Syspro has named Brian Rainboth as general manager for Canada. The hiring comes as the company continues the retooling in the hemisphere that was signaled when it acquires its long-time distributor, Syspro USA, last year.

Solver has introduced the first of a coming series of Hybrid Cloud Connectors. The analytics software company this month hit the market with the cloud-to-on-premise connector for Dynamics GP.

Insightsoftware has acquired Longview this week, continuing on its M&A path. Terms were not disclosed.