Infor said its channel had strong growth in the year end May 31 2016. The software vendor made that statement this week in a webcast about financial results for the fiscal year CEO Charles Phillips said the channel had 14-percent revenue growth and that during the year, Infor also consolidated its regional channel operations in one global organization led by SVP Jeff Abbott. As a result, "We are attracting a lot more partners," Phillips said.

The Rand Group, a Dynamics reseller based in Houston, Texas, has named Joe Eldridge as its first chief technology officer. Rand said Eldridge will have a heavy focus on developing "a deeper level of Professional Services." The company also said that the increasing number of cloud opportunities and changes to the Microsoft channel program means Eldridge will "work closely with the development teams to deliver a noticeably improved set of competencies and a superior balance of skills." 

Faye Business Systems Group has been selected as Most Valuable Global Partner for 2016 by SugarCRM. The award was made at SugarCon 2016, the company's channel and customer conference this month. Faye, led by David Faye, is based in Woodland Hills, Calif. The company is also a developer that recently released Sage 100 integration 3.0. Sugar also gave Brainsell Technologies the channel leader award for North America.