Acuity Business Solutions of York, Pa., has been named as Deltek Vision Partner of the Year. The Reston, Va.-based software company also named Aronson, of Rockville, Md.; as GovCon Partner of the Year. The top picks were publicized along with the names of the company's Premier Partners for both product lines. The Vision Premier Partners for 2016 was the same as for 2015 except that last year, there was one more in the category, AMR Group of Toronto, Ontario, which did not make the cut for 2016.

NetSuite has acquired cloud manufacturing software vendor IQity Solutions' cloud business. Terms of the deal were not disclosed. The purchase brings to NetSuite the IQity Advanced Manufacturing SuiteApp, which is built on NetSuite. Based in Pittsburgh, Pa., IQity, founded in 2007 by president Dave Gustovich, joined the NetSuite SuiteCloud Developer Network in 2012. The companies say they have about 40 joint customers.

Epicor Software has won a sweeping victory in a suit that alleged copyright and property infringement by Alternative Technology Solutions, a consulting firm based in Altos Viejo, Calif. ATS must turn over to Epicor all business and assets it used in servicing Epicor customers, as well as the Alternative brand name, domain names, website and phone numbers. Ouch! ATS and its principal shareholders also must make what were termed substantial payments to Epicor.