Coffee chain Starbucks ranked at the top of restaurant vendors listed by employees on expense reports, with Marriott dominating in the hotel category, Delta in airline category, and Avis for car rentals.

Cloud-based travel and expense management service Concur officially unveiled the Concur App Center, a new marketplace that provides Concur clients and their employees with access to Web and mobile applications that are integrated with Concur.

American Express OPEN, the small business payment card issuer division of Amex, has launched ReceiptMatch, a new feature that matches images of Business Card receipts to transactions on online credit card statements.

Online accounting software maker Xero has partnered with online payroll product ZenPayroll, aiming at small businesses to integrate ZenPayroll data directly with Xero.

Sage North America today released Sage 50 Accounting 2014–U.S. Edition, which boasts enhancements to accounts receivable, streamlined accounts payable processes, and the addition of a business intelligence tool.

Non-profit financial reporting and accounting software maker AccuFund Inc. named six firms to receive its Partner Leadership Award for sales and marketing success in 2012.

Cloud-based accounts receivable platform maker TermSync has released TermSync Scorecard, an interactive dashboard designed for financial executives to take a deeper look into the accounts receivables department.

Alternative Technology Solutions Inc. has issued a formal response regarding the copyright infringement lawsuit Epicor filed against Alternative last month as well as a counterclaim, both of which deny any wrongdoing on the part of the firm.

SmartVault has enhanced its QuickBooks Online integration process from the initial account provisioning all the way through attaching a document to an entry.

Adaptive Planning has released an integrated cloud-based product for comprehensive close-and-disclose financial consolidations and analysis, as well as enhancements to its Adaptive Planning and Adaptive Discovery applications.

According to a new IFS-sponsored study, executives at middle market to large industrial companies are less interested in implementing ERP software through subscription-based SaaS than on-premises implementations or exploring a private cloud delivery system.

This week's medicine will go down with a bit more than a spoonful of Sugar, with SugarCRM being in the news quite a bit as well as some other various musings that don't involve songs from our youth.

Faye Business Systems Group(FayeBSG) has started a reseller program that offers other SugarCRM partners the opportunity to provide services, integrationd and customizations that they may previously have not been able to offer.

Freed Maxick CPAs has expanded its technology consulting practice, offering a new PCI data security service line for clients who are required to be compliant with the security standard.

KPMG has formed a strategic alliance with cloud-based spend optimization product maker Coupa Software to helping clients transform their approach to procurement to improve savings.

Free online accounting software maker Wave has added a receipt-scanning tool with companion mobile apps to their suite of small business offerings.

SugarCRM today demoed its upcoming Sugar 7 product to users, developers and partners which feature – among other things -- on-screen dashboards, social streams, mobility, and increased speed.

SugarCRM is now integrated with ProcessMaker, an open source business process management and workflow suite from Colosa Inc.

Product enhancements, partnerships, and pounding of the proverbial chest were abound over the past week -- all of this just as conference season is about to get into full swing, right after tax season of course.

Accounting services and technology consultancy Armanino has selected to move its small business outsourcing clients from their current accounting platforms to Xero, making them the largest firm thus far to do so.