CRESTWOOD ACQUIRES VISION BUSINESS
Bob Scott reporting in his weekly Insights column. Crestwood Associates, a Mount Prospect, Ill.-based Dynamics and Acumatica reseller, has acquired Oak Park, Ill.-based Visions Business Solutions. VBS, which has 10 employees, carries Sage 500, Acumatica and Greentree ERP (a line I must admit to not having heard of). Crestwood was No. 47 on Bob Scott’s […]
FINANCIALFORCE OPENS CHICAGO OFFICE
Bob Scott reporting in his weekly Insights column. FinancialForce.com has opened an office in downtown Chicago, Ill., joining the San Francisco, Calif., company headquarters as its sites in the United States. The company expects there will be 40 employees in the new location by the end of 2015 and that it will become a major […]
NORTH AMERICA STRONG FOR UXC
Bob Scott reporting in his weekly Insights column. Results in North America from acquired operations exceeded the expectations of Australia based UXC. The company recently gave that description in the release of its first half ended June 30. Net income from continuing operations was about $5.5 million for the most recently ended half, an increase […]
TRIBRIDGE PICKS UP NETSUITE
Bob Scott reporting in his weekly Insights column. NetSuite has scored a major coup with the addition of Tribridge as a reseller. With $130 million in annual revenue Tribridge was No. 2 on Bob Scott’s Insights Top 100 VARs for 2015 and the No. 1, McGladrey, is also a NetSuite dealer. Tribridge, which carries all […]
SERVICE REVENUE LIFTS SWK
Bob Scott reporting in his weekly Insights column. Despite a 3-percent drop in product income, SilverSun Technologies reported a 12.9-percent increase in revenue for the second quarter ended June 30. Revenue for the parent of SWK Technologies was $5.9 million in the most recently ended quarter, compared to $5.3 million a year earlier. The top […]
NETSUITE REPORTS BRONTO RESULTS
Bob Scott reporting in his weekly Insights column. Bronto Software lost slightly less than $2 million on $37.2 million in revenue for the year ended December 31. The numbers were reported this week by NetSuite, which purchased the cloud-based commerce marketing company this year for about $200 million. It had a cumulative shareholder deficit of […]
BMI SPURS COLUMBUS GROWTH
Bob Scott reporting in his weekly Insights column. A couple of months ago, I had an involved conversation with someone from Columbus, the Danish Dynamics reseller, about the impact of Interdyn BMI on the company’s financials. This week’s webcast of results left no doubt. CEO Thomas Honoré pointed to areas in which Minneapolis-based BMI, purchased […]
Fujitsu, Red Hat partner on OpenStack-based private clouds
Fujitsu, Red Hat partner on OpenStack-based private clouds | Business Cloud News 2015 Written by Business Cloud News Fujitsu and Red Hat have jointly developed a dedicated solution to simplify the creation of OpenStack private clouds. The Primeflex is a converged compute and storage combines Fujitsu’s server technology with Red Hat OpenStack and Red Hat […]
ClearScale, Onstream partner on IoT intelligence cloud service
ClearScale, Onstream partner on IoT intelligence cloud service | Business Cloud News Written by Business Cloud News Device intelligence automation specialist Onstream is partnering with ClearScale to develop a cloud-based IoT service for smart devices. Onstream offers a connected device framework that aims to bring data processing closer to the smart devices and sensors generating […]
Western Computer Appoints New Dynamics AX Practice Manager
Microsoft Dynamics Partner Roundup: CRM global address verification; CRM survey add-on; Public sector award; AX practice hire – MSDynamicsWorld.com Western Computer Inc., a reseller of Microsoft Dynamics AX, Dynamics NAV and Dynamics CRM, has promoted Jerry Hart to Dynamics AX Practice Manager. Hart has spent over 25 years working with ERP solutions. Certified in Microsoft […]