The Alerion Capital Group has made what was described as a major investment in Navigator Business Solutions. Navigator, based in Salt Lake City, Utah, is an SAP reseller and has been SAP Cloud Partner of the Year every year since 2009. "The investment by Alerion will help us advance and accelerate our highly regarded cloud first methodology to a broader reach," CEO Grant Fraser said in a prepared statement.

Brad Smith, who held important executive positions with Sage North America, has started a new business. His company, Vector Business Navigation, was founded in September, but only recently popped up when Smith changed his LinkedIn profile. Smith's profile said he "Created a suite of service offerings and tools to diagnose, design and deliver strategic multi-year CX transformations".

Continuing to grow its business segments outside of financial software, Net@Work has acquired Dresser & Associates. Dresser, based in Scarborough, Maine, has been a frequent member of the Sage President's Circle and has about 600 customers. "For us to be an amazingly good HRMS shop, we needed to expand our acquisition strategy," Net@Work co-president Alex Solomon said this week about the deal.