Nonprofit software vendor Abila, has named four VARS to its President's Circle. The four were announced at the recent, AUDC 2015 (Abila Users and Developers Conference) in Austin, Texas. The software company also presented excellence awards to several nonprofit customers. The four Abila Business Partners picked were ProSoft Solutions of Highland Village, Texas; NonProfit Technologies of North Palm Beach, Fla.; Net@Work of New York City; and JMT Consulting Group of Patterson, N.Y.

New Sage chief executive Stephen Kelley started a blog very quickly after taking his new job in October. You may remember an item in this publication last month that mused about executives who try to write blogs. Many hopefuls fall by the wayside because their jobs are about running companies and few manage to keep churning out copy. Even those further down the line than senior executive positions often wind up with very little current information in company blogs.

You may not have heard of Forterro. If you read the company's LinkedIn page, Forterro was founded in 2012. But that's not the complete story. Dig into the website's history page and you will find this tidbit: "December 2014: Forterro emerges as holding company for Jeeves, SolvAxis, and future M&A". So while Forterro may be three years old, its role shifted in December. Jeeves Information Systems is an ERP company based in Sweden that was acquired by investment firm Battery Ventures in June 2012.