CCH's IntelliConnect research platform is going to support the Apple Safari operating system this year. It's a tribute to just how far Apple has come in gaining acceptance in the business market and is part of the developing mobile strategy of the tax and accounting vendor. Read more...

Sage is putting new life into the Business Partner Alliance Program, which is designed to promote programs that bring accountants and value-added resellers together. It's a program that has been dormant for a few years. "We haven’t been actively pursuing new connections between the VAR and the CPAs," said Jennifer Warawa, the senior director for partner programs for Sage North America.

Product names such as Peachtree, Timberline, Accpac and MAS will be history in the next two years, under a plan announced this morning at Summit, the combined user and reseller conference of Sage North America. The plan, detailed by Pascal Houillon, the company's CEO, is merely the latest plan announced by the company, which is headquartered in England. But it is by far the most radical step yet formulated.