Intacct has hired Ian Howells as VP of market development. Intacct says Howells will "spearhead the cross-company go-to-market strategies for Intacct's targeted vertical market segments. Before joining the San Jose, Calif.-based cloud software vendor, the exec was the head of marketing at Argyle Data, which is a machine learning Hadoop application vendor.

Sage has hired Blair Crump as president with responsibility for sales and customer service, the first time Sage has ever had a president for the company's world-wide operations. Crump will report to CEO Stephen Kelly. Crump was COO from Pros Holdings from February 2014 and president of Salesforce.com from February 2012 through January 2014.

Software giant Infor has acquired Starmount, which makes store systems for large and mid-market resellers. Starmount provides point-of-sale, mobile shopping assistant, and store inventory management products. Infor says the purchase will enable it to accelerate delivery of Infor CloudSuite Retail. Infor has been hiring extensively to support its retail effort.