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.

Cloud accounting software vendor FinancialForce.com has introduced apps for the Apple iPhone and RIM BlackBerry.

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Certify LLC has made improvements to its online expense management technology service, integrating it with QuickBooks and adding a user delegate feature to its software.

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AccuFund, Inc. has expanded the capabilities of its AccuFund Accounting Suite by integrating it with Excel-based financial reporting software F9 Professional Version 5, allowing it to create customizable reports in Excel.

Microsoft Corp. is effectively throwing down the gauntlet to U.S.-based NetSuite customers by offering midsized companies $850 for every user who switches to any Dynamics ERP product.

Intuit Inc. has made its Intuit Online Payroll product available on the Google Apps Marketplace, effectively broadening the distribution of the Software as a Service payroll product to small business users. It is the first of Intuit’s products to be offered on Google.

Sage North America has begun accepting applications for its authorized referral partner program and authorized reseller and certified implementation partner program for Sage Millennium, the company’s Web-based, constituent relationship management software for large nonprofit organizations.

A recent move by technology consultant Accession Technology to offer a zero-percent financing option and free consultation services to all companies interested in upgrading or converting to Sage Software’s MAS 500 ERP 7.3 is part of a much larger effort by the software maker to help customers reduce implementation costs.