Accounting Technology articles from March 2005

Accounting Technology archives from March 2005

2005 Show Calendar.(Brief Article)(Calendar)
March 1, 2005... March 6-9 Convergence 2005. Microsoft Business Solutions user conference. San Diego Convention Center, San Diego. www.microsoft.com/BusinessSolutions/convergence/ April 4-5 Information Technology Alliance Spring Members...

Internet Makeovers: Reality and Unreality.
March 1, 2005... The Web page for CBiz Technologies, an arm of Century Business Solutions, proudly proclaims, "Great Plains Siebel Solution Now Available From CBiz Technologies." The only problem from a marketing point of view is that Great Plains dropped...

Firms That Say Niche.(Business management)
March 1, 2005... It's been said many times, but it's still true, going vertical is a way to profits. and it keeps a business from looking like all the others who are selling the same product or service. In "Serving a Niche Market," associate editor Carly...

Need Insights?
March 1, 2005... Editor Robert Scott also writes "Consulting Insights," a free, twice-monthly electronic newsletter that addresses issues concerning the consulting and reselling market. It's insight with an attitude. If you want to subscribe, you can do so at...

What has been your experience with document management systems?(Letter to the Editor)
March 1, 2005... For my practice, I am trying out document management again. I think it has come of age now. I was so surprised and happy to discover that my new multi-paper, flat-bed scanner allowed me to name each scanned documents either as a group or a...

Yeo & Yeo Promotes McCulloch.(Brief Article)
March 1, 2005... Yeo & Yeo, a CPA firm based in Saginaw, Mich., has promoted Jeff McCulloch to president of Yeo & Yeo Computer Consulting. He was formerly vice president and chief operating officer. McCulloch has been with the firm since 1996. The...

Condon Tops Blackbaud Sales.(Blackbaud Consulting Services )(Brief Article)
March 1, 2005... Holly Condon, director of Blackbaud Consulting Services with the Washington, D.C.-based Calibre CPA Sales group, was named salesperson of the year for the reseller channel of not-for-profit accounting software vendor Blackbaud. Condon's...

Tectura Gets Funds.(Brief Article)
March 1, 2005... Tectura, the Tempe, Ariz.-based reseller, has received $10 million in private equity funding from the General Electric Pension Trust. That money is targeted at continuing expansion and for general working capital. Previous investors include...

BrownSmith Names Principal.(BrownSmith Wallace)(Brief Article)
March 1, 2005... BrownSmith Wallace, a St. Louis-based CPA firm, has promoted Jeff Gusdorf to principal of its consulting group. Gusdorf will continue to have responsibility for IT strategic consulting and software research and evaluation, and lead the...

Rose Hires Manager.(Rose Business Solutions)(Brief Article)
March 1, 2005... Rose Business Solutions, which received the Microsoft Business Solutions Global Excellence in Customer Care award, has created the position of customer satisfaction manager. The San Diego-based firm hired Juliet Conniff to fill the new job....

XBSS Goes Bust.(Xpert Business Systems and Solutions)(Brief Article)
March 1, 2005... XBSS, a Cincinnati-based company that started acquiring technology operations last year, has closed its doors. XBSS acquired Akron, Ohio-based Centerprise Information Systems, a Great Plains and Best Software reseller. However, Doug...

Columbus IT Gets CEO.(Brief Article)
March 1, 2005... Columbus IT Partner, a reselling firm based in Denmark, has named Vladislav Martynov, a former Microsoft executive, as its new CEO. Martynov, who served as director of strategy from Microsoft's Redmond, Wash., headquarters, replaces Carsten...

Vitale Picks IT Director.(Brief Article)
March 1, 2005... Vitale Caturano has hired Art Sebastiano as the first director of internal technology for the Boston-based CPA firm. Sebastiano was previously a member of the executive management team for North Atlantic Networks. At Vitale, he is...

Learning Tops Ohio's List.
March 1, 2005... Asked to rate the AICPA's Top Ten Technologies, 46 percent of visitors to the Ohio CPA Society's Web site named learning and training competency. None chose spam or storage technologies, which were No. 4 and No. 9 respectively on the AICPA...

Aston Exec Joins Microsoft.(Brief Article)
March 1, 2005... Morgan Elsberg, who was CEO of Aston Business Solutions, has joined Microsoft Business Solutions as general manager of its Navision software operations. Aston, a reseller based in Denmark, was purchased by Tectura last year. Elsberg, who...

