Edgewater Technologies has acquired M2 Dynamics via, an Oracle Platinum Partner for $16.1 million in cash. The deal is an asset acquisition. M2 will join Edgewater Ranzal, the Oracle segment of the business of Wakefield, Mass.-based Edgewater. The Edgewater folks have been busy with CEO Shirley Singleton reporting her organization had been working on the transaction for several months—a brief overview says May.

Christmas and New Year's Day are both on Fridays this year. Figuring that readers don't want to read that day and I don't want to work that day, there will be one issue of the Bob Scott's Insights newsletter published on Wednesday, December 30. Items will continued to be posted to the website as warranted by events. So here's hoping that Santa includes M&A activity for the year-end to help keeping that issue from being too dreary. Happy Holidays from me and the gang at Progressive Media Group.

SimPro, which owns Gem Accounts, is recruiting a reseller channel in the United States. It has hired Ken Del Gobbo, who has been president of Gem Accounts since October 2013, as VP of partnerships for North America to enlist VARs for simPro's job management software. That leaves the question of what is going on with Gem Accounts, which launched small business and mid-market versions of its accounting software two years ago?