The Tax & Accounting business of Thomson Reuters has launched a Certified Implementer Program for its OneSource corporate tax products and named Grant Thornton as the first participant. The agreement is with the U.S. member firm of Grant Thornton International but all member firms outside this country are eligible to participate. Read more...

Sage North America says it has isolated, but not solved, the problem that has caused in instability and outages to its online systems, including a 22-hour outage on June 1 and 2 in which the company's Web site, email and order entry-system and an online CRM application were out simultaneously during part of that time.

A mix of security issues topped the annual list of Top Technology Initiatives as selected by the American Institute of CPAs. The top issues selected encompassed security of data; code and communications; data security and document retention and security threats. Traditionally, the selection has been announced in January. However, this year, announcement was delayed as the AICPA considered changes to the selection process.