NetSuite has released OneWorld 2011 with one highlight being automated intercompany management that the company says “accelerates and increases the efficiency and rigor of the close process.” (I like to pretend I understand what all this stuff means.) It expands support for international taxation and audit reporting and provides new advanced inventory costing capabilities, Standard Costing functionality. Tax reporting has been expanded to more than 40 companies and support for Dutch and French Canadian is offered. There is also new vendor bill approval routing and real-time multidimensional analysis through Pivot analytics. CRM has been enhanced with Product Affinity Analytics, designed to provide insights into correlations between products typically purchased together and new sales activity management. Read more...

Occupy Wall Street has influenced other protest movements. There’s the Occupy Sesame Street movement in which those camping out are insisting on equal rights for animated characters and Occupy Elm Street in which Freddie Krueger and other  protesters demand an end to meaningless horror movie sequels. Read more...

Unit4, which markets the Coda and Agresso lines, said its license revenue for the third quarter ending September 30 was up by more than 20 percent in Scandinavia, North America and Asia.  Read more...