Besides its awards at the Worldwide Partner Conference, Microsoft handed out reseller awards for the United States at the recent Dynamics Kickoff. These have not been as well publicized as the Inner Circle and President's Club this year and that took way more time than it should to get names that are usually easy to find. Anyway, the company presented SMB Partner of the Year awards to four resellers for work in this arena, based on the "highest positive growth in license revenue year over year, provided that such partner is one of the top 3 revenue producing partners in award category."

HighJump has acquired the United Kingdom-based Wesupply, which offers an electronic commerce trading platform. HighJump said this week the deal increase the reach of its TrueCommerce EDI platform to more than 10,000 trading partners and 130,000 trading connections. HighJump described the deal as giving it a "true multi-tenant SaaS solution that enables quick onboarding of new trading partners and rapid time-to-value for community members."

For the first time in a long time, Sage has issued a press release about new features for Sage 50 Accounting—U.S. Edition. (Wasn't Peachtree such a better name?) At center stage of the enhancements are apps for the iPhone and the iPad. Sage also said the application has a streamlined installation and it has added access to chat support throughout the product. In terms of installation, customers are notified there is an update and they click to accept with the product installed in the background.