Microsoft Dynamics Master VAR Tribridge took the opportunity during the Convergence 2013 user and partner event to announce the addition of two new affiliates to its network, CBR Technology and MIC Business Solutions.

Microsoft Dynamics' plans for its products' future are heavily focused on the cloud with some mobile and social aspects, specifically with its latest releases.

Acumatica seems to have rounded out its spate of high-level appointments with the recent hiring of Jeff Wilson as its new chief financial officer.

A recent Sage North America survey of small to midsized businesses found that laptops and smartphones were the most commonly used mobile devices by employees to access work-related information while out of the office.

In a move similar to Facebook’s, cloud accounting software maker Xero will only be developing future mobile apps for Apple and Android platforms, foregoing HTML 5.

Microsoft Dynamics will start enabling mobile functions for Microsoft Dynamics AX users, which will include native experiences for smart phones and tablets, and will work “first and best” on Windows Phone and Windows 8.

SAP has released the SAP Fraud Management analytic application powered by SAP HANA, the latest analytics tool from the enterprise software maker designed to integrate with most ERP systems in order to detect, investigate, analyze and prevent irregularities or fraud activity.

The long-standing communication impasse between accounting software used by businesses and business software used by accountants is finally beginning to dissolve, thanks to the emergence of new cloud-based business intelligence solutions.

Sometimes where you're going is more important than where you've been, accountants and consultants are realizing this for their clients and figuring how to capitalize, but in my case rather than looking at the week that was I'm eyeing next week's major user and partner confab that is Microsoft Convergence 2013.

Sales tax and compliance automation service provider Avalara has introduced AvaTax Consumer Use, its automated consumer use tax offering ,which will be integrated with most billing, financial and ERP systems – the first of which will be Microsoft Dynamics ERP products.

In this final installment of a three-part series on consulting firm management, Blytheco director of customer and partner strategy Apryl Hanson explains the three key steps in establishing a firm's vision

Armanino has released an integrated application for Microsoft Dynamics CRM 2011 that supports the product lifecycle for manufacturers, distributors and medical device and life sciences companies.

CCH’s sales and use tax calculation product Sales Tax Office has completed the certification process for integration in the Microsoft Dynamics AX 2012 ERP system.

The Minnesota Department of Revenue is advising the state’s tax payers not to use Intuit products to file their 2012 taxes electronically or on paper due to what it claims are “multiple issues” with their products, according to a recent Forbes article.

Tax bills, tools and tweaks to products and programs topped this week's tech news, which by the way is now coming to you twice per week.

Audit and risk management product maker ACL has released version 4 of its Analytics Exchange (AX) product —formerly ACL AuditExchange – with enhancements designed to enable adjacent departments, including finance, risk and compliance, to identify control deficiencies such as fraud and revenue leakage.

A recent Bill.com survey of CFOs and finance managers found that 66 percent of respondents are now processing transactions from their device with the majority moving towards conducting more business via the cloud and mobile devices.

Sage North America is looking to enhance its channel partner program by adding a product and company scoring initiative as well as a dedicated market development fund to help fuel partner marketing initiatives.

SAP has made available a new version of the Business One ERP product for its HANA data aggregator, designed to integrate the capabilities of an in-memory platform with the company’s existing SAP Business One application.

FinancialForce.com CEO Jeremy Roche answers questions about how the current environment is affecting his company and accounting technology overall, as well as where – if at all -- accounting professionals factor in