Best Software Delivers More Insights To Its Partners
(As Well As To The Market)
P.J. Jakovljevic - July 24, 2003

Event Summary

Even before recent outright consolidation bloodshed (see Frantic Merger-Mania Spiced Up With Vendettas Leaves Customers Anxious), many software powerhouses have long been engaged in calibrating their weapons and fortifying their kingdoms. At the beginning of June, somewhat coinciding with the onset of the PeopleSoft/J.D. Edwards and Oracle drama, Best Software, Inc., one of the leading incumbent providers of integrated accounting, business management, HR/payroll and fixed asset solutions for small and mid-sized companies in North America, and a subsidiary of UK-based The Sage Group plc (LSE: SGE.L), one of the leading providers of business management software for mid-sized companies worldwide, with annual sales of $870 million and 3.1 million customers worldwide, organized its first annual Insights 2003 conference for 2,000 business partners in Orlando, FL...