News and Analysis (15376)
ORACLE SEES FASTER CLOUD ADOPTION
- Thursday, 25 October 2018
- News and Analysis
- Written by mark
Mark Hurd, CEO of Oracle, says adoption of the cloud is going faster than anticipated. Hurd made his statements at his keynote at this week’s Oracle OpenWorld keynote, reiterating last year’s prediction 85 percent of production applications will be in the cloud by 2025.
SAGE SUMMIT TO RETURN?
- Thursday, 25 October 2018
- News and Analysis
- Written by mark
Sage abandoned the practice having one large annual conference this year. But the buzz in the channel is there will be two in 2019−East Coast and West Coast events. Whether this goes beyond talk coming from the channel is yet to be seen.
SAGE VET LAING JOINS IFS
- Thursday, 25 October 2018
- News and Analysis
- Written by mark
Alan Laing, who held key roles with Sage, has become managing director for the United Kingdom and Ireland for IFS. The job is a new position which reflects the importance IFS places in the region, Laing said in a prepared statement.
INTACCT PITCHES BUDGETING, PLANNING
- Wednesday, 24 October 2018
- News and Analysis
- Written by mark
The big push at this week’s Advantage conference is for Sage Intacct Budgeting and Planning. Introduced in limited release in September, the cloud-based product was given a big push in the eternal quest to convince businesses to use something better than an Excel spreadsheet for these functions.
DYNAMICS REVS TO HIT $2.5B
- Wednesday, 24 October 2018
- News and Analysis
- Written by mark
Dynamics revenue will reach $2.5 billion for the year ending June 30, Microsoft said this week. CEO Satya Nadella gave the forecast in this week’s webcast for earnings for the quarter ended September 30. Nadella said half of that will be from Dynamics 365.
RANDOM THOUGHTS: HALLOWEEN
- Friday, 19 October 2018
- News and Analysis
- Written by mark
The web is full of warnings about watching for the Spotted Lantern Fly, a serious pest, which infests trees, including Christmas tree species. But there's a silver lining: if nothing else, you will find if you string enough together, like popcorn, they make a lovely addition to holiday decorations.
SAP RAISES OUTLOOK AGAIN
- Friday, 19 October 2018
- News and Analysis
- Written by mark
With its third quarter in hand, SAP revised its financial forecast for 2018, the third during the current year. “We are raising the full year outlook in cloud total revenue and operating profits,” CEO Bill McDermott said in this week’s earnings webcast.
TAMLIN, NEXLAN GET HONORS
- Friday, 19 October 2018
- News and Analysis
- Written by mark
Tamlin Software Developers and NexLan have received awards from AccountMate. The two VARs were given the honors at the software company’s recent Synergy conference.
QBO ADVANCED ROLLS OUT
- Thursday, 18 October 2018
- News and Analysis
- Written by mark
Intuit has debuted QuickBooks Online Advanced after publicly discussing the product for some months. The new application, officially announced this week, supports up to 25 users and Intuit has talked about possibly increasing the user count.
YAYPAY LOSES KEY PLAYERS
- Thursday, 18 October 2018
- News and Analysis
- Written by mark
Four important employees have left accounts receivable vendor YayPay. There is no indication the departures are related. YayPay has been asked for comment but its media email address has not worked.
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