SSI Consulting has made Gary Prioste CEO of the Vienna, Va.-based reselling firm. Prioste replaces Bill Aiton, who held that position for 13 years. SSI was recently purchased by Santa Clara, Calif.-based Menlo Technologies.

Kirill Tatarinov, who once led Microsoft's Dynamics business, has joined Acumatica's board of directors. Given the number of ex-Microsoft people at Acumatica and the number of Russians at top levels of the cloud software company, he fits right in.

Perennial award winner, Navigator Business Solutions has received SAP's North American Award for Partner Excellence for Cloud Solutions. The award was among many given recently to resellers, consulting firms and ISVs by the software company.