Acumatica is continuing its overseas expansion by partnering with software developers in other countries. This time, it is German software vendor Lexware which is getting into the cloud market by building its application on the Acumatica xRP platform. It is a tactic that Bellevue, Wash.-based Acumatica has used in four other countries in which its product, but not its name, is moving into their markets.

Exact has been sponsoring Max Verstappen, the youngest-ever Formula One winner for almost a year. Now the Dutch company has signed him as a Tech Talent Leader. Exact said his job, starting this month, is to inspire "some of the company's most promising tech talent." Exact began sponsoring the driver in August when he was 17, before a rule raising the minimum age to 18 kicked in and this year he became the youngest driver to win a Formula One event by taking the Spanish Grand Prix.

RealPage, which makes property management software, has launched a VAR program. The Carrollton, Texas-based software company has not said how many resellers it might have signed. However, it did provide a statement by Scott Irwin, CEO of Aktion Associates, about his company's decision to take on the line. Besides reselling RealPage's accounting system, VARs will handle the other elements in the commercial suite, which include property management, budgeting, document management, eProcurement and reporting functionality.