Microsoft Dynamics has added I.B.I.S. Inc. and three other partners to its Global ISV program, which offers special partner agreements between select solution providers and Microsoft that help software makers with industry expertise tailor products to meet specific customer needs.

Whether you like PDFs or not, many practitioners, and even consultants, are always looking for better ways to work with them, and more are turning to the Save2PDF app that allows users to create PDFs right on their iPads.

Sage developer and reseller SWK Technologies Inc. has brought Sam Hunter on board in the newly created position of executive vice president, customer experience.

Intuit is reorganizing its Accounting Professionals Division as part of a larger corporate reorganization that includes the divestiture of the Intuit Financial Services division and a plan to sell the Intuit Health Group.

NetSuite partner ERP Guru has hired David Farr as channel manager to head up its newly created partner program.

Intacct has added new resource scheduling capabilities and other enhancements to Intacct Project Accounting designed to automate both project accounting and project delivery within the financial system of record.

There are numerous apps on the market for working with PDF files, but practitioners are increasingly checking out PDF Expert which allows users to read, share, and edit PDF and other types of documents – all from your iPad.

The top 10 percent of American Institute of CPAs member firms have annual revenues of over $3,000,000. What will these firms look like in 10 years? How will they grow? How much will they grow? Will the majority of their growth be through mergers, organic growth or lateral growth?

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Legal matters, mega alliances, and yet another cloud bookkeeping product on the market were the big items on tap this week and I'm here to tell you what I think about it all.

A new small business-focused cloud bookkeeping product has been launched by Cheqbook, a Hawaii-based company that offers color-coded alerts and categorization for all entries.

Newly released resource forecasting tools are now available in the latest version of CCHProSystem fx Practice Management that are designed to make it possible for firms to plan their client work in weekly increments and for partners and billing managers to see client work planned for the upcoming week or for weeks in advance.

Oracle, NetSuite and Deloitte have formed a strategic alliance focused on plans to deliver integrated human capital management(HCM) and ERP cloud services for midsized customers.

Open Systems has released a purchase order routings and approvals application for its Traverse accounting and business software, which provides organizations with full control over their purchasing and approvals process.

Epicor Software Corporation is seeing some advancement in its lawsuit against Alternative Technology Solutions as the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California entered a nationwide injunction against Alternative.

SmartVault is now integrated with DigiBookx, a cloud-based automated accounting product that uses extraction technology to capture financial data from any type of file and upload to an accounting package.

To navigate around the increasingly mobile office, which is often spent in the car, practitioners are taking to the Scout GPS navigation travel app for Android and Apple devices.

Former Oracle chief financial officer Jeff Epstein has joined the board of directors at cloud-accounting and financial management product maker Intacct.