Sage has expanded its alliance with Fairsail, whose Human Capital Management Cloud system is built on the Salesforce1 platform. Under the new deal, Fairsail becomes the cloud HCM platform of choice for Sage X3. Sage X3 and Fairsail products will work together to provide companies with processes to manage financials, supply chain, payroll, workforce and talent management, all in the cloud.

Boomer Consulting has named Jim Boomer as CEO to succeed his father and founder, L. Gary Boomer. The Manhattan, Kan.-based firm also selected Sandra Wiley as president, Dustin Hostetler as chief innovation officer, and L. Gary Boomer as visionary and strategist. "This shift in leadership represents the roles each of our leaders have played over the last several years and will allow Boomer Consulting to better focus on strategic growth," L. Gary Boomer, said in a prepared statement.

Accounting firm Wipfli has acquired Reston, Va.-based Brittenford Systems. As with the recently announced purchase of BCG & Co.—including its BCG reselling and consulting operations—by Sikich, we have an accounting firm in the Bob Scott Top 100 VARs, acquiring another member of the Top 100. In the 2015 list, the reselling and consulting portion of Wipfli was No. 11 with $37 million in revenue while Brittenford was No.90 with $4.82 million.