Andy Vabulas has decided to retire as president of I.B.I.S. after leading the Atlanta, Ga.-area reseller for 27 years. His last day will be April 7, which takes him through the Envision conference and presumably, the last, Randy & Andy party run by Vabulas and Randy Forkner of Collins Computing, which has been a looked-for event at the World Wide Partner Conference and the former Convergence. Sonata Software of Bangalore, India, acquired the Dynamics reseller last fall.

MicroAccounting Solutions has added Acumatica's cloud-based offerings to its product line up. That gives the historical Sage reseller two SaaS applications—it also sells Intacct. However, Stuart Blumenthal, VP of cloud solutions for the Dallas, Texas, and Chicago, Ill.-based VAR, said this week the fact Acumatica also offers a desktop version of the accounting software is a big plus.

The switch to the cloud, combined with the impact of currency changes, cut a swath through the QAD revenue line for the year ended January 31. The impact of the stronger dollar chopped $19.9 million from fiscal 2016 revenue. And so revenue fell to $277.9 million for the most recently ended year, down 5.8 percent from $295.1 million for fiscal 2105. On a constant currency basis, revenue was up 1 percent.