Intuit had a killer tax season in both consumer and professional software sales. In an earnings webcast, CEO Brad Smith said, "We succeeded on all fronts" in meeting financial goals, continuing "We won this tax season." The company gained about a 1.5-percentage point gain in market share in the do-it-yourself tax category and the 3-percent gain in professional tax revenue was a strong performance in the slow-growing paid preparer market.

Intuit CEO Brad Smith appeared this week to place the company's CPASelect program into the category of something that is useful, but which won't become a major tool. Smith said during the company's earnings webcast for the second quarter that its emphasis is on reducing the number of tax questions consumers have, more than on providing expert help

Moving to the Cloud: Aging channel leadership and the usual vagaries of vendors in the reselling channel. This year’s BSI’s Top 100 VARs comes as technology and people are in a greater state of flux than we have seen for years. Resellers who have been running their firms for decades have started stepping aside. The top vendors in the market are squeezing their VAR channels with lower margins. But despite all the pressure, there are always the companies that do well and we present 100 of them in this report.

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