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With the availability of lower-cost offerings, and a userbase more educated about what business intelligence is and can do for them, BIis becoming an understandable, usable and affordable initiative for small tomidsized businesses and CPA firms.

NetSuite CEO Zach Nelson tried to dispel some of the common myths about Software as a Service technology during his keynote address at the company’s partner conference in San Francisco on Thursday.

BNA Tax & Accounting has introduced its first iPhone application, BNA Quick Tax Reference, an electronic version of the company’s Quick Tax Reference Guide.

Major CPA firm and Microsoft reseller Sikich LLP is hosting an event for the launch of Microsoft Dynamics GP 2010 which will feature, among other things, a private screening of the upcoming movie Iron Man 2.

IBM has introduced software to help governments around the world collect delinquent tax debt.

Sage North America is now offering a Software-as-a-Service application to help nonprofit organizations use the Internet to increase giving, participation and overall support through online donations and registrations.

Nearly three-quarters of the CFOs at midsized companies say they are under pressure to reduce costs and make faster decisions, according to a new study.

FinancialForce.com has introduced Chatterbox, a business collaboration application for users of the company’s Web-based accounting software.

Web-based time clock software provider TimeRack Inc. has entered into a reselling agreement with biometric time clock developer Schlage Biometrics, a division of Ingersoll Rand.

NetSuite Inc. has added graphical workflow management software to its set of offerings that allows users to develop, automate, and streamline complex business processes.

XBRL U.S. has launched the XBRL Consistency Suite, a set of online XBRL tools intended to help public companies identify the large amount of inconsistencies in XBRL documents related to the use of the XBRL U.S. GAAP Taxonomy.

Vertex has enhanced its corporate tax software, the Indirect Tax O Series, with extra features including better management of tax exemption certificates.

Epicor Software has released its new ERP suite, Epicor 9.05, with new industry-specific functionality and expertise, new financial management capabilities, and the ability to connect people, processes and applications.

Accounting Today has issued a call for submissions for its first annual Top New Products report.

Sage North America has added human resources management and employee self-service capabilities to its MIP Fund Accounting software.

FinancialForce.com has introduced QuickStart, a wizard-driven application that helps businesses set up their accounts online quickly with the company’s cloud accounting system.

Accounting software developer CYMA Systems is now offering a steep reduction in pricing to nonprofit and qualifying charitable organizations for its bundled accounting software.

Open-source software developer xTuple has added drop-ship purchasing, time and expense management, and cloud computing to the latest release of its enterprise resource planning software, xTuple ERP 3.5.

The Tax & Accounting business of Thomson Reuters has integrated its latest version of the Sabrix Application Suite with Oracle E-Business Suite Release 12, enabling support for global transaction tax management covering sales, use and value-added tax, across order-to-cash, and procure-to-pay processes for multinational companies.