DOLLAR WHACKS QLIK RESULTS
Bob Scott reporting in his weekly Insights column. The stronger American dollar took a $19.9-million toll on the revenue of business analytics vendor Qlik Technologies for the second quarter ended June 30. The company lost slightly more than $13 million for the most recently ended period, a rise from a loss of $10.2 million a […]
SIKICH ABSORBS ALTICO ADVISORS
Bob Scott reporting in his weekly Insights column. Accounting firm Sikich has acquired Altico Advisors, a midmarket reseller based in Marlborough, Mass. With $45 million in revenue, Naperville, Ill.-based Sikich was No. 9 on Bob Scott’s Insights Top 100 VARs for 2015. Altico was No. 59 with $7.9 million in revenue. The acquired firm carried […]
WIPFLI PIONEERS DYNAMICS U.S. BPO
Bob Scott reporting in his weekly Insights column. CPA firm Wipfli says it has become the first U.S. channel organization to use Microsoft Dynamics for business process outsourcing in the United States. The Wipfli press release says that the BPO Platform was already offered in Europe. The firm says it has provided outsourced accounting services […]
Women Find Tech Career Opportunities in the Microsoft Channel, Part 1
Women Find Tech Career Opportunities in the Microsoft Channel, Part 1 – MSDynamicsWorld.com by Karen Kroll, Contributing Writer published August 3, 2015 The challenges facing women in technical professions continue to make headlines. Women account for just 12 percent of engineers, while their ranks within computing have fallen from 35 percent in 1990 to 26 […]
Cobalt Iterates on Dynamics CRM Snapshot with Deep Cloning, Rollbacks, Backups
Cobalt Iterates on Dynamics CRM Snapshot with Deep Cloning, Rollbacks, Backups – MSDynamicsWorld.com by Dann Anthony Maurno, Assistant Editor published August 5, 2015 Microsoft Dynamics CRM partner and app developer Cobalt has been rapidly iterating on its Dynamics CRM Snapshot offering, a deep clone, backup, and rollback tool for Dynamics CRM and Dynamics CRM Online. […]
Customers Expect Support Across Ever More Channels: New Microsoft Parature Report
Customers Expect Support Across Ever More Channels: New Microsoft Parature Report – MSDynamicsWorld.com by Dann Anthony Maurno, Assistant Editor published August 5, 2015 Fully seven in 10 US consumers have stopped doing business with a brand due to a poor customer service experience. And a poor experience can be, simply, not the experience the consumer […]
PROJECT DELAYS HURT EDGEWATER EARNINGS
Bob Scott reporting in his weekly Insights column. Edgewater Technology, which owns Dynamics Fullscope, saw a sharp drop in earnings for the second quarter ended June 30 as customers postponed the start of projects. Edgewater reported net income of $494,000 for the most recently ended period, down 72.3 percent from $1.7 million The bottom line […]
UXC SIGNS BIG MONEY DEALS
Bob Scott reporting in his weekly Insights column. UXC, the Australian company that owns reseller UXC Eclipse, says it has signed a series of contracts for deals exceeding about $73.1 million ($100M Australian). That announcement followed a June 29 trading update in which it said net profit after tax for the year ended June 30 […]
NET@WORK ACQUIRES AXIS
Bob Scott reporting in his weekly Insights column. Net@Work has purchased St. Louis, Mo.-based Axis Integrated Solutions, a Sage 300 and SageCRM reseller. Axis CEO and founder Kelly Hummel has been named Sage 300 practice director for New York-based Net@Work. With the addition of the Axis sites, Net@Work has 16 locations. Axis, founded in 2005, […]
SAGE ERP HITTING THE CLOUD
Bob Scott reporting in his weekly Insights column. Sage is moving major financial software products to the cloud. The SaaS version of X3 was made available this week, coinciding with the Sage Summit Conference. It is scheduled to be introduced into the United Kingdom during the summer and globally this year and next. Sage 100c […]