The Association of Dynamics Professionals (DynamicsPro) is offering preparation sessions for Dynamics certification exams. The association is holding Exam Cram webinars that feature Dynamics experts who discuss how they passed the tests.

At the end of January, this newsletter tiptoed around the math that suggests the annual revenue for Microsoft's Dynamics operations. But after running the basic algebraic formula through advisors (i.e., my daughter the math major), it appears Dynamics revenue annualizes to about $1.1 billion to $1.2 billion.

Blackbaud's move to subscription revenue has reached the point the coming is looking to the day it sells zero software. But in the meantime, subscription represented 62 percent of sales for the fourth quarter ended December 31 and as the company turned in a good year.