Intuit plans to develop a CRM package for the tid-market, which goes along with a push in the space with QuickBooks Online Advanced. The broad outlines of the plan was given by CEO Sasan Goodarzi during this week’s webcast for earnings for the first quarter ended October 30.

Epicor has updated two of its major products with new releases of Epicor Kinetic, its manufacturing package, and Prophet 21 for distributors Kinetic, the former Epicor ERP, and Prophet 21, both cloud-based, both offer a new Epicor Cloud Enterprise Services package for their target market.  The company cited the use of Epicor Application Studio to provide an update to user experiences across its platform.

Kinetic o features integration with Epicor CPQ, the renamed KBMAx.  CPQ is also available with the eCommerce package. Epicor Commerce Connect. Kinetic connects to the SecturaFAB estimating and quoting tool for metal fabrication manufacturers and to Amazon and eBay through Epicor EDI, a B2Bintegration module. Epicor said the modular design makes it easy to install components independently and personalize Prophet 21 and that the flow of information between the browser and the server has been optimized with the new user experience.