QAD held to one industry pattern, but broke another as both subscription and license revenue rose by 33 percent for the first quarter ended April 30. The Santa Barbara, Calif.-based software vendor cut its loss to $2.6 million for the most recently quarter, down 8.6 percent from $2.8 million year earlier.

Jennifer Warawa has become EVP of partners, accountants, and alliances as Sage shuffled people and executive titles this week. She takes over a position previously held by Alan Laing, who has become managing director for the United Kingdom and Ireland.

FinancialForce is a readying an effort to give its nascent channel more visibility. For one, the cloud company has invited me to its CommunityLive 2017 conference mid-June in Las Vegas. Also the hiring of Fred Studer in March as chief marketing officer suggests that since he was been involved with organizations with active channels.