E-file, Direct Deposit, IRS.gov Get Highest Usage Ever
WASHINGTON (IRS) — The 2007 tax filing season set a number of electronic records, highlighted by over 76 million electronically-filed individual tax returns and more than 140 million visits to IRS.gov, the Internal Revenue Service said.
“E-file and our other electronic services helped us deliver a strong filing season for the nation’s taxpayers,†said IRS Acting Commissioner Kevin M. Brown. “Again this year, millions of additional taxpayers gave up paper tax returns to file electronically. E-file and IRS.gov were among several factors that helped us overcome one of the most challenging filing seasons ever for the IRS.â€
Coaching, Employee Healthcare, and Timeshare Recruiting Programs for Channel Partners
ORLANDO, FL — (MARKET WIRE) — Sage Software announced today, during its annual Business Partner conference, Insights 2007, several new business support programs for its Business Partner channel, including coaching programs for sales and marketing; BenefitProtect, which provides employee healthcare benefit support; and Timeshare Recruiting, which provides a shared recruitment resource that lowers the cost of staff recruitment.
The new programs are part of the Sage Partner Advantage Program, which has received numerous accolades in the past, and most recently won a 5-Star Partner Program rating by VARBusiness magazine. The new program additions, along with a host of other program enhancements, provide additional breadth and depth to Sage Software’s partner programs, enabling business partners to better manage, grow and market their products and services. READ MORE →
“Our customers’ needs are our primary business driver,” said Sage Software CEO Ron Verni.
ORLANDO, FL (MARKET WIRE) — At Insights 2007, its annual business partner conference, Sage Software is showcasing its extensive portfolio of business management software and services for small and mid-sized businesses (SMBs) and nonprofit organizations, including new versions of Sage MAS 90 and 200 ERP and Sage SalesLogix CRM.
The breadth of products being highlighted at Insights 2007 underscores Sage Software’s strength in offering the broadest range of business management solutions for SMBs from a single vendor, providing businesses and organizations with integrated applications, choice in their technology options, and the ability to migrate to more advanced software products as their operations grow. This broad selection of products and services also underpins the company’s Sage 360° approach to connecting with their customers, providing a complete experience that begins with a comprehensive suite of business management solutions and continues with customized installation, expert training, and superior service and support. READ MORE →
Sage Sketches In Roadmap To Common Components Parses product lines into ‘strategic’ and ‘value,’ pledges Project 360 roadmap to common components, desktop.
Sage Software, which fields a sometimes-bewildering array of financial software brands is now prioritizing. On Tuesday a Sage executive listed both its “strategic” products, those upon which it will base its future. And, she enumerated its “value” line which will be maintained but not much more. The core strategic products are… more.
Insights NA 2007 is being held at the Gaylord Palms Hotel and Conference centre in Orlando, Florida.
The word ‘huge’ does not quite do the centre justice; neither does ‘monstrous’ as the centre is impeccably groomed and the facilities very good; so I’m going to go with ‘absolutely enormous beyond any real comprehension’ (apologies for the superlatives). The live ‘gators and terrapins where a particular joy, although I wouldn’t like to say this was the sentiment expressed by the Koi carp that share the artificial lake with them… more.
Insights 2007
This event is always a special event. But this year it is more special due to the recent reorganization at Sage Software. Bringing old walls down between small business and mid-business; front office and back office products should be a welcome move by customers and partners. This will serve our customers well and it should enable partners to foster an healthier eco-system. More…READ MORE →
Have you got a bummer or a grouch in the office? You know, one of those people always in a nasty mood? Or, perhaps worse, one of those perpetually chirpy people who carry emotional stilettos and aren’t afraid to use them on others’ ideas?
Bummers and grouches are as inevitable as taxes and death, but that doesn’t mean you have to suffer them gladly. Odds are these people don’t even know what the effect they’re having on others. They think their moods are so contained that no one else is seeing the dark secrets inside their skulls.
In an environment driven by four key factors – competition, regulation, radically new technology, and shortages of talent — and in which the regulation of accounting and law firms is more stringent than ever before — survival becomes increasingly difficult.
For a great many firms these are boom times. Thanks to Sarbanes-Oxley and other such regulation, the profession is soaring. Too many other firms, however, are drowning under the same burden.
But boom times can be dangerous times. Growth for the successful firm can be too rapid and lead to burnout, and, as times change, to rapid deceleration. In the less successful firms, it can mean being unable to cope with the new regulation and its demands upon clients, and, in turn, upon the firms. These firms are too often being swamped, struggling for survival, or merging in shotgun weddings. Nor can many of these overburdened firms compete well in this dynamic environment.
Moreover, when today’s success is driven by conditions in the marketplace, then control of that success is in the arbitrary hands of outside forces, and not in the hands of the firm itself, further endangering continued success as the regulatory situation matures.
Rapper Vanilla Ice introduces the $25,000 Grand Prize Winner: “Turbo Tax Rap — Aw Dip (The Audit Song),” by cpulfer
TurboTax-maker Intuit put together a video contest offering $25,000 to the person who created the best video about TurboTax. “And, yes,” AdRants reports, “it was hosted by Vanilla Ice. Come on. Don’t laugh. A guy’s gotta do something after a career in white-boy rap, right?” READ MORE →
Coaching, Employee Healthcare, and Timeshare Recruiting Programs for Channel Partners
“Our customers’ needs are our primary business driver,” said Sage Software CEO Ron Verni. 
