CRM vendor SugarCRM has hired Melissa Sargeant as its new chief marketing officer. She replaced company co-founder Clint Oram, who now serves as chief strategy officer and head of corporate development.
The long-awaited VAR Stars 2018 will be announced in December. VAR Stars is a listing of 100 quality mid-market resellers who are chosen without regard for revenue. Stay tuned for posting and for information about timing of newsletters and news postings.
HighJump Ship, a shipping application for small parcel and less-than-truckload shipments has been enhanced to support shipments originating outside of the U.S. and Canada. Minneapolis, Minn.-based HighJump said this month the software supports more than 200 additional national and regional parcel carriers in more than 70 countries.
Things you don’t want to hear as you have just launched from the cliff: “Are you sure we fixed this guy’s bungee cord?”… Watching the World Series and thinking how nice it is to see the boys of summer playing their game in appropriate weather.
Net@Work has acquired another member of the Net@Work Partner Alliance Program, Management Advisory Services. MAS is a long-time Sage 100 and BusinessWorks reseller. That follows last month’s purchase of Inventory Management Solutions, which was also a member of the program.
A lot of attention was focused on the meal President Trump provided for the national champion Clemson football team. With the government shutdown affecting the cooking staff, Trump provided a banquet...
Report: 2018 VAR Stars Building on the Cloud Overall, the questions of what technology will be used given the accelerating pace of cloud adopting are being answered. The cloud has won...
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...
Sage has reached an agreement to sell its payroll outsourcing business based in the United States. Sage Payroll Solutions will be sold to iSolved HCM, which is owned by investment...
The year has kicked off with what seems like a flood of investments. In the last week, business has been booming for software companies raising funds.
QuickBase has signed an agreement to receive a majority investment by Vista Equity Partners. Current investor Welsh, Carson, Anderson & Stowe will retain what was called “a significant investment in the...
Sales tax software company TaxJar, which serves eCommerce businesses and developers, has raised $60 million in equity funding. It will invest in hiring and also in TaxJar Plus, which is designed...
Sage says revenue for North American rose 10.4 percent to about $199 million for the third quarter ended December 31. The statistics were presented this week as part of the...
HighJump brought its vision of the future in supply chain technology to the National Retail Federation Big Show this week. That includes HighJump Now which last month achieved Powered by...
IFS has made IFS Field Service Management 6 generally available. Released this week, the new edition has enhanced capabilities for reverse logistics, spare parts management and depot repair, and increased...
SAP has introduced SAP S/4HANA for financial products subledger. The subledger application runs on a multi-GAAP accounting engine that provides enhanced calculation and accounting capabilities for payments, business events and estimated...
AccuFund has introduced version 6.02 of the AccuFund Accounting Suite, which is available on-premise and in the cloud. Among the enhancements described this week is AccuBot which can automate several...
HighJump Ship, a shipping application for small parcel and less-than-truckload shipments has been enhanced to support shipments originating outside of the U.S. and Canada. Minneapolis, Minn.-based HighJump said this month the...
A lot of attention was focused on the meal President Trump provided for the national champion Clemson football team. With the government shutdown affecting the cooking staff, Trump provided a banquet...
You know you have a dull existence when your life flashes before your eyes and you fall asleep. ... I am always amused by the TV broadcast, "Dick Clark New...
Anheuser-Busch investing in the development of pot-infused drinks. There is talk of names such as Bud Acapulco Gold, Bud Blue Dream and Bud Purple Kush.
People with abusive bosses are more likely to treat direct reports ethically and with respect, according to a recent study. I have a couple of people I’d like to thank...
Gender reveal parties have become the rage for soon-to-be parents. We have had gender reveal for a long time. It’s just it usually involved a guy in a raincoat and...
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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