SAP has released Business One version 8.82 which offers new capabilities for campaign management and materials requirements planning.

The campaign management capabilities, an extension of CRM functionality, enable businesses to create, maintain and analyze multi-channel marketing campaign information. The system also lets users allocate serial numbers to items for sales orders, accounts receivable reserve invoices and inventory transfer requests while serial and batch numbers can be allocated to items throughout the pick and pack process. Read more...

NetSuite has released OneWorld 2011 with one highlight being automated intercompany management that the company says “accelerates and increases the efficiency and rigor of the close process.” (I like to pretend I understand what all this stuff means.) It expands support for international taxation and audit reporting and provides new advanced inventory costing capabilities, Standard Costing functionality. Tax reporting has been expanded to more than 40 companies and support for Dutch and French Canadian is offered. There is also new vendor bill approval routing and real-time multidimensional analysis through Pivot analytics. CRM has been enhanced with Product Affinity Analytics, designed to provide insights into correlations between products typically purchased together and new sales activity management. Read more...

Unit4, which markets the Coda and Agresso lines, said its license revenue for the third quarter ending September 30 was up by more than 20 percent in Scandinavia, North America and Asia.  Read more...