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To help customers potentially affected by Hurricane Sandy, Thomson Reuters reached out to users in 16 states with an offer to set firms up on their Virtual Office CS platform, giving them free access to their CS Professional Suite products and data as well as MS Office.

Tax and accounting software and information provider CCH laid out disaster recovery policy to support customers whose practices have been affected by Hurricane Sandy.

The technology consulting division of McGladrey has acquired top NetSuite reseller Forward Hindsight, effectively increasing its NetSuite business which it started over a year ago.

Epicor Software Corp. introduced its new System Backup & Recovery offering which is designed to help users ensure their Epicor systems are readily available in case of major system issues or disaster.

CCH Small Firm Services has wrapped up its inaugural user conference, with more than 150 attendees spending two days focusing on the ways that changes in laws, professional requirements and technology are impacting tax and accounting.

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SWK Technologies, one of Sage North America’s leading reseller partners, along with six other top Sage and Microsoft Dynamics VARs, recently added NetSuite to their established list of accounting and ERP offerings.

Thomson Reuters has released PPC’s SMART Practice Aids – Compilation and Review to help accounting firm professionals improve compilation and review engagements.

Intuit Inc. has made available QuickBooks Online Accountant, which will give accounting professionals Web-based access to tools to perform essential accounting tasks.

Technology consultant and long-time Sage product reseller Wayne Schultz explains how VARs can and need to have a recurring revenue plan.

Microsoft is planning a Dec. 1 release of Microsoft Dynamics AX 2012 R2, the latest version of its Dynamics AX 2012 product, which will offer multiple new ERP features for companies in four key sectors including manufacturing, retail, the public sector and professional services.

Microsoft Dynamics and Intacct partner Brittenford Systems has released a new whitepaper to address the growing trend of outsourcing all or portions of the chief information officer function in small to midsize businesses given the growing complexity of information technology.

Long-time Sage North America partner RKL eSolutions has hired new staff consisting to support its growing Sage ERP X3 business, while adding cloud-ERP and financial management NetSuite to its product listings.

Automated data entry and workflow software provider Personable Inc. has unveiled ScanWriter 2013, its latest data entry automation technology that is now integrated with Intuit’s QuickBooks 2013, Microsoft Excel, and Sage 50(formerly Peachtree).

Technology adoption and its role in improving client accounting for CPA firms is one of the primary drivers behind CPA2Biz’s current efforts as the technology services subsidiary of the American Institute of CPAs has released a Learning Management Systems (LMS) white paper around the topic.