Avalara has enhanced CertCapture, its software that enables users to capture, manage, and analyze tax compliance documents in real-time. Important new features include what the company called a simplified user interface for use in point-of-sale systems. There is also a single sign-on to exemption certificate management.

Australia-based MYOB has acquired Greentree, which makes financial software for companies with roughly 100 to 1,000 employees. MYOB is buying Auckland, N.Z.-based Greentree for $20.5 million. The move will give MYOB a broader geographical reach and a larger potential base of clients. MYOB operates in Australia and New Zealand and serves companies with about 20 to 500 employees.

Sage has debuted the Sage Cloud to integrate applications to connect its software products. While the product announcement called the platform the Sage Cloud, CFO Stephen Hare consistently called it the Sage Integration Cloud in the week's webcast for its third-quarter trading update. Even if that's not the official name, it seems to provide a good description of the platform's purpose.