The channel for analytics specialist Qlik Technology chipped in 65 percent of license and first-year maintenance revenue for the first quarter ended March 31. The company said during this week's earnings webcast that was up from 57 percent of the same segments a year ago. This is more from systems integrators than resellers, judging from the comments, and the total was affected by a multimillion dollar sale. Overall, Qlik reported a net loss of $30.3 million for the most recently ended period, compared to red ink of $25.9 million in last year's corresponding quarter.

Avalara has named Mehrdad Talaifar as VP of its EMEA operations. Talaifar, based in London, England, is another link in the sales and use tax company's plans for global expansion. Well, they have to spend that $100-million investment somewhere, don't they? Talaifar has strong credentials in the indirect tax area. He was principal of global tax technology services for Ryan from August 2013 until last month. Before that, he was senior director of strategic relations for EMEA for Thomson Reuters from January 2011 through August 2013.

Just what the world needs: another entry into the small business accounting competition. Okay, I'm sure the folks at One Up are fine; it's just there are so many entries in this market someone should publish a field guide. "Ah yes, the yellow-throated accounting package. You can distinguish it..." This one claims to provide-hands free accounting that requires no data entry. The suite includes automatic inventory, CRM and invoicing. The company bills the product as one that is aimed totally at mobile users.