Denmark-based reseller Columbus showed decent revenue growth for the nine months ended September 30 despite a slowdown in the SMB business in the United States. The company this week reported before tax profit of roughly $9.6 million for the reported period, up 4 percent from a year earlier.

Columbus said this week it plans to utilize its January acquisition of Swedish iStone to take the Infor M3 (Lawson) product line global. The initiative is a major change for Columbus which had concentrated on the Dynamics line and its internally developed Columbus Software.

Denmark-based Columbus said it is integrating SMB and enterprise operations in the United States ahead of schedule because of results for the half ended June 30. The reselling and software development company did not spell out what that meant during this week's webcast.

Columbus story of 2013 was its continued efforts to decrease its reliance on Microsoft products. And the Copenhagen, Denmark-based company noted this week its success in transforming itself into a consulting business that relies on sales of its own products, not of third-party products. Revenue for 2013 was flat as the sale of what it calls external software dropped by 32 percent over 2013 levels. As executives went though results of regions in an earnings webcast this week, the repeated theme was the drop in third-party revenue because of Microsoft's changes to its partner program.