Socius, a Dynamics, Syspro and Sage reseller, has opened its fifteenth location with an office in Southfield, Mich. The company said the move was made primarily to support its Dynamics practice. It had already been operating in Michigan with a number of clients there and with virtual team members working in the state. A member of the InterDyn group, Socius is also one of three Microsoft Master Vars. The reseller ranked No. 12 on Bob Scott's Top 100 VAR list with $19.5 million in revenue and 90 employees. The company handles all four Dynamics accounting applications and says it is one of very few VARs that has received Gold certification in all four products, Dynamics AX, GP, NAV and SL

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Saying it is looking for the next killer financial application, Intuit has opened the application programming interface to several products. These are Quicken, QuickBooks, Mint.com and FinanceWorks.