellers utilize CertCapture to collect, validate, renew, and store buyers' exemption certificates...
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...
We finally figured out what President Trump's problem was with German Chancellor Angela Merkel. Trump, who said Merkel had ruined Germany, thought the Merkel was the currency in use in...
A Michelin star was accidentally awarded to a burger joint, "Le Bouche a Oreille" in Bourges, France. Diners who were attracted by the designation were somewhat suspicious of some dishes...
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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