Exact, on the brink of going private, wound up 2014 with a good performance in its Specialized Solutions, manufacturing packages the Netherlands-based company sells in the United States. "We had a very good year," CEO Erik van der Meijden said during this weeks' earnings webcast for the year ended December 31. The company said the U.S. products, Macola, JobBoss and Exact, had a good year.

Infor is not conducting its Inforum conference in 2015. Instead, the software vendor is planning a series of Infor days at four different cities in the United States this year. It will return to holding Inforum on July through 13 in New York City in 2016. Chief marketing officer Chip Coyle told attendees at the Infor America Partner Summit in San Antonio that Infor days will focus heavily on training.

Danish reselling and consulting firm Columbus has said it needed to work on its reseller business in the United States. And it has with the acquisition this week of Minneapolis, Minn.-based InterDyn BMI for $11.8 million. BMI is headed by CEO John Hendrickson. On the Columbus side, last fall it reported its U.S. revenues were off double digits. So we can presume buying BMI is part of the response. BMI has 23 offices and 125 employees, revenue of about $25 million and earnings of about $660,000. BMI president Bryan Wilton says his company will maintain its name with a tagline "A Columbus Company".