Avalara plans to consolidate its offices in the Seattle, Wash., area in a new office building next year. The company says it will move into the building at 255 King Street, the Avalara Hawk Tower—it gets its name on the building—by the end of 2017. The sales-and-use-tax company says this will be the first time its employees in the region have been in one building since 2001.

SucarCRM has outlined its plans for intelligent CRM, which it says begins with the Sugar Intelligence Service. The company laid out the plans at SugarCon, its annual customer and channel conference now underway. Sugar Intelligence Service, under development, will combine data from "best-in-class external sources with company CRM data to provide a comprehensive view of the customer," the company said in a press release.

Sage is expected to announce next week a deal to sell JobOps, the manufacturing software offered by Synergistic Software. Under an Endorsed Solutions agreement, Sage 100c customers can license JobOps, sold under the name Sage 100c Manufacturing, via subscription starting July 1. JobOps has been available for years to the Sage community. According to members of the channel, Sage signaled the deal with scheduled sessions for next month's Sage Summit conference.