MBS Sales Flat.(Brief Article)
March 1, 2005... Revenue for Microsoft Business nudged up less than a half percent as sales hit $211 million in the quarter ended December 31, up from $210 million a year earlier. The company says that declines in service and online revenue offset...

Best Hires Griffin.(Brief Article)
March 1, 2005... Best Software has hired Marc Griffin as general manager of its Austin, Texas-based nonprofit division. Griffin replaces Kent Hollrah, who resigned last year to take another job. The nonprofit division markets the MIP line of not-for-profit...

Kintera Adds VP.(Brief Article)
March 1, 2005... Kintera, which recently purchased FundWare, has named Jim Schenck as vice president of accounting and members, with responsibility for accelerating software development. Schenck's duties include support and enhancement of FundWare. The...

Aston Leaves BVision.(Brief Article)
March 1, 2005... Murray Aston, the founder of BusinessVision, has left his position as president of the company that is now owned by Best Software. Also leaving is Mandy Barina, BusinessVision's executive vice president of operations. Aston founded...

Scala Pushes Epicor Results.(Brief Article)
March 1, 2005... Earnings for Irvine, Calif.-based Epicor jumped sharply to $25.3 million for fiscal 2004, from $9.3 million the prior year, while sales likewise soared, as the results reflected last year's acquisition of Scala Business Solutions. Revenue...

Blackbaud Files Offering.(Brief Article)
March 1, 2005... Not-for-profit software vendor Blackbaud has filed a shelf registration for 10 million shares that will be offered for sale by its investors and officers. The company will not sell any stock. The Charleston, S.C.-based company, which went...

Harding Takes VP Job.(Brief Article)
March 1, 2005... Wayne Harding has become vice president of development for Rivet Software, which develops XML-based applications for financial integrity management. Denver-based Rivet was founded by Mike Rohan, founder of FRx Software, which is now owned...

Serenic Absorbs Parent.(Serenic Software)(Vision HRM Software)(Brief Article)
March 1, 2005... Vision HRM Software, the Edmonton, Canada-based company that acquired not-for-profit vendor Serenic Software last year, has changed its name to Serenic Corp. Publicly traded, the newly named Serenic will keep its headquarters in Edmonton,...

Norrington Exits Intuit.(Brief Article)
March 1, 2005... Lorrie Norrington, executive vice president of Intuit, has left the company to seek a job as a CEO elsewhere. Norrington was apparently eyed as a successor to CEO Steve Bennett when she was hired on July 31, 2001. She gets a severance...

Brentmark Buys Fplan.(Brief Article)
March 1, 2005... Brentmark Software has acquired the Fplan financial planning software package from First Financial Software, which stopped operations at the end of 2004. Brentmark is dropping Fplan and giving its users a chance to receive its PFP...

Mphasis Results.(Mphasis Inc.)(Brief Article)
March 1, 2005... Mphasis, which provides IT and business process outsourcing, saw its earnings drop nearly six percent on a more-than-22 percent rise in revenue for its third quarter ended December 31. Net income fell to roughly $5.2 million from $6.5...

Profiles Taps VP.(Brief Article)
March 1, 2005... Financial Profiles, a financial planning software vendor, has named Susan Papanek as its new vice president of engineering. Papanek will be responsible for product development and quality assurance at the Carlsbad, Calif.-based company. She...

CSI Opens 1040 Portals.(Brief Article)
March 1, 2005... Creative Solutions has launched its UltraTax 1040 Portals, which let firms enable their clients to complete tax organizers online and access electronic copies of their completed returns. Firms can post read-only PDF copies of completed...

Warwick Goes to West.(Peter Warwick named president and CEO Thomson West)(Brief Article)
March 1, 2005... Peter Warwick, who has headed Thomson Tax & Accounting for the last four years, has been named president and CEO of sister operation Thomson West. Warwick, who led the tax and accounting group from New York City, will be based in Eagan,...

McGladrey Buys SourceWeb.(RSM McGladrey Inc.)(Brief Article)
March 1, 2005... RSM McGladrey Employer Services has purchased the SourceWeb HR/payroll and self-service system from Ceridian. The firm also acquired the SourceWeb customer base of around 800 small and midsized businesses. RSM McGladrey plans to keep many...

Advent Revamps Web Site.(Advent Software Inc.)(Brief Article)
March 1, 2005... Advent Software, a San Francisco-based software company, has relaunched its Web site at www.advent.com, to introduce a new brand identity and to provide more information about its products. The company sells the Geneva fund administration...

