SAP Canada has hired John Graham as managing director. Graham replaces Bob Elliott, who became SVP of global sales for HootSuite in November. Elliott started at SAP in October 2007 and held the Canadian position from May 2013 until his departure. Graham has spent 14 years at SAP and was most recently head of the Global Partner Organization for SAP North America with, responsibility for managing strategic alliance partners, channel resellers, third-party partners, OEM partners, distribution, inside sales and managed cloud as a service. Graham also served as COO of SAP North America.

Fine Solutions, a Lynwood, Wash.-based Dynamics reseller, has acquired BestTechsSW a Dynamics GP VAR based in Issaquah, Wash. Mike LaBrie, former partner of the purchased company, has joined the Fine Solutions Project Delivery Team. Fine Solutions, headed by CEO Dan Fine, said the deal brings its staff to 35, expected to reach 50 in two years. (And there are so many deals this week I am running out of headline words for "buys".)

AlfaPeople, a Dynamics AX reseller, has sold its IT Service Management division to Gatineau, Quebec-based Provance. The deal transfers AlfaPeople's ITSM software, licensees and supporting personnel and other assets to Provance in exchange for equity. Provance will focus on software including IT Asset Management, on Microsoft platforms. The AlpaPeople and Provance products will be sold individually and packaged collections and be developed, supported and sold by the new merged entity under the Provance name.