Avalara has issued a major update to its Trustfile tax return software. The company claims the new version can cut the time needed to prepare sales tax returns to as little as five minutes. With a cloud version made available this year, the latest edition provides businesses with fully populated signature-ready tax return forms based on uploads of their sales and tax collection data in .CSV format.

Infor posted net income for the second straight quarter the software giant said this week. It will need that kind of sustained performance to go public. And the company had a 22-percent rise in product income for the first quarter ended July 31, compared to a 2-percent hike in product updates and support fee revenue for the same period. How many financial product publishers see their product revenue growth exceed maintenance?