TaxWise Offers Card.(CashWise Card)(Brief Article)
March 1, 2005... TaxWise, a Rome, Ga.-based tax preparation software company, is offering its tax preparers the CashWise Card, which can be used by consumers who receive refund anticipation loans. The store-value cards let consumers avoid check-cashing fees...

Correction.(Correction Notice)
March 1, 2005... The number of customers using PayCycle's online payroll processing system was incorrectly reported in the January issue of Accounting Technology. The company reports that it has 14,000 customers. PayCycle is headquartered in Palo Alto,...

Serving a Niche Market: Accountants and resellers are realizing that focusing on a niche market not only makes a firm stand out-it makes them money.
March 1, 2005... Dave Ligotti serves up accounting functions ranging from payroll and payables to financial management for restaurants throughout the U.S. Working with these restaurants contributes 85 percent of his $1.1 million in annual revenue. "Serving...

Serving Your Niche.
March 1, 2005... Carol Ann Barnaby baffles her competition. "When serving a niche, it's important to develop on-going relationships. We want our clients to know us when we call, and develop friendships. In turn, they get what they need, and we're familiar...

Write-up Lives!: New companies and new functions hit the market.
March 1, 2005... Just a couple of years ago, it looked like the write-up market was going to turn into a one-horse show. Creative Solutions, usually considered to have the greatest market share in write-up, had devoured a number of competing products:...

Write-up Vendors.(Directory)
March 1, 2005... ATX Caribou, Maine (877) 728-9776 www.atxinc.com CCH Torrance, Calif. (800) 739-9998 http://tax.cchgroup.com Creative Solutions Dexter, Mich. (800) 968-8900 www.creativesolutions.thomson.com CPASoftware...

Saving Trees and File Space.
March 1, 2005... Document management systems are moving into the mainstream. In the sci-fi thriller Minority Report, one of the most impressive scenes was Tom Cruise rapidly moving his hands to retrieve and manipulate large amounts of video and text files...

Empowered workers boost companies' bottom lines.
March 1, 2005... Post offices, grocery stores and retail giant Home Depot offer self-service checkout. It's a concept that has migrated to the human resources world with great results. Workers can be given the ability to track, review, and amend their...

Top 10 Benefits of HR Software.(Brief Article)
March 1, 2005... * Increase employee and manager productivity. * Improve service to employees and managers. * Reduce administrative and operating costs. * Improve overall organizational and HR efficiency. * Enable HR to service the organization...

Delphia Sees Opportunity.(Brian Delphia)
March 1, 2005... Brian Delphia agrees that there is a lot of opportunity to computerize HR departments. His Columbus, Ohio-based reselling firm closed four deals in the first week of February. None of the new clients had previously used HR software. ...

HR Software Vendors.(Brief Article)(Directory)
March 1, 2005... Accpac International Pleasanton, Calif. (800) 944-1000 www.accpac.com ADP Roseland, N.J. (973) 974-5000 www.adp.com Ascentis Bellevue, Wash. (800) 229-2713 www.ascentis.com Best Software Specialty...

Language translations and currency conversions enhance financial accuracy.
March 1, 2005... The majority of D-Liteful Baking Company's rank-and-file employees speak Spanish, whereas English is dominant among management at the Miami-based company. Eighty-five percent of D-Liteful's 40 workers who speak Spanish are more proficient...

New Products.(business management software)
March 1, 2005... Office Tools Pro 2005 Office Tools Pro, a practice management package, incorporates contact management, time and billing, scheduling, document management, due date reporting, and project tracking. Call dispatch enables users to send a...

MYOB: Reaching Accountants.(Company Profile)
March 1, 2005... MYOB, best known for its presence in the Mac accounting market, is hitting the streets to expand its name recognition. The Rockaway, N.J.-based company has enhanced its channel programs and returned to the CPA trade show circuit to get the...

Advertisers' Index March 2005.(Illustration)
March 1, 2005... For FREE product information, go to www.AccountingTechnology.com/freeproductinfo Ad Appears Advertiser on page Best 6,7 CCH C4 Creative Solutions ...

Jacqueline Tiso: Going National.(JMT Consulting)(Company Profile)
March 1, 2005... JMT Consulting has gone through explosive growth over the past three months, keeping them on track to be national in three years. President Jacqueline Tiso has seen 20 percent revenue growth each year, and is counting on her "bold